I have returned! Here is July 4th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 5th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 6th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No update today, I'm frantically going through all of my previous social media accounts to delete any negative mention of Assad.
Here is July 9th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Sundays. Aside from this reminder: Stalin, and the brave Soviet people commanded by him, saved the world from fascism.
Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week's discussion post.
U.S. President Joe Biden presented the idea of an oil price cap to the rest of the G-7 leaders over the weekend of June 25 and 26 and his counterparts agreed to look at how to do it... German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the idea was very ambitious and needed a “lot of work” before becoming reality.
Brandon mentions a half-baked, baby-brained idea that will not work and all the other G-7 leaders just have to nod and say "that's interesting" like I do when my kid tells me she wants to be a fire truck when she grows up.
It was like that during the Democrat debates, Biden would just literally spout nonsense and all the other candidates would go :side-eye-1: :side-eye-2: and then go on like nothing happened, it's the most "collapsing Empire" shit ever.
“You gotta put the record player on for the kids” I believe was part of his actual answer to some sort of education policy question lmao
For an instructive historical analogy, consider how the Western nations never recognized the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states — maintaining that position for half a century until those nations could work themselves free of Moscow after the Cold War.
I hate when libs bring this up without mentioning the historical context - that the Baltics were a part of Russia going back to the 18th century and they were only separated after WW1 - so just like 20 years before 1940. Not saying this re-annexation was totally OK but libs completely ignore this and once again act like all of world history started in 1939.
Yep, same with Poland. Obviously Germany had part before too, but understanding the historical context is important.
People just want big bad ebil villains who do things evilly, with no investigation. So yes, they can be right they nazis are bad, but often vaguely because they're "evil" (they are) but without understanding where they came from and why, you then fail to understand your enemy, and the forces behind them and their present day analogs, allowing them the leeway that should have been denied them after the horrors they unleashed.
And then you might not understand that Nazi Germany's mortal enemy was the Soviet Union, so where does that leave you when sides are forming presently? Weak or tacitly helping fascists.
Learn your history! I shout on hexbear
Liberals know so little of history that they will honestly think it is "ironic" that the USSR and Nazi Germany ended up as enemies since they were both ebil totalitarians. It's like talking about history with a golden retriever.
Truly. It wasn't an alliance, but if someone needs to look at two countries invading the same country at once I get why, but not knowing the reasoning effectively makes their argument moot. Not to mention Poland and Germany invading czechoslovskia together a year prior, a liberals brain would melt. So the invasion of Poland as cynical ploy to gain a buffer from territory that had been theirs 20 years prior is more or less what it was. Had the Polish-Soviet war gone differently, then the USSR and nazis would have shared a border and I'm sure barbarossa would've happened before invading France, making liberals at the time soy face and libs today still so confounded as why the 2 fought since they both choose the evil government type.
I do wonder how that alt history would play out
When every history book in the US history course is fabricated or skips a tons of portion, you know they are not gonna learn the critical thinking and the event that led to the war, or how the leaders think. What they know is amerikkka is good, Nazi and USSR is ebil. They don't even know who inspire the Nazi.
My Golden fully supports the Socialist struggle to liberate the people of the world from the clutches of Capitalism.
What you have posted is anti-Golden Retriever propaganda
Exactly. In fact poland exsisting was a joke. Father Ubu from the classic play ubu roi was king of poland and aragon. Implying he was not in fact a king.
As we all know, every nation-state we like has been there since time immemorial, and every nation-state we hate — especially those black and brown ones — are but imagined constructs!
I've noticed an uptick of this so I'm going to do a public shaming post without mentioning names so you can stop being a meganerd without being called out
If you finish every comment you make with a catchphrase, no matter what it is, you're coming off with the same vibes as 7DeadlyFetishes, and the "more over, ICE must be Abolished" twitter nerd.
Don't be that dweeb.
Idk I think its funny in a post irony kind of way
Smoke em if you got em
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Oh Gods, it's spreading! I blame you @Sandinband for teaching them this
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Welcome back king
Let's talk about the recent military gains by Russia and future battles. Now in hindsight and after the liberation of the LPR, it's fair to say that the Battle of Popasna was the most decisive battle of the war so far. The Ukrainian forces experienced a rapid collapse across the whole LPR front directly after losing Popasna. The last coherent defence by Ukrainian forces was in the early stage of the Severodonetsk battle, but the pace of collapse kept quickly accelerating until Lysychansk fell in just a week.
Now it's fully expected by everyone that the DPR will be the next target for liberation. The DPR front is also extremely fortified by Ukrainian forces, so I expect that Russian progress towards Sloviansk and Bakhmut to be slow at first. In the end, I don't see a scenario where the DPR isn't completely liberated, but the only questions are when and with how many losses in personnel.
The stage after the Donbass will be the most interesting though and will test the Russian resolve to incorporate more territory. Most other cities are increasingly hostile to Russian presence the further you go from the Donbass. At the same time, it seems almost irresponsible to not go for Zaporozhye City and possibly even Kharkiv considering Russian gains in both Oblasts already. The geography of Nikolaev Oblast is also perfect for the Russians, the flat grasslands combined with lack of many bigger settlements makes it a very reasonable target and has to be approached if Vlad is thinking about Odessa at some point.
You're analysis is sound. I think the telling thing will be how quickly Seversk falls. If it goes in the next 72 hours the resulting Bakhmut salient would be hard to hold despite the fortifications there. If not, then they may have time to fortify their second line, retreat to it in order, and recover combat ability, though they had to have lost a lot of equipment in the fall.
Also the Russian advances toward Slovansk and on the Southern flank have got to be making the Ukranians nervous. They've got a lot of frontline they are too thinly spread on and the Russians have finally learned to concentrate forces without logistical issues.
The two most logical scales: one that takes up the entire image so that you aren't sure of the actual scale, and one that displays the LPR's position in the Milky Way galaxy
Macron says he doesn’t want to ‘annihilate’ Russia RT
Filmed on a train back from Kiev last month, Macron explained that talking to Putin is necessary to prevent the conflict in Ukraine from becoming a wider war. Describing “Anglo Saxon” leaders as pushing the message that “we must annihilate Russia, weaken it permanently,” Macron said that his goal is instead to “help Ukraine to win,” and “not to fight against Russia, let alone annihilate it.”
I wouldn't worry too much about it, dude.
Highly critical support to Macron trying to be the adult in a room of warmongering lemmings desperate to ruin their own countries.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/vspw2g/footage_of_russian_soldier_destroying_ukrainian/
Footage of Russian soldier destroying Ukrainian S300 system
Now here's the Syrian War shit you know and love. A guy shooting a missile with a machine gun from like 20m away. What the fuck.
Pfft, whatever. I did that in ARMA just the other day it's not that special.
God I need to play Takistan Life again. So many hours spent fucking with weird German teenagers roleplaying as cops.
I'm almost certain that's a PKM which fires the same 7.62x54mm rounds as their sniper rifles.
ASB is reporting that Sweden is refusing to extradite the Kurds to Turkey, which would therefore cause Erdogan to refuse to agree to let both countries join. If true - lol. Lmao, even.
What did the Swedes expect? That Erdogan would be stupid enough to let them in before receiving his payment in Kurdish blood?
So Finns agreed to make their sacrifice of Kurds, but then Sweden took the high road? So now Finland pissed off Russia, pissed off Turkey, pissed off the Kurds and didn’t even get into NATO??
Lol. Lmao even if true
“Entire industries are in danger of collapsing permanently because of the gas bottlenecks: aluminum, glass, the chemical industry,” Fahimi, the head of the German Federation of Trade Unions, told Bild am Sonntag. “Such a collapse would have massive consequences for the entire economy and jobs in Germany.”
:sicko-blur: :sicko-blur: :sicko-blur: :sicko-blur: :sicko-blur:
Germany is fucked. Either capitulate or these industries will NEVER recover, when they shut down they shut down permanently and it will take an absolutely massive amount of effort to build new ones.
Germany will not be friends with America for much longer.
Don’t worry. When Steiner brings in more gas, we’ll all be relieved!
Thank god the West hasn’t been experiencing a brain drain of skilled workers into the finanacial sector becoming professional astrologists and alchemically creating new types of mortgage scams and thus destroy the lives of people every ten years or so.
I've always been a fan of that quote (I'm paraphrasing) that's like "I'm less impressed by Einstein's genius than I am horrified that thousands of the same intellect have been condemned to die in squalor." (maybe some good brained hexbear recognizes it and can chime in with the author).
But I'm realizing that framing the issue as "poor people can be smart" fell short in the brains of liberals because they've been conditioned to view poor people as easily-tricked rubes. If instead you bring up all the wasted effort expended by brilliant people in tons of useless or damaging industries (finance, corporate law, energy, advertising, etc.), you can cut into the insistence that capitalism is the most efficient and beneficial system available.
Hahahaha Australia is sending Ukraine 100 million dollars
Gotta put that extra profit from grain prices somewhere useless, right?
Guy on twitter telling me, without a shred of irony, "Russia's problem is that they don't have a real economy. Except for natural resources and the weapons industry there's not a lot there."
Motherfucker I am losing my mind
