Here is July 25th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 26th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 27th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
I have an exhausting day ahead of me today, but I'll post interesting links in the megathread when I find them and when I have the time and wifi signal.
Here is July 29th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is July 30th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates no Sundays.
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.
yeah, primitivism and unironic Una-posting is a cheap ideological cop out. Kazycynski’s manifesto was basically radical centrism and was full of “both sides are wrong” bullshit. you get all the fun of feeling superior and larping as an eco-terrorist without any of the effort of striving for material change.
also, thinking humanity’s big mistake was advancing beyond a primitive lifestyle is a massive case of missing the forest for the trees. even if it were possible (it’s not, unless you’re part Posadist), return to monke would require killing off an overwhelming majority of the population, just so a select few could survive and live miserable lives.
It was flat out fascist in places, the first thing he begins complaining about is personal grievances regarding how he can't call minorities old racist shit anymore, and the most he ever really goes after the right wing "traditionalists" is calling them dumb for embracing progress that will naturally displace and destroy tradition, his main focus throughout most of it when it comes to political sides is attacking the left.
Its also super flawed logic. Primitive man was violent as shit. Violent deaths have decreased significantly as technology has advanced.