August 1st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
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August 3rd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
August 5th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 6th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on 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.
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Improved productive development and the associated increase in standards of living should eventually result in their more reactionary social policies withering away as well.
That’s what libs never understand when they attack their enemies as bigoted barbarians in order to justify their imperialist wars against them - the way to get them to progress is to allow and foster the improvement of their economies, education and conditions, and to allow them to do it on their own organically
Sanctions and other economic attacks designed to destroy nations results in increases in reactionary thought, but the libs who claim to want progress keep passing the sanctions while knowing this
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I agree, and the extent that they are progressive is due to their ability to withstand US vassalization and develop internally.
Further US sanctions or a US invasion would devastate the region and bring out the more reactionary demons to the fore, yet the Liberals will still claim they are sanctioning Iran to promote human rights
My point is that the radlibs who pearlclutch over the bigotry or homophobia of US enemies are either useful idiots of reaction-spreading imperialists, or malevolent liars and crypto-reactionaries themselves using whatever convenient argument for demonizing their next feast.
Same goes for Russia. Any radlib who thinks a western color revolution in Russia would be a win for social progress is completely delusional. It would be a Navalny or Zelenskyy puppet using Nazi forces to suppress the old powers. It would be another Maidan, and the reaction would only increase
What particularly shits me is that This is what Liberal theory tells them to do! and they can't, because they don't actually read or believe in it!
They have idealist brain worms. Bad beliefs are because of bad people and bad society. They have to be punished and incentivized and controlled until they have the correct beliefs and are good people.
They don’t really understand how ideas emerge from material conditions. They only pretend to gesture at that in sociology, which is basically diet Marx.