August 29th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 30th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 31st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
Alright, I guess it's fucking "SeventyTwoTrillion gets sick all the time" season. It isn't coronavirus again (would be super unlucky if it was, lmao) but I am getting headaches and other symptoms which are not optimal conditions for collecting articles and doing media analysis (AKA shouting at journalists).
Might be a 3-update week, we'll see if I feel any more functional tomorrow. Apologies for people who like the updates. I'll either be back tomorrow or on Monday.
No updates on Sundays. Updates will resume tomorrow, provided that the CIA doesn't point their illness gun at me again.
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.
Fighting has begun in Baghdad, I believe between two Shia factions.
America is airlifting the embassy personnel out, as is tradition.
Just wanted to quickly provide an Iraqi perspective. No one is based here and there's no one to support. It's a shia vs shia battle that has been brewing for almost 30 years and has been postponed multiple times. Sadrists are a unique phenomenon in Shia Islam and are to some extent a cult that fully revolves around the Al Sadr family and they're almost worshipped to a worrying degree by their supporters from an Islamic perspective. Anti-Sadrist Shia parties are uncomfortably close to Iran on the other hand and they represent the largest reactionary and conservative elements of society despite their anti-American stance. Both sides are armed to the teeth and we're on the verge of full on civil war at this point. This war is mainly fueled up by the government formation process that drastically failed during the past year. Sadrists allied with Sunnis and Kurds to create the largest bloc, but the other side completely stopped cooperating and let things reach a complete deadend. Muqtada Al Sadr got pissed and decided to instead let his supporters protest in the streets to push through his government. Things finally reached boiling point today after the pro-Sadrist religious establishment broke the final connection to Sadr and basically called him a loser, so his supporters got crazy. The armed forces and pro-Iran militias responded with unnecessary force and look where we are now, life fucking sucks. My relatives in Baghdad are all fine, but it's an extremely tense situation.
Thank you for the extra detail, comrade.
Wonder if last helicopter out of Saigon would make for a good emote?
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