September 12th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
September 13th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
September 14th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
September 16th's mini-update is here, because western journalists are bad at their jobs. Here's the in-thread comment.
Today and tomorrow I'm gonna be doing some prep as I'm moving in a few weeks. The updates will continue as planned on Monday.
:Care-Comrade: to you all.
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the “buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!” people.
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.
Just got a seven day ban on :reddit-logo: for "promoting hate" because I said that things are leaning towards Azerbaijan in US politics because of their influence through money, and that the only reason Armenia hasn't been completely overrun is because of how strong/organized the US Armenian lobby is lol (CTSO also helps obviously). Literally an innocuous comment that I could provide multiple links from mainstream media orgs to back up everything I said. Reveddit says it was removed by :reddit-logo: legal lol.
EDIT: the comment
The needle has been pointing much more towards Azerbaijan. There is simply too much money flowing into DC from the Azeri government used to buy influence. It's way, way more than whatever Democrats complained about Russia doing. The people who fund/arm the Azeris, Turkey and Israel, are US allies. Basically, if Armenians in the US weren't as well organized, all the US politicians and pundits who claim to care about "human rights" would let Azerbaijan do to Armenia what the US has let Saudi Arabia do to Yemen.
Still trying to figure out which part was promoting hate lol. I guess :reddit-logo: must also be getting the Azeri oil money.
Slandering a government backer of :reddit-logo: has to be it (lord knows if it's the Azeris, Saudis, Israel though).
Pretty cool how Reddit allows open fascist subreddits but they ban comments criticizing imperialist nations
Reddit farms out content policy to the Atlantic Council, just like Twitter and Facebook. Their policy for removing content is literally "does this harm imperialism?"
almost certainly the israel part, i have gotten suspended before for criticizing israeli apartheid, pretty sure there’s people in the reddit supermod team who buy into the “antizionism = antisemitism” shtick
There's multiple articles in JPost covering how Israel is the main weapons supplier or Azerbaijan. It's so annoying to get banned for that lol.
Tons of cargo flights happening between Israel and the capital of Azerbaijan currently.
Irans not stupid and sees what’s happening, and has moved its army to the Armenian border. They understand that Azeris are a proxy of Turkey and Israel, their long time enemies in the region.
I hope Armenia signs a defense treaty with Iran and let’s in Iranian peacekeepers. Let’s see Azeris attack once there’s 20,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guard dug into the mountains
Depend on the will of it citizens though, heard the leader is an american puppet. The populace have to drag him out to sign a defense treaty with Iran
:reddit-logo: reveals itself to be fash yet again.
I want to pick one nit: the US is an essential component of the genocidal campaign on South Yemen. The Saudis are using American weapons, planes, intelligence, logistics, etc and would fall apart almost immediately without constant inputs from the US military.
:reddit-logo: is 100% a lost cause. I got banned for pointing out that "ork" is a dehumanizing racial slur that moderators are actively not removing it. Apparently asking the site to moderate hate speech is promoting violence.