Here is September 30th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is October 1st's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Next week's thread is here!
New and Improved!
I have decided to permanently ditch NYT, Washington Post, WSJ, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, and Politico. I am replacing their analysis with better analysis. Thus, the Dipshittery section is being retired. I've spent the last seven months either laughing or raising my blood pressure at the truly ghoulish shit that comes out of these places and I no longer have the patience for them.
There are a few news sites that I am mentally referring to the "thin fucking ice" sites, such as the BBC, CNN, SCMP, and Euronews. They will stay. For now. But I don't like them.
Additionally, there are some mainstream sites that I think ultimately provide more good than harm to the updates: such as Reuters, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and some of the foreign-but-not-explicitly-left news sites from abroad. These will be kept.
Today's update includes only news and analysis from the non-MSM side of my feed. That's simply because this is what they've put out in the last week or so and I don't have time today to also do the MSM side. Tomorrow, once I'm back to only taking stuff from the last 24 hours, the updates will be in their true form.
I've also made some changes to the format of the updates themselves, to accommodate this new paradigm. Hopefully it works out. I may play around with the sizes of headers, and properly reintroduce spoiler tags so it's more of a "series of headlines" feel rather than a wall of text - the attraction of the updates and summaries, at least in my mind, is that you DON'T have to read an entire newspaper or equivalent. You can just skim through for ten minutes before you start work or your 14-hour long Hearts of Iron session - the two things that Hexbear users seem to do - and still probably be better informed about the world than your friends and family.
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.
Honestly, India not supporting the UN resolution and instead abstaining is pretty significant, as I think they're one of the less committed of the major countries in the new anti-West bloc.
Both Modi and Erdogan strike me as fairly unprincipled people who are willing to play both sides to their own advantage, but while Erdogan does that by quickly dashing between sides like an excited puppy, one week expressing support for Ukraine and then another for Russia, Modi seems to instead do that by patiently walking the tightrope between the West and Russia/China. Of course, if a country isn't with the US, they're against it, and thus India is being slowly funneled towards the East. I'm not sure what the exact state of Indian electoral politics is, nor the exact revolutionary potential of the country, but it would be very exciting to see India under even socdem rule, if not explicitly socialist or communist.
It's not about being unprincipled, the non-alignment policy goes all the way back to Nehru. In practice, India has been closer to Russia though. The Soviets intercepted aircraft carriers sent by USA and UK to attack India during 1971 war, for example.
Eh, I don't agree. Being pro-China would be political suicide, I don't see this happening unless the West monumentally fucks up diplomatic relations. Despite the media uproar, they didn't sanction India for buying Russian gas.
Perhaps "towards Russia" is a better way of putting it - Indian corporations are coming in to fill some of the gaps left by Western corporations that leave, for example.
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