Here is November 7th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is November 8th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
I strategically retreated from doing an update on Wednesday (and I always perform tactical update withdrawals on Thursdays and Sundays) so this next one covers a bit from those two days.
Here is November 11th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
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.
I read it when it came out a while ago, and I pretty much agree. Most of the things they're pointing out, I'm like "yeah, seems like a reasonable critique and I hope the CPC takes it to heart and kicks the local governments ass when they've misused their authority", but also, show me a country that doesn't do that exact same thing, only much worse. I mean, fuck, here in Denmark, cops routinely put people in jail, pre-trial, for anywhere from 3x24 hours to 4 weeks to indefinitely. There is literally no upper bound on pre-trial detention, as long as it's less than the sentence for what you're accused of. People have been in jail for years without ever being convicted, sometimes just because of waiting times at the city courts.
So yeah we know we have arbitrary, vague, long-term detention that can include isolation (which is torture), in a Western Democracy (tm), but hey, look over there at the sneaky asiatics!
:big-cool:
And instead of admitting they couldn't make a case, the prosecution will offer time served if you plead guilty. Still claiming that you're innocent? Well, then we'll need another four weeks of pre-trial detention to figure out what to do next. Maybe you'll want to relieve your guilty conscience by then?
The 90+ % convinction rates has nothing to do with this though, they're all about cops and prosecutors being really good at solving crime. And by the way, there's a judge rubber-stamping pre-trial detention so it's impossible to abuse.