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.
24 feb was for me what you call a great day. But now that Putin has grown soft, I begin to lose the trust I had placed in him to strangle and pull down the so-called US colossus, that is, the greatest exponent of capitalism. They are afraid of bringing down America, they are afraid because they know that with it, the whole capitalist system will collapse. I still hope that Putin will not renounce the struggle, and will go all the way, to the extreme consequences.
The great and authentic revolutionaries of the world are two: Putin and Lukashenko. But Putins shows that he has always been against the plutocracy and against the democracies, which paralyze the life of nations.
Xi Jingping, allying himself with Kyiv and Washington, has betrayed the cause of the proletariat. Moreover, I can say that on this I agree with Putin, when he says, as he did in his speech from this February, that if there is a man who desperately wanted the war, who first prepared it and then instigated it, it is the American president. From my point of view, however, I clarify that Biden is nothing but the exponent of supercapitalism that aims at the conquest of a totalitarian imperialism.
If Putin can make yield the odious powers of EU and America, while making thus precarious the capitalist world balance, long live the butcher Putin who works in spite of himself to create the conditions of the proletarian world revolution :bordiga-despair:
Who said this
https://libcom.org/forums/history/bordiga-leninist-who-put-his-hopes-axis-27122017
Is the implication here that Putin is Hitler and Lukashenko is Mussolini? Haven't seen that point been made before, I'll go think on it for a while
It's interesting:Hitler was fighting the world superpower and obviously :ukkk:. In a lot of ways WW2 did bring and end to the British empire, But the war itself brought about terrible things like the Holocaust. And capitalism did not end, obviously.
Eventhough it is extremely far-fetched to compare Putin to Hitler, I think it is true that Russia, although fighting against actual fascists and the western world order, is itself pretty fucking far right and not at all that dissimilar from Ukraine. It is just that, due to the particularities of history, Ukraine's far right got channelled through NATO (and by extension Nazi) ideology.
It also seems evident to me that this war has already strengthened the position of the far right within Russia. Certainly there will be a lot of traumatised men with fighting experience and grievences, no matter how this conflict ends. Just like in the rest of the Western world, there's no genuine leftwing movement in Russia that can fill the gap.
At the end of the day, the Western world order has to fall for a better world to emerge and it is inevitable that it will collapse under its own contradictions. But that doesn't mean that any step in that process is a step towards a better world and something to be cheered for. It is just history happening that will change the world.
The course of history is unpredictable. It remains odd to me to actively cheer for a far right country in its fight against other far right countries because it is accelerating what is already inevitable. Imo, if a better world emerges it is not at all clear that this will be due to the intent and actions of Putin or Russia, rather than the larger course of history.
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