With it being overwhelmingly likely that Ukraine will receive Germany's Leopard tanks (whether from Germany itself or Poland), German tanks once again roll into battle against Russian forces after nearly a century.

Can the Leopard succeed against the Russian army where it failed in Syria? We'll find out soon enough.

Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Here is the archive of important pieces of analysis from throughout the war that we've collected.

January 23rd's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

January 25th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

January 27th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

January 28th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

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. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.

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. Beware of chuddery.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are fairly brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. The Duran, of which he co-hosts, is where the chuddery really begins to spill out.

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 ~ Now rebranded as Battlefield Insights, they do infrequent posts on the conflict.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.

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 ~ One of the really big pro-Russian (except when they're being pessismistic, which is often) telegram channels focussing on the war. 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. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

Any Western media outlet that is even vaguely liberal (and quite a few conservative ones too).

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.

  • Lester_Peterson [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Translated excerpts from a Czech news article

    “Any country that would supply Leopard 2s to Ukraine is being offered U.S. tanks from its own inventory & a long-term industrial partnership as a substitute according to German industrial circles.

    "All countries sending Leos to Ukraine will be lost to the German tank industry”

    Countries sending Ukraine their Leopards will be giving up an effective and made in the EU tanks which they are trained on. In exchange they will receive mothballed Abrams tanks for "free" but be reliant on the U.S for the very massively more expensive servicing, parts, upgrades, and future purchases which the tank requires.

    There's a reason why before last year there was not a single European country operating the Abrams, it's obscenely maintenance intensive, makes little sense for their environment, and ensures their dependency on the United States Military Industrial Complex. But Dark Brandon has done what would have been impossible under Trump and now has European Liberals begging to increase their dependency on the United States, all the while calling any opposing voices a "Putin puppet."

    Death to Europe and all that, but it's maddening seeing how fucking naive and geopolitcally stupid European leadership has been since February.

    It's like a Marvel movie where the good guys have to be draindead imbeciles for the bad guys plan to work :soypoint-1:

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      But Dark Brandon has done what would have been impossible under Trump and now has European Liberals begging to increase their dependency on the United States, all the while calling any opposing voices a “Putin puppet.”

      Death to Europe and all that, but it’s maddening seeing how fucking naive and geopolitcally stupid European leadership has been since February.

      The European elite has been subsumed by US financial capital. They're increasingly disconnected from the popular base (which, incidentally, is why we're seeing a rash of socialist and reactionary movements popping off all across Europe) and more bound up in their annual Davos summits than any getting-yelled-at constituency session at home.

      European Leadership might as well be a different species than the European proletariat. Much like their American peers, they've become entirely disassociated from one another.

    • Zo1db3rg [comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      I would not necessarily call them stupid in their actions. They are doing exactly as their masters tell them. They are fucking themselves for the sake of their US handlers. Thats all this has ever been. As the US empire begins to crumble they will cannibalize their vassals. So while they may be stupid in allowing themselves to be puppeteered in such a way, in the end the US holds the leash and the dogs must obey.

    • jackmarxist [any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      This is the reason why China banning American social media was a great decision. Europe is just facing natural consequences.

      It's kinda scary seeing a continent becoming puppets of America just because of propaganda.

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      The sons of fail sons so inbred on their own myths that they can't even manage a sense of self-preservation.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        The people going to NATO summits are going to be fine. They're not going to fear for their livelihoods or freeze or starve or die in a trench for no good reason. At worst they will loose an election to somebody with identical politics and keep their comfy lifestyles as opposition politicians. Their self-preservation is as secure as they could ever want, it is just that they are not concerned with preserving the rest of us.

    • FortifiedAttack [any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Germany getting reamed so hard they'll be playing the Stars and Stripes fart orchestra soon.