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.
Links and Stuff
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.
Has anyone else experienced a noticeable differences when talking to normal people IRL about Ukraine versus on :reddit-logo: ? IRL, my "normie" friends and family are much more open to the idea that Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the east and Crimean have legitimate grievances against the Ukrainian government, and that Ukrainian government made shit worse instead of better in the run-up to both wars.
Beginning to suspect internet posters don't reflect reality
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social media is extremely astroturfed by both private think tanks and government agencies, desperately trying to wag the dog of public opinion
I mean, yeah, I figured that's true to some extent, but I was wondering if other people have experienced that (more openness to alternative narratives IRL), as well. Also, I'm sure there's some astroturfing going on, but also reddit seems to attract these types Disneyfied NAFO types.
I don't know anybody in real life who cares about Ukraine, for what it's worth. It's just sicko social media liberals frothing at the mouth about it, as far as I can tell
I don't know if anyone on my FB ever posted anything about it once the initial wave of ukraine theme'd profile pics stopped.
Real life: The war is still going on?
Reddit: WIR WOLLEN DEN TOTALEN KRIEG
People I've talked to irl about it mostly just don't care and want life here in the US to suck a bit less. Most of them also definitely don't believe the media spin that Ukraine is winning, and they seem understandably resentful that our government keeps giving Ukraine money and weapons instead of addressing trouble at home.
My experience is that no one even knew there was a civil war. In fact, I'm insane for saying there was.
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Nope, IRL, people are sheepishly admitting that they’d rather support Ukrainian Nazis than let Russia win and how Putin invaded because he has cancer
Exact same shit as Reddit
But most of my friends are also neoliberal/fascist tech bros who all openly and shamelessly admit to browsing Reddit frontpage a lot so...