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Well, Prigozhin gets to live in Belarus instead of being on the wrong end of an Iskander, Wagner forces (in Ukraine at least) will probably get integrated into the Russian military, and SHOOOOIIGUUU and GEERRASSIMOOVV get to keep their jobs. Putin looks like a weak leader but at least things are intact. Also, the front in Ukraine hasn't broken down or anything.

I imagine a ton of things have happened behind the scenes that we either will never know about or will only slowly come to know about in the future.

About as happy an ending to the Wagner saga as we could hope for given the nature and historical horror stories of mercs. Or is it the end...? (Yes. Hopefully.)

And I have it on good authority that Stalin is currently looking down on this situation from heaven and incessantly swearing at these motherfuckers for what they've done to his country.

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.

This week's first and only update is here, because I am on my regularly scheduled week-long break that I forgot about until now given all that's going on. Next update will be next Wednesday.

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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 decent analysis. Avoid the comment section.

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 relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the warzone.

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 ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist (but still quite reactionary in terms of gender and sexuality and race, so beware). If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.

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

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

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Another big Russian commentator.

https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia's army.

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

Almost every Western media outlet.

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.

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Germany’s failure to attract business investment ‘alarming’, say economists

      Germany’s ability to attract business investment suffered an “alarming” decline last year, when more than €135bn of foreign direct investment flowed out of the country and only €10.5bn came in, according to a leading economic institute.

      The Cologne-based German Economic Institute said the gap between outbound investments by German companies and business investment into the country in 2022 was the largest on record, based on data from the OECD.

      “The investment conditions in Germany had recently deteriorated again due to high energy prices and the increasing shortage of skilled workers,” said Christian Rusche, an economist at the GEI.

      The report said 70 per cent of the outbound investment by German companies went to other European countries, adding that this made it “particularly alarming that investments by European neighbours have collapsed”.

      The figures come as the US offers large subsidies to tempt investment from companies in various sectors, including electric vehicles and renewable energy, via the Inflation Reduction Act, which the researchers said had accelerated the outflows of investment from Germany.

      Germany has seen a few notable exceptions to the trend. US chipmaker Intel last year announced plans to build a semiconductor fabrication plant in Magdeburg, citing Germany’s “top talent [and] superb infrastructure”.

      But the plans were delayed as the US chip company found itself locked in tough negotiations with the German government. Intel demanded nearly €6bn more in subsidies because of rising energy costs and inflation.

      Berlin finally yielded, pledging a total of €10bn, or roughly a third of what Intel has committed to spend on the plant, highlighting how governments are increasingly dipping into taxpayers’ money to attract foreign direct investment. The deal will be the largest foreign direct investment into Germany.

      Germany’s sprawling manufacturing sector has been suffering from a downturn in recent months, hit by the sharp increase in energy prices after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, as well as falling orders, weak export growth, and loss of market share for electric cars.

      Tangentially related article

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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        1 year ago

        I don't quite think this was the thing but it's still an interesting read, thanks for sharing!

    • PissWarlock [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      I recall an an article being posted here that mentioned industry leaving. I don't recall more, but it was probably related to energy prices.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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        1 year ago

        I recall something about the krauts complaining about high energy prices because of something other than the fact they won't buy fuel from Russia, like something about people using too much power to game is threatening to shut down German industry or something absurd