Links and Stuff
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.
Yesterday's discussion post.
Americans are mostly idiots that are programmed to just consume. So not surprising
Then again, we're kind of guilty of the same thing. More people where I live stay on top of politics effecting our department but the knowledge of what goes on at the central level drops significantly unless the President is going through yet another scandal.
The internet greatly distorts our perceptions of how many people actually care about all this.
Which makes the whole "We mustn't let the world forget about Ukraine! Putin's strategy is to make people stop caring about it or actively angry about it until the sanctions are lifted!" thing by journalists so funny. Like, dude, 90%+ of people forgot about Ukraine about two weeks after it started. They either outright don't give a single shit either way because they're too busy with their own lives, or they're vaguely pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia but they aren't like, informed about current events there aside from the odd glimpse at a headline in the news as they proceed to scroll down to look at an article about the latest culture war fad.
We, along with the redditors and bluechecks (and even they don't really care anymore, though they're more pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia than your average dude on the street) are the only people who care enough to have some idea of what Russia and Ukraine are currently doing. We're the weirdos. I would wager that the number of people in the world outside of Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia who could tell you anything at all about the war right now (even if it's just "Russia is attacking Severodonetsk" or even "Russia is fighting in the Donbass" is easily less than 1%.
I keep catching myself, as an USAmerican, thinking that the war in Ukraine only started 2 weeks ago. Its weird and I don't like it.