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.
Problem is, China has been talking big on Taiwan for decades and the US always calls them on their bluff. China does not rouse to violence easily, but they need to actually put their money where their mouth is the next time the US oversteps its bounds.
I’m talking the next time they send a bunch of senators to the island China needs to arrest them or shoot down their plane
there is a lot of room for china to get tough without direct Violence ... i would just do a Naval Blockade ..." Threat to our national security forcing us to demand that every Ship heading or leaving Taiwan will first have to dock for inspection in Mainland China ...
Taiwan is not a security threat to China though?
US presence on Taiwan is though.
it would be so incredible if china just sent a fighter wing to intercept a plane carrying american politicians bound for taiwan and then escorted them under threat of live fire to the mainland and arrested them
:pog-fish:
Getting serious wouldn’t even require such drastic action. Just embargo the island Cuba style and see how the west likes having no chips
People here don't seem to understand that China is not an imperialist rogue state, they have focused heavily on diplomatic solutions since a long time and as long as Taiwan doesn't pull some Ukraine shit, China will probably just keep the status quo.
This is true. Irl there is a high chance Taiwan willingly rejoins the PRC some time down the road, as the economic benefits would just be too great to ignore
I'm Taiwanese-American and I live in Taiwan. There's 0% chance of that happening. Taiwan already does a ton of trade with China.
liberal faction still too powerful, xi needs to take a leaf out of putin's book and minecraft some motherfuckers but i don't think he's got it in him
like, it's been nice to see his leftward shift but i get the feeling that bo xilai woulda jumped on taiwan as soon as the SMO kicked off, to say nothing of mao himself
well that's one way to get the nukes flying :posadist-nuke: