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.
The Ukrainians say the reason the continue to shell Donetsk is to make the people of DPR feel unsafe and undermine the idea that Russia can protect them.
They are basically trying to send a psychological threat to demoralize: Russia can’t protect you from us, we are going to find you and kill you.
Ukrainian armed forces is a terrorist organization
You'd think after 8 years of trying this tactic and not succeeding they would rethink their strategy, especially now that they're getting owned in Donbass but i guess old habits die hard
Nazi ideology is not very flexible
Waaaiiiit a minute, i thought they were just real into runes and patriotic stuff :thonk:
They’re very into eastern religious symbolism in the form of tattoos
Making people feel unsafe has the material effect of making them cuddle up to whatever power exists that says it will protect them and makes them hate the incoming source of the bombs more and more.
It makes absolutely no sense psychologically. If someone is shooting at you then you grab the nearest person with a gun that says they're your friend and you absolutely do not let go of them. You literally do not care who or what they are too. Imagine you're in a supermarket and a random shooting happens. Some other person with a gun is there, doesn't matter what they are, that person is going to be your best fucking friend until the shooting stops. They could even be a fascist and literally anyone here would find themselves immediately close to that person. The material conditions of that exact scenario would demand it and the material conditions do not give a fuck when push comes to shove.