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.
Which leaders in this conflict on the side of the West, broadly construed, are actually competent? I won't even add the requirement that they're at all good people, I will allow bigoted and evil people to qualify as competent if they can otherwise run their country, but just, who does the West have who is better than the average person at running their country or organization?
I'm struggling to think of anybody tbh.
Macron is probably the most competent major leader in the west. I will say that Erdogan and Orban have been acting shrewdly and competently, although not necessarily in the interests of the west but in their own nations interests.
Biden has leaky brain. Scholz is a fumbling noob. BoJo is BoJo and barely clinging to power. Poland has ascended to another dimension.
Of course Macron is the most competent, he had an excellent teacher and that's why he married her (well that and the grooming)
Like Ayn Rand and :maxwell: have taught us, girlbosses can be libertarians too
macron and draghi both seem a little more level-headed than the other major leaders. less hawkish (in comparison, anyway), more open to peace talks to end this pointless bloodshed.
France and Germany are carefully threading a needle that doesn't truly put them at odds with anyone and aim to be able to have relations with everyone after the war.
Britain have almost achieved a new British/Polish/Ukrainian power group, but has not materially benefitted Britain in any way other than influence and reshaping the power dynamics of Europe. The British are interested in seeing the EU end entirely though and their planning is built around taking advantage of a post-EU mess.
A few countries have tried to keep to themselves and not get sucked in.
That's all I can think of.
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I can corroborate that since I know an ancient guy who married a granddaughter of a Prussian general/bank owner. Apparently his grandfather-in-law had to flee into hiding since he was an old Prussian aristocrat that fucking hated the nazis since they were upstart thugs that wanted to "hire" him back to fight their wars. And since he went into hiding and was publically anti-nazi, his bank, noble estate, etc. were under threat of confiscation by the state his son - the old guy's father-in-law - went full nazi and doubled down as a loyal party member and ideological crusader to stop the nazis from taking his family's shit since "he assumed the role of family head of the estate and business"
So apparently after the war he was captured by the Americans and stuffed into a reeducation camp (funny how reeducation camps are good when we do it) to be denazified. The old dude said his father-in-law came out of the camp deradicalized, hating the nazis, and loving America and democracy. Said the old fuck knew as much about America and its history as an academic scholar.
He said his father-in-law in post-war Germany still kept his bank and noble estate and world for the West German government as a federal judge until he retired.