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.
Wake up Babe! It's time for your daily Nazi apologia thread!
https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/vbow77/a_german_soldier_returns_home_only_to_find_his/
You would never see Redditors writing walls of text empathizing with the plight of Chinese soldiers in WW2 or Iraqi soldiers and putting themselves in their shoes and coming up with pithy quotes of remorse and profound sadness. They only do this for Nazis and reactionaries.
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They justify it to themselves as “nuance” and playing devils advocate, which in their mind makes them better than those petty, irrational emotional people who take a side.
Yet they oddly only do this for white colonialist nations and their agents. You never ever see them playing devils advocate for soldiers of the DPRK in the Korean War, or Iranian Revolutionary Guard, or Algerian nationalists.
In 50 years, on whatever has replaced Reddit by then:
Devastating: Israeli returns to one of his houses in the West Bank to find his Palestinian child slaves missing
Tfw you start a global war of extermination and it doesn't go as planned
In a similar vein, /r/Ukraine had a thread about hunting the "collaborator, traitor" Kirill Stremousov who was interviewed by PL the other day. I reported it for encouring violence but just got the "nope, we checked and it's not violent" from :reddit-logo: admins :reddit-cool:
He doesn't seem like a particularly good guy but damn
Idly wishing COVID had gotten more politicians, on the other hand, merits a permanent suspension. :reddit-logo: :thumb-cop:
/r/historyporn is one of the absolute worst subs for this sort of shit
One of those places that respects the troops no matter which troops (Except for communists, Russians and revolutionaries of course)