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.
Lowest in Biden's presidency so far lmao.
Hate it when I accidentally destroy my country's economy and greatly accelerate the downfall of a global empire that lasted a century because I wanted to defend a Nazi-infested country from an army that they're gonna lose to anyway
I totally believe the Biden regime are fools, but someone is looking at the longer time frame who knows what they are doing. The US economy has been fucked for years, now they are attempting a controlled burn off, maybe trying to drive us down into "too big to fail" zone again since it worked out so well for them the last time, while also boosting the MIC infrastructure. The 1% wouldn't ignore increasing social unrest, so pushing the working class toward desperation, food and housing insecurity, or even a tipping point while the militarized police are strong and well funded works to their advantage. I'm just spitballing and probably bazinga brained today, whatever the angle the working class is going to get fucked.
No one is looking at them longer time frame.
lobbyists, .1% oligarchs, warhawks, defense contractors, high level spooks, certainly are even if the plan is peace out and turn the US into a prison colony
What's the end game for a empire core that is a prison colony?
Even if this is the case and your right. They're still idiots evil idiots that don't understand what's Infront of them. Russia and China will pass us and we will just become more of a dump than we already are. The profits will dry up. The unipolar we do what we want and profit years are over. And even the powerful are idiots if they don't recognize this. Even if they get a short term gain. Cuz that's all that's left for the usa right now. Is short sighted greed.
That isn't the end game, that is the path of least resistance from where we are now at this stage of collapse. How can they not yet understand that China will pass the US, since it already has by many metrics. I'm not so sure as communists on the internet we have a better grasp of these geopolitics than those who have active influence. I think they are just dishonest and propaganda is an ingrained way of thinking and conveying information. Certainly advantages from a de-wormed perspective, but still a somewhat dangerous assumption they are too stupid to recognize reality when a plausible scenario is they simply don't give a shit about the relative success of the US anymore as long as profits continue to be extracted elsewhere, and they can go live anywhere they want and simply transfer their wealth to another economy at the right time. They are planning for the inevitable collapse. My question is who is pulling for a soft landing, vs who want's to pull the rug and let the boots fall domestically. We see continuous MIC packages and militarized police budget increases, so I'm not optimistic.
I don't doubt that many in the ruling class still believe in the empire, and have plans to use genocidal regime change tactics to maintain hegemony, but I assure you it's not only leftists who understand those days are over. The "long time frame" I refer to is those who prefer a smooth transition from unipolarity and have a less rabid outlook, although it's more satisfying to believe everyone except us is truly deranged. I also have no doubt that some powerful people are death cultists and believe the only alternative is pushing us toward a MAD situation with Russia and China, I think we are witnessing this struggle now.