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.
your comment is interesting and good and i'm taking it out of context, but this line specifically reads like something you'd see in a brainwormed wapo/nyt article about putin lmao
i do feel like you're giving the russian gov too much credit, like imo it wasn't really their intention to engineer a total rearrangement of the world order and economically collapse western europe with this war, so much as that's just the result of the war dragging on and the west's own sanction regime backfiring. it definitely plays in russia's favour, ofc, but i feel like there was a lot of hubris in the russian gov about the prospects of such a war militarily and the size of the NATO response - they didn't expect the west to cut off their own noses to spite putin, essentially.
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the natural gas situation definitely plays much more in their favour going into next winter than it did in february when we were just coming out of winter, like you said. as someone who lives in northern europe and isn't a millionaire i'm pretty scared about what next winter will look like tbh, like a big winter storm could kill thousands of people in the worst case scenario
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fingers crossed for melenchon, definitely. lots of strikes in the UK coming too. i think eventually the (very minimal, almost irrelevant) anti-war left in europe will make some gains as a result of the economic situation becoming untenable due to war, but the far-right will definitely also capitalise, and to a greater degree. scary, but at least the far-right will always fail eventually due to the severe inherent contradictions of their ideology.
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lula is a centrist
but yea, definitely effective against imperialism (though he did send "peacekeeping" troops to haiti and congo once, but in general he's pretty good in this area)
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his PT ghouls are the kind who make me agree with stalin's characterization of socdems
but he's necessary and the only option atm, especially given how influential we can be in the continent
A lot of the deaths were are going to see will be social murders. The problem for most people it's not going to be whether or not there's any gas in the pipes but rather that it will be too expensive for them to use, especially now that we're enduring heavier inflation than most of us has seen in our lifetimes.
Europe was going through an energy crunch before the invasion, I figure Putin at least considered Europe to be in a delicate enough position to invade Ukraine