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.
I lowkey think European leaders are kind of in a war with the media at this point. Several leaders have shown cracks in their warmongering, but immediately the media jumps on them because "PUTIN IS HITLER" still gets all the clicks and a leader saying that we should maybe, perhaps not starve to death is political suicide right now.
My impression here in Germany is that Scholz is clearly not so sure about the war anymore, but the media is still fully on board the "Putler genocide Zelensky wholesome 100 ghost of kyiv heroic azov" train. And everyone is buying it hook, line and sinker.
Media power in this situation is waning. Interest in “Ukraine” on Google trends is down 99%. Only weirdos like us and blue checks care anymore. Material political concerns are growing more powerful while the idealist media warmongering is waning. There will be a breaking point where European leaders will start to break rank and implement necessary policies for their populations, or they will be replaced by nationalists who will
Interest in Europe is waning but it's at a much, much slower pace than in the US. We still have actual Ukrainians staying here as refugees. Here in Germany there's only one country separating us from the war. Additionally, our brains and attention spans aren't quite as fried as those of Americans.
I do think that eventually interest will have declined enough that politicians can quietly try to negotiate with Russia, but we are nowhere near that point. The war still dominates the media here.
As soon as millions are freezing the nationalists will get into power on a platform of isolationism and peace
Climate change has made winters in almost all of europe much more bearable. There is no scenario where "millions will freeze" when there are probably like a dozen below zero days in the whole winter. Also Germany and France just had big national elections so the nationalists will be unable to capitalize for month unless you somehow foresee a breakdown of civil society. And the last elections in Germany all had the nationalists lose compared to former years.
I mean really cold by freezing, not freezing to death lol
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Honestly, the European leaders should be thanking their lucky stars they have nukes and NATO to protect them. Before this war if you'd have asked me who would win a conventional war with the West vs Russia then I would have immediately thought that Russia gets steamrolled, but honestly I'm not so sure anymore. The European militaries genuinely seem to have massively decayed over the last few decades. And considering the technological disparities; Russia with like, 100 hypersonic missiles, striking the 100 most important EU + NATO positions and airfields, would have a colossal impact. Russia probably still loses in the long run but man, that's a difficult war for the West to win.
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