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.
Biden tries to climb down from Ukraine ledge
How do regular Russians feel about the war in Ukraine?
As if most of the wars that have been carried out by America and Friends haven't been justified by similar, delusional platitudes. How many people thought that the purpose of the war in Afghanistan was to bring freedom and democracy to the people living there, once Bin Laden was dead and the Taliban mostly purged? How did that end?
I would say that any war that is carried out explicitly against fascism and fascists has the best chance of actually being a "war for peace". Russia's war on Ukraine isn't really that because they aren't coming at it from any kind of socialist revolutionary standpoint, but it's not quite as oxymoronic as this author thinks it is. I'm uncomfortable with saying that any war (aside from class war) is "justifiable" because you tend to twist yourselves into knots about the value of human life and long-term oppression vs short-term injury and death and so on, but on that murky scale, I think that this war is more justified than the US invasion of Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Vietnam, or Korea, or any other country that we've invaded. Again, that's not to say that it's "moral" or "good" or any other subjective measure that depends on what you personally value, just that anybody who says that Russia invading Ukraine is abhorrent and unjustifiable and then if asked if the invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, or a future invasion of Iran or China, was or would be justified, starts stammering and stuttering about "Well, you've gotta respect the international rules based order... those countries are corrupt autocracies... human rights violations... " then they're a ridiculous fucking clown.
First article is very good. Second one has some serious brainworms
Yeah nothing to do with Ukrainian Maidan, 8 years of ethnic persecution, NATO expansion, Russian geopolitical interests. It’s just Putin and his friends are crazy
second article is from some american thinktank so no surprises it's brainwormed
2nd one was written by a person with compost for brains.