Here is July 11th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is the update for July 12th and 13th! TLDR? Here's the summary.
News update for July 14th: I passed my exam! So I'm going out to celebrate today. Also, it looks like Japan is giving up on pretending it's a democracy, America is on its knees begging to invade Iran, and Moon of Alabama has an update on the current macro state of the war.
Here is the update for July 15th! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is the update for July 16th! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Sundays.
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.
Last week's discussion post.
Previously I thought the claims that Russia would intentionally cut off gas permanently (at least, for the forseeable future) to Europe were stupid and that once they got the replacement part then they would do the maintenance and turn it back on and all of them would have to go "Ah, well, THIS time Russia wasn't lying, but..." but honestly your hypothesis is way funnier and makes sense.
AFAIK there's no technical issues with the NS2 pipeline, it's literally just not being used because the United States told Germany not to use it. It's as concrete a choice as you can get between "Do you want gas so your economy doesn't collapse, or do you want to be irreversibly attached to a sclerotic, dying colossus?". If you'd have asked me before February what choice Germany would make then I'd obviously choose the former, but now...
It's not even collapse. It's do you want your economy to evaporate. Corps there are saying that many of the industries that do collapse will be permanent. They will be seeking other places to build the products and those jobs and tax revenue will for ever be lost to Germany. Or the products may just not exist afterwards.
This whole thing, and history in general, just shows how much patience Russians have. I feel like they have waited a good amount of time so the news falls off, public opinion starts to sour on western leadership, and now they are finally starting to ratchet it up with denying gas. They let the west sanctions do tons of damage to the west, and now they seem to be ready to heap on their side of controlled damage.
Surely they wont be so stupid?
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I like to imagine american capitalist leaders reading through this site, then stumbling on these comments and going "holy shit, this is a great idea, write that down!"
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Didn't Michael Hudson had that happen to him? When he first wrote Super Imperialism, a lot of State Department freaks wanted to hear him speak, because he had considered angles they hadn't even thought of.
Well, fuck. Hopefully the germans understand that.
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They're not going to move it to America. Mexico will be the closest
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I still have a naive hope Germany will break from the dying Empire. But i also have a sinking feeling my hopes will soon be squashed...
Betting on the SPD to turn right and do the wrong thing has rarely gone astray