August 1st's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Go here for live updates on the Taiwan situation.
August 3rd's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
August 5th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
August 6th's update is here! 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.
Seconding this, economic sanctions or something on the US would be way more painful and cost-effective vs military response. Pretty bad plan to go to war with the country that makes your ammunition and so many other things.
The American ruling class doesn't care about it's population. So sanctions aren't going to deter it.
I forget where i read it but some Chinese think tank type people where making this argument. That the only thing the usa ruling elite understands is violence.
Yes, the elite only understand violence, but you can absolutely get there through economics. Economic driven violence you could call it, its a more scenic route but not really that scenic.
Sure, sanctions and such won't affect them immediately much neither afaik. Like bond dumping or chip shipment seizure or what have you, big bourgeois still laughs and gets their plunder/treats/whatever, profits off it too. Long term it will though, and you can't be ignorant and free of your material reality forever, like the giant chocolate bunny in the pot of boiling milk, fatter you are the more insulated from your environment, but you are not immortal, eventually you will melt. Economy gets bad enough the ruling elite won't be insulated, and as brainwashed as Americans are they do still feel things like thirst hunger and such and while they will attack each other first eventually they will turn on the bourgeois.
Aside from economic violence regular type wars are lost and won on logistics alone, we've seen how fragile supply chains in the US are. As a spoiler some of those supply chains do hinder military ones as well.
Everything minus military for the US is fair or shit tier (ex infrastructure, health of populace, economy, and so on), all they have going for them is military/military manufacturing and deal chains and the time to use that is super short, like maybe 5-10yrs tops before they're no longer the global hegemony. Can't fight a war on bad thoughts alone, or make money on war like they used to, US as hypnotized by its own propaganda knows this and is pushing world wide to get as many fires started to use its advantages while it has them in place, won't have them for much longer. Just has to push the target country to the limit to get the military conflicts started since that's playing to the very last card in its deck. These are the lashings out of a faltering warbeast.