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.
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Chinese government needs to put up or shut up. They make large statements then take tiny actions. Everyone sees it. It does not look good.
The correct stance is either to pull the trigger to get what you want by economic and military force, or quietly bide your time until you can. Don’t just swing around wildly with threats and then back down.
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They are correct. Action or nothing. China always manages to fumble almost every foreign policy action. I say this as constructive criticism, I fully support the PRC I am just always frustrated by them making the wrong call.
The need to get a phone line to DPRK and consult them, because DPRK is WAY better about their stances geopolitically. The problem is that PRC is trying to have their cake and eat it too right now in regards to US relations, they want to enjoy trade and investments but also want to remove the shackles imposed on them to contain them by the US.
You can’t have both. The US only does business this way, they do not treat third world colonized nations as equals the way China wishes to. The deal of Chinese rapprochement by Nixon/Kissinger/Deng was one of master and subordinate. They need to accept this and purge the last of the pro-American fantasies and sympathizers from their government, the time of fooling Americans into moving their means of production to your shores is over. They are onto the plan, time to enter the next phase.
Xi it’s time to hit the communism button and nationalize American assets and mass sell off American holdings. Seize Taiwan.
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Good I hope the government takes heed
I am seething myself (even though I think something will still happen). I’m just too proud to admit to anyone irl where I’m surrounded by libs.
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Pretty much all of this 100% correct.
they're censoring shit about pelosi's visit which is pretty funny
lol I was just reading through some threads on Zhihu, and damn, a lot of disappointment there.
Let's be honest, would anybody in Washington or Beijing be genuinely upset with the news that Pelosi's plane has been shot down?
That's just successful diplomacy.
Literally no one liked Franz Ferdinand. They still went to war over his interrupted car ride
I thought Franz Ferdinand was pretty good, but their later albums fell off a bit
I mean no one was willing to go to war for that either, the miscommunication, complex treaties, and dick measuring all tied in with horrid timing is what went wrong. it was a series of half-assed bluffs that all accidentally became real