Here is August 8th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
AUGUST 9TH's GENERAL MEGATHREAD IS HERE.
Here is August 9th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is August 10th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
No updates on Thursdays.
Here is August 12th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is August 13th's update! 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.
Want an update on how France is doing ? beyond extreme drought and water shortages in almost the entirety of the country, historically bad harvests, horrible heatwaves, and the general awfulness of living in a pre-apocalyptic dystopia, we're also like everyone facing huge amounts of underpaid people quitting and general abused-worker shortages; three measures of note from our newly re-elected president recently:
They will bring the cops reservist civilian forces from 5k people to 30k in a matter of months. We're talking the state arming citizens and giving them a uniform, letting them patrol in public, after a ten days "training" period. That's not hyperbole, it's actually 10 days. Picture of one of the training sessions here. The government's afraid, I think - the Yellow Vests happened when things were going relatively smoothly. Upcoming soon is the period when social movements usually start to pick up again.
Given nursery workers are in dire shortage, they're dropping training requirements for those jobs drastically. In some case, we're talking recruiting people without any related qualifications in nurseries.
There's a thing in France, the RSA. In theory it might look like a basic income, except far more shitty: you get it, OK, but it's mostly not enough to live by except in edge cases (usually it'll mean at the very least surviving, not living, and going to food banks); they also inspect your bank statements to detect any "revenue", including friends lending you money, to deduce the amount from it. It's what you can get, in theory indefinitely, when your unemployment runs out. Now they're talking about making recipients have to work for free in order to keep getting it. No kidding.
So, yea :yea:
:macron: :france-cool:
Edit: I just realized this isn't the megathread, apologies; I'll delete if required.
it's news! we love news! we are news hogs!
I love those bulletins from OP so much. They have overtaken @Dirt_Owl's posts for me as "best content on the website" for a while now (sorry, Dirt_Owl). Though if going back a bit more I also really liked the Tao Te Ching posts by, I think, @Leon_Grotsky.
I should probably post more. Mostly I comment.
@Dirt_Owl now probably
Look at those little muffins :meow-melt:
Thank you very much, IMO a very undeserved honor to be in the contention for best content (even with the caveat); but I am always happy to hear someone found them helpful!
:meow-hug:
Not just helpful (though they were): also extremely enjoyable and, somehow, relaxing. Very deserved, and ignore the caveat - it's because mostly I occasionally miss them. Thanks again :ancom-heart:
It's cool :owl-wink:
Yes, I do! And that's just the kind of thing this thread is for. It fits here much better than it would in the regular megathread imo. Like anaesidemus said, it's news. Also, the other megathread moves fast and I think most people only read the most recent bits of it. Here (at least this is the case for me) the tendency is to actually go through it as one might a newspaper.
In fact I hope you post more like this here in the future, as I would like to be kept informed what is happening in France by a comrade who is actually there. Thank you for posting this info, concerning as it is.
:rat-salute:
Others have been doing similar lately and Its been good.
Yeah it's great to see. A welcome addition to all the news that seventytwotrillion curates and commentates so excellently.
Will do, then :sankara-salute:
10 days is not enough to form any cohesion with your unit let alone "for the cause". They'll have some real sadists staying aboard but almost everyone else is gonna quit or do their job half-assed as soon as French riots start.
Couldn't happen to a nicer country /s