Here is September 19th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is September 20th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is September 21st's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is September 23rd's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Here is September 24th's update! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists, for the “buh Zeleski is a jew?!?!” people.
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.
Basis points are the economicsy way of saying interest rates. 1 basis point = 0.01% rate hike. So 100 basis points = 1% rate hike.
I think it's mainly because when you talk about increases in percentages, it's unclear sometimes if you're talking about a 1% increase of something versus an increase by 1%. e.g. the difference between a 200% to 201% increase (adding 1%) or a 200 to 202 increase (a percentage increase of 1% of 200).
My understanding of the general situation is this, feel free to dunk on me if I'm drastically wrong:
Increasing interest rates is seen by orthodox liberal economic thinking as the way to decrease inflation. In reality, the two have an unclear relationship at best, but hey, there's a reason why the global economic system keeps breaking down over and over again - we're ruled by these idiots. In this case, however, the problem is that there isn't enough supply going into the economy, when usually it's a demand problem. If it's a demand problem, then making interest rates go up is meant to decrease demand. But if supply isn't going up, then you can raise rates all you want - you're pressing a button on a disconnected video game controller.
For us, increased interest rates mean higher chance of a recession, which is obviously bad for working people. Of cause, causing a recession is also a way of decreasing demand to the point where it matches supply - but that's like starving a population so enough people die so that a shitty crop harvest can support them, rather than trying to fix the crop harvest.
Exactly. What would be needed is nationalizing the commanding heights of the economy, and some planning the get the supply side running, even succdems knew this, but we are stuck with neoliberal ghouls on all sides (well, not in China)
They also exporting their inflation with this. The dollar will come back to the US in short term. For long term, they're fuck