October 10th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 11th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
October 12th's update is here!. TLDR? Here's the summary!
No updates on Thursdays.
October 15th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary.
Just an update on my situation: I'll almost certainly be moving within the next week or two. The last update for a little while will be next Wednesday, the 19th. I'm going to then take a break to set things up, get to know my surroundings and such. I hope to be ready to start doing this again on the 28th, but I will post that week's megathread on the 24th.
After that, I will hopefully be able to keep doing this more consistently and things will get less busy than they have in recent weeks. I strongly appreciate all the compliments I get and I'm glad to be part of such a great community! :Care-Comrade:
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.
Arestovich (one of Zelensky's closest advisors) has talked about the strikes today and has basically said "Well, it's not all doom and gloom, now Russia has less missiles to fire at us! Imagine how much money it took to make those missiles!" which is definitely the funniest take possible
zapplensky brannigan: just send wave after wave of your own men at them to take missiles to the face until the russians hit their pre-set kill limit and you win :think-about-it:
It's less funny when you realize that this is literally Ukraine's strategy. Grab some conscripts off the street, give them a week of training, and then stick them in some trenches to absorb Russian artillery fire. This buys time until ... something happens. I have no idea what Ukraine's strategy for actually winning is. The Kharkiv offensive seems to have petered out after taking about three towns. The western wunderwaffen haven't turned the tide, Putin hasn't been couped, and US has refused to either nuke Russia or give Ukraine nukes.
The strategy is that nato and Europe get pulled into the war. Hence the need to win the propaganda war at every level from /pol/ to the think tank, from the heartland living room to the virginia boardrooms.
The logistics are only in Ukraines favour for asymmetrical warfare against a occupying army. But as to how they are supposed to win an artillery war when they have a 10th of the firing rate, and no air support... Shrug
Isn't that just sending the nukes but with more steps?
yeah probably. ukraine is already super fucked the libs and fash don't care if the rest of the world blows itself up on their behalf.
It gets funny again when you consider that the slur "orc" the Ukrainians love to throw around was popularized under the expectation that Russia's tactic in the war would be to send send massive waves of ill equipped poorly trained men to overpower them.
making that other sucker hurt his hand real bad on my face and ribs, owned
It's like Wimp Lo from Kung Pow. "Oh yeah? Then try my nuts to your fist style!"
“My nipples look like Milk Duds.”
"Thats a lot of NUTS!"
This is true when it’s $1,000,000 tomahawk missiles launched at suspicious looking village during a wedding, less so when it’s against critical infrastructure and hundreds of NATO trained psychos get blown up with all their fancy tech
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