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.

Next thread here!

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:

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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.


    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
      hexagon
      M
      hexbear
      44
      2 years ago

      On the bright side, we aren't in the worst of all worlds.

      China still exists, and its rise appears to be unstoppable, and its government still committed to their socialist project and against the West. As does Cuba, Venezuela, the DPRK, Laos, and so on.

      Looking at this from the broadest viewpoint, the project of destroying American hegemony is continuing about as well as one could hope given the conditions.

      Though if you live in the West, well, horrors beyond our comprehension await us. But whatever fascist phase is coming, and is kinda already here, can't last forever. We're fighting for the world after it collapses. We gotta survive.

    • Fleshbeast [he/him]
      hexbear
      33
      2 years ago

      I think the US is largely committed to managing its decline specifically into fascism at this point. The repression of left-wing organization in all forms will be the tenet of their prior liberalism which serves as the bridge from Neo-liberalism into American Fascism. We can, should, and will still organize where we are able to within the West (if for no other reason, to survive in a conscionable manner) but we should look for our "successes" and motivations outside of the US, imo.

    • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      29
      2 years ago

      Some pure online observation

      From the outside it seems absolutly amazing what is happening in the USA . The Democrats , by their obvious lying and association with "obviously visually marked" Nazis in ukraine and more importantly , beeing Democrats (priorities) have provided the majority of the "Chud Hearingrange" Contingent , a golden bridge to leave the ship and the dynamic of social media discourse 6 Months into this Kabuki Theater has probably has him posting Ukrainian Faschist and explaining the Wolfsangle to @Karenloveandpeace that was arguring for the castration of all Russians so they cant breed...