October 17th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary!
October 18th's update is here! TLDR? Here's the summary!
Next update will be next Friday, but I'll be poking around the thread during that time. Next thread will go up on Monday like usual.
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.
British leader ousted in palace coup
News are emerging from Great Britain that Liz Truss, the supreme leader of the hermit kingdom in the far west of Europe, has been forced to resign by forces in the ruling conservative party.
Experts fear that the fledgling nation which has been marred by mismanagement and corruption since the end of the civil war in the 1990's, will be thrown into political turmoil over what seems to be an internal power struggle in the regime.
A new supreme leader is scheduled to be appointed by the regime following a consultation of members of the ruling conservative party. Anglo-watchers are speculating that the ouster of Truss will make way for the rehabilitation of Boris Johnson, the disgraced firebrand strongman who was ousted earlier this year after similar turmoil in the regime.
It's such a shame that this happens to these kingdoms, so stuck in the past. Did you know that "Great" Britain (South Scotland, more like it!) still has a monarchy as the technical ruler of its brutal regime?
Honestly, I think it's really struggling to cope with the aftermath of its genocidal imperial legacy around the world.
Alas, the only real alternative there was Jeremy Corbyn, who faced a barrage of state propaganda that forced him into submission, and the only opposition now is controlled opposition in the form of Keir Starmer, who believes in 98% of the ruling regime's policies. Perhaps one day, the iron curtain around the country will lift and the repressed citizenry can experience true freedom and democracy.
And whose party has been actively purging any left elements for half a decade, at least
The British people are forced to eat rats and then Liz Truss eats us and then Boris Johnson eats Liz Truss and that is how our economy works. Please Xi send J-20 sixth generation jet fighters and the aircraft carrier Shandong to liberate our people.
British politics is just a rotating cast of conservative buffoons making a mockery of themselves and getting ousted in a plot
Great work but you definitely need to work "figurehead" into there
LOL. Holy shit I thought you were making this up for the narrative, but it's real.
One down. Loads more to go.
I found this comment on :reddit-logo:, BTW: