Very slight change of plans: I'll begin the updates next Monday instead of this Friday. So this week will have no updates. Dang. So y'all better post hard enough to make up for it. But not so hard that we get past 1000 comments by the end of the week.
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.
https://twitter.com/Herravaldet/status/1584792279063068673
Former intelligence officer and head of media relations for the Swedish army, as well as former press chief of the foreign minister, is demanding that a journalist be "taken out of service" for writing an article that is sceptical of Swedish military propaganda and media collaboration.
And the article isn't even that critical, its literally just "I'm fundamentally sceptical of an all-military perspective due to the bias towards warhawking, this guy is paraded around every Swedish media outlet giving uncritically pro-NATO opinions, and he never cites a single source outside of mentioning two twitter accounts once." as well as pointing out the absurd divide in how emotionally charged war reporting is for the Ukraine war compared to literally every western initiated wars and invasions.
It's literally just a baseline "good journalism" opinion piece pointing out how we've apparently decided to go against elementary school level critical thinking when it comes to the war.
Most of the replies as well is just disgusting NAFO tier "bro you love putin cock" or on an actually scary level, "If this was martial law you'd be charged with land treason for questioning the integrity of a military officer!!!".
Is there a Stalin quote that has aged better than "social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism"? :stalin-pipe: It just continues being correct, day after day.
I'm frankly embarrassed at my past, baby leftist self thinking that quote was being hyperbolic
One of the most upvoted replies, by a journalist with Ukraine flag profile
The State of the Debate™ in Sweden.
You'd think if theres objectively a genocide going on, assuring objectivety would be no great challenge.
Its the state of the debate in much of the western world.