I have pondered for a week about how I'm going to cover world events and especially this war in the long term, without losing my mind (and a significant amount of time on my behalf) staring into the abyss that is modern-day journalism.
My solution, so far, is what you can see. The update itself and the summary have performed a fusion dance, becoming a single entity (who even reads thousands of words almost every day just for news?). Only the headlines will be posted, except when a short excerpt from the article is particularly good at summarizing the article's contents (or when the article has a clickbaity headline). To save character space, all links to media will be archived, except for a few special cases like blogs (e.g. Michael Roberts, Naked Capitalism), instead of just the more MSM-y sites.
To the loyal people with attention spans of steel who have been here since the beginning, back when the war looked like it would be over before the first leaves started falling off the trees - yes, I agree, it does look frighteningly similar to what I initially did before the bulletins site was a thing. Just with a different categorization system. Time is a flat circle, after all.
Anyway:
November 21st's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 22nd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 23rd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 25th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 26th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
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. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.
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. Beware of chuddery.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are fairly brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. The Duran, of which he co-hosts, is where the chuddery really begins to spill out.
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 ~ Now rebranded as Battlefield Insights, they do infrequent posts on the conflict.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
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 ~ One of the really big pro-Russian (except when they're being pessismistic, which is often) telegram channels focussing on the war. 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. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Any Western media outlet that is even vaguely liberal (and quite a few conservative ones too).
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.
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Real communists cook directly on the burner because nonstick is bourgeois
Teflon is capitalist dog technology
It really is and its highly carcinogenic but those capitalist dogs want us to be poisoned.
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was this an actual thing that I missed? lmfao
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It's ludicrous what people think "no personal property" means. Anyone arguing against personal kitchens is doing "communal blanket" trolling and needs reeducation or gulag.
to be fair to the unhinged, it wasn't a personal property thing, it was that personal kitchens are counter-revolutionary because they promote individualism or some shit
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You are reactionary by definition if you find yourself arguing against posession of cooking implements.
Lets put it another way:
You are against workers owning the means of induction
cookingThis is revisionist and I refuse to elaborate further
You're a monarcho-gastronomist if you want to take the means of food production from the hands of the workers and the peasants
The social gastro-revolurionaries have started a cast iron front in the cookware war. Only the crockpot Soviet can save us with Stalin's big spoon
The only true proletarian way of cooking is communal meals cooked in those giant paella pans they have for tourists in Spain. Individual frying pan ownership is bourgeois decadence and should get you sent to the gulag.
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Mofo go make a quiche and tell me that's not communal cooking, gulag with you pots and pans reductionist
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The discourse is fine and the threads usually contain good information in my opinion. I just don't trust predictions made in these threads.
I think the broadest predictions are fine but as soon as you get into like "Russia will do an offensive in X weeks to capture Y", it's mostly just entertaining yourself; none of us have any real idea what's going to happen unless we secretly have a Russian general commenting in the thread when he steps out of the command meetings
The thread is at its best when we're just dunking on the West for being moronic while also shitting ourselves because I imagine most people in this thread live in the West
I think trusting predictions amidst the fog of war or on infinately complex geopolitical relationships is a bit of a mugs game anyway. Doesn't mean people can't or shouldn't make them, but even given the start of this war I think everyone takes them with a pretty big pinch of salt.