It's my weekly rest day, so no update today.
I just want to thank everybody who has engaged with these threads, from the frequent commenters, to the background lurkers, and even the people who come in thinking this is the main megathread and start telling us about their banana bread recipe or something like that.
I'm hopeful that my daily schedule will stabilise for at least the next few weeks, if not months, and I can finally get a reliable stream of updates rather than those punctuated by random breaks.
Of course, may the war end soon, and may Azov, Right Sector, and every other group get what they deserve. And, of course, these threads will continue past the end of the war - unless the end of the war coincides with a sudden and brief increase in the air temperature to several million degrees in every city on the planet.
Yesterday marked the 72nd day of me doing this. I'm gunning for 72 trillion more.
Links and Stuff
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.
Yesterday's discussion post.
It's so fucking funny to me that like, Sweden and Finland both confidently strode up to NATO and were "We want in." and the whole media cycle for a day or two was journalists - who think that they're uniquely intelligent people whose opinions have any more merit than anybody else's - making articles with headlines like "You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it. Putin has brought us together into unity and together, autocratic regimes will never prosper." And then like a day later, Erdogan comes out of nowhere and stops the whole parade.
Like, this is the funniest thing that could have happened, and I feel bad for not predicting it based on the principle that the stupidest and/or funniest thing will always happen because we live in a dying world run by failchildren and the failchildren of those failchildren. And it's similar for Orban blocking the oil embargo for so long. Like, it sucks so fucking bad that the only people who are putting up any fight against this are these horrific quasi-fascist turds (aside from the really principled ones, like the Portugese communists or some of the more left-wing groups Sweden or Finland).
But there's few things I like more than watching liberals eat shit on their takes and predictions, and some overpaid motherfucking journalist who starts half their articles with a quote from the Iliad, writing an article about how Turkey and Hungary should be kicked out of every organization and sanctions put on them that you can obviously tell was written with incredible seething anger - watching their fury is like nectar from the gods to me. These are some of the most passively evil people on the planet, people who are doing propaganda for this genocidal global empire but actually fully believe the bullshit to their core, and them crying over their keyboards is just :chefs-kiss:. Really hoping for the day when I can get a Liberal Tears mug and have it not be automatically assumed that I'm a weirdo chud.