September 26th’s update is here! TLDR? Here’s the summary.
Next thread here. Sorry, the threads start breaking down at above 1000 comments.
edit: I’ve found a number of sources to use, mostly based on analysis rather than purely event reporting. I’ve kept some of the better mainstream sources, but I decided that I was gonna cut the six most aggravating sources out entirely: NYT, WaPo, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, and Politico. I’m not yet sure if I have enough for fully fledged updates (or maybe eventhe new material is too much) so I will do tomorrow’s update with what I’ve found so far, and if I think I need more, I will add more. Unless I managed to get it just right the first time, I think I will end up iterating over the next week towards the best balance of lots of good sources that don’t take too much time to sift through.
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.
I think there are a ton of people in Iran who want changes. The problem is of course the US will take advantage of any instability re cause havoc on the country. That being said, I do think there are enough Irans that seem to understand that the rest of the world would let them live under the heel of the Islamic Republic if they were pro west. I do not, in my current knowledge, think that these folks don’t have enough power yet to possibly lead the country (I might be wrong) as most anti Islamic Republic groups in the west are pro western.
I also acknowledge the fact that the Islamic Republic does still have a core constituency and that the US has helped cause hardliners to get back in power in Iran. The first and foremost duty of people in the US is of course is to make sure no more sanctions are applied.
It really is a shitty situation and naturally people want to help, but sometimes that urge can be used for evil. It really sucks that people wanting a better life can be used to still fuck them over.
I haven’t been keeping up as much as I should have - is there any genuine risk that Iran’s government is overthrown by this color revolution or is the situation “under control”, even if it’s not exactly peaceful?
All of Iran probably won’t fall but there is a serious danger of a SDF situation developing except more overtly pro American. This would lead to breakdowns in both Iran and Iraq.
I feel like some of the stuff I’ve seen almost makes it sound like there is a lot of confusion on the ground as it seems like there are a lot of different people trying to control the movement. I don’t think there is any risk of the government falling.
As for what I think should happen, I definitely think they should get rid of the morality police, however, they won’t as the gov never compromises, and this case wouldn’t be any different.
