Apparently there are now discussions over whether to send the F-16 as well as tanks!
This sounds like an even worse idea to me, and it probably isn’t going to happen for a while even if they agree to send them, but regardless - the war has reached the point where such discussions are seriously occurring.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Here is the archive of important pieces of analysis from throughout the war that we’ve collected.
January 30th’s update is here on the site and here in the comments.
January 31st’s update is here on the site and here in the comments.
February 1st’s update is here on the site and here in the comments.
February 3rd’s update is here on the site and here in the comments.
Sorry, no update today, Xi Jinping has put me inside this giant balloon. Apparently we’re testing a new kind of mass surveillance + mind control technology to turn everybody into communists? Not sure where I am right now but I heard aircraft going by yesterday. I’ll be back on solid ground by Monday.
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.
South America refuses to send guns to Ukraine :latam-solidarity:
Latin America isn’t considering sending armaments to Ukraine, says President of Argentina Alberto Fernandez in joint press conference with Olaf Scholz.
When asked by Emmanuel Macron about the War in Ukraine, Lula said that “Brazil’s war is against poverty”.
Colombia rejects US proposal to supply Ukraine with Russian weapons.
Lol
“On December 10, 2003 I was already elected President of the Republic, and I was invited by President Bush to go to the United States. When I arrived in the United States, Bush was involved in the war in Iraq."
“The war hadn’t started yet, but he was obsessive and talked so much about that war, that the impression he gave me was that there was already a war. And, after almost 40 minutes in which President Bush convinced me of the need to combat terrorism by attacking Iraq.”
“I said to President Bush: President Bush, Iraq is not Brazil’s problem. I have another war to fight in my country, which is to fight the misery and hunger of 50 million Brazilians who live below the poverty line.”
Lula da Silva on his relation with President Bush
Just called someone a tankie for supporting sending tanks to ukraine lmao
Lmaooooooo US authorities are saying they’ve discovered a giant Chinese spy balloon over a military base in Montana and are currently circling it with 3 Air Force planes.
Absolutely uncritical support to the people’s eye in the sky :deng-salute:
promised myself not to drink this week and basically I have to do a will saving throw every 45 minutes. I’ve already put my boots and coat on and left only to stop myself halfway from the convenience store twice tonight. I expect I’ll still be awake at 3am just staring at the fucking ceiling and stressing about bullshit.
addiction and ADHD are a shitty fucking mix
edit : wait this isn’t a general thread
i asked chatgpt to describe why the soviet union wasnt a dictatorship and it brought up the fact that it had a black market and was by definition not a totalitarian dictatorship because they could not control black market forces
i am wilding
