Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section. Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war. 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 relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language. https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one. https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts. https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel. https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator. https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps. 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.
I think the most insulting thing about this is sending Kamala of all people to tell a war time president to not attack legitimate targets lol. They couldn’t find some military general for this? Not Biden? I guess when the only thing you do all day is xanax then you have time for everything else
bombing nordstream made Europe dependent on the US and pumped the US petroleum industry, and it was probably meant to hurt Russia but that part backfired
It definitely backfired, but bombing refineries does the same as bombing Nordstream in terms of hurting Europe's supply of Russian oil and gas, no? So it just reflects a shift in tactics over the last year. They're pivoting out of all-out aggression on Russia.
Nordstream was gas only, which isn’t as critical for US politics as the price of oil.
Blowing up Nordstream coincided with a large increase in export capacity in the US, and in the US there was a excess of natural gas because it’s very available in the shale where the USA gets most of its oil from. There was so much gas that often they weren’t even bothering to capture it because it wasn’t economical. Being able to export that to Europe was nothing but net for the USA.
I think proximity to the elections is what has changed rather than the position on Russia. If decreased production harms the US economy between now and November, it will seriously damage Biden's campaign