People sometimes ask me how do I get my knowledge about what's happening in Ukraine, what are my sources etc. etc. I'm basically an office worker, I don't have background in any war related topics, my job is connected to economics, so I can sometimes have interesting insides about international markets. Friend of mine is expert on energy market, so sometimes he tells me interesting stuff.
However, in polish infosphere war in Ukriane is generally big fucking deal. Ukraine is a country next to Poland, almost every Polish know some Ukrainian because even before the war, there was lots of Ukrainians in Poland. Because of that a lot of so called
public intellectuals in Poland are constanly talking about this war. You have mainstream media takes, which are typical mainstream media crap - lots of emotion, low amount of actual info.
But there is also good stuff, mostly on YouTube. One person that came up highly into popularity due to war in Ukraine is Jarosław Wolski.
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He's professional OSINT analyst, used to take tasks on gathering intel on russia an belraus before invasion, so he was one of people who were sure that this war is going to happen. Other than that, he was military journalist. Witty humor and great knowledge give him peaks of popularity, he started YT channel which has 263k subs. It might sound unimpressive, unless you realize it is polish-speaking channel and there is ~40 million of Polish speakers. He releases like 2-3 videos per week, each 30min to 1,5h in length. Also, he isn't alone. He has multiple guests, but my favorite is colonel Piotr Lewandowski.
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Former commander of the military base in Redzikowo, one of soliders who fought in Afghanistan. Overall smart, accomplished solider who often shares insights from his experience.
However, there are more channels, thSo at discusses war in Ukraine. Another would be Historia Realna, which has almost half a milion subs. In this channel there is purely interview content. However, choice of guest is high quality. Beyond usual civilian experts, there are quality generals like:
- General Mieczysław Bieniek - former 4 star general
- General of the branch Waldemar Skrzypczak - former 3 star general of land forces
- Brigadier general Tomasz Drewniak - former 1 star general of air forces
- Brigadier general Jarosław Kraszewski - former 1 star general of artillery and rocker forces
Those are people that polish-speaking population have opportunity to listen on a weekly basis. We get to hear opinion and thoughs of litteraly highest rank officers in our army. Many of english-speakers praise Perun. And don't get me wrong, he's a smart man, that knows what he's talking about. However, some civilians can't exactly compare to former 4 star general.
So that's why I don't link my sources. Because they are in polish, and translating 30min, or 1,5h video is way beyond what free time I could spare.