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.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Yesterday's discussion post.
BBC TV news just openly doing pieces about how sad it is for the smol bean besieged Azov fighters, showing a bunch of indoctrinated school children holding up signs with "Save Azov" and a bunch of Nazi shit, very cool and normal.
It has really surprised me how pro-Azov the western media is being. You would think they would downplay it and sweep it under the rug and only show “normal” Ukrainian armed forces, but for some reason they just… aren’t. They are instead going all in on “Azov is reformed nice Nazis now”.
They were blurring the swastikas of Azov fighters in their coverage recently. Literally the opposite of journalism.
Yeah, I guess they're trying to normalise openly far right armed groups working with NATO which is super dark but I guess not unexpected given how shit the media is
Imagine if in Syria, the west didn’t try to say it was supporting “moderate rebels” and freedom fighters and democracy lovers, but instead just straight up admitted they were arming Al Qaeda and ISIS militants but it was worth it because “Assad is literally Hitler”
"My fellow Americans, we, uh, Nazified some folks..."
:obama-spike:
Because Azov is the unit seeing the most combat and the Ukraine standing army wants nothing to do with the war. Hell they had mass defections in 2014 and their current army is mostly conscripts
I wouldn't go that far, Russian telegram is absolutely flooded everyday with pictures of dead Ukrainian soldiers.
Thousands of bodies, and I see nothing analogous coming out of Ukrainian telegrams. I haven’t even seen a single captured russian soldier for weeks.
Contrast that with Russian telegram which shows tons of destroyed pixel-camo armor, large groups surrendering (sometimes 10-1000 people) and trenches filled with Ukrainian corpses…
It’s clear what side is getting the worst of “attrition” warfare in Phase 2
Yet westoid media keeps going on and on about the heavy losses suffered by Russia.
They have to, it’s a useful cope. Yeah Ukrainian forces are taking heavy losses… this can no longer be denied… but but but but Russians are doing even worse!!!
It’s a “I’m rubber you’re glue” defense out of an increasingly desperate Ukraine, which the western media quotes diligently
It's a useful lie to justify sending more money and weapons to Ukraine. If they admitted that Ukraine would inevitably lose, this would be harder to justify.
Yeah but the news told me russia is actually losing because "their advance has slowed" lol
I guess it's expanded more since the earlier days when most of the heavy fighting was in Mariupol. That honestly makes the western obsession with Azov even more perplexing. Unless you just assume that the end goal of this propaganda war is to drum up support for funding stay behind Nazis and stochastic terror in Ukraine after the war ends, which is absolutely what's happening. They're just so damn blatant about it.