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.
Worst fears confirmed in Solomons.
Warning: based content ahead. I repeat, based content ahead.
Yeah, and the USSR definitely did that completely unprovoked. Literally nothing was going on in Europe, or Turkey, at that time. Just, out of the blue, they put nukes in Cuba.
Imagine if literally any western nation had an article written about them by a serious politician from a very powerful country, very close to them - say, Russia, or China - that suggested that they should be invaded. And that the leader of that country said that a "red line" had been cross-- y'know what, just imagine Russia and Ukraine, that's what I'm trying to say. This is what it looks like from the opposite side, if the aggressor country and their capitalists had a firm grip on every media outlet and could dictate popular opinion throughout the world, or at least the western world. Anybody who supports Ukraine but is also like "hmmm, well, perhaps the Solomon Islands shouldn't have a potential Chinese base, it's not great, they need to think about the security of other nations bordering them" is an actual fucking circus clown.
If a political leader in the imperial periphery goes against the west he is autocratic, furious and tirading. His messages are littered with scare quotes to show how deranged he is. The western-funded astroturfs undermining him are "civil society groups".
You've got to love the free press of the west!
You could totally imagine a universe where Australia did a defense pact that China didn't like and Sogavare starts talking about Ughyurs and it's called a "passionate speech" that "is yet one more blow to China's desire to extend their totalitarian government over the planet".
couple clarifications. 1. the article suggesting invasion was not a government or even a major publication. It just managed to get circulated by having a really stupid hot take. 2. The "red line" comment was that Solomon Islands hosting a military base would be a "red line" not that the security pact was a red line. But yeah Australia's government is managing to do everything wrong and giving SI's PM all the ammunition he could hope for.