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.
Same thing happened with Russia, which is how you got the "gas station with a country" quips and UK leaders stating that they would never recognize Russia's sovereignty over actual provinces of Russian Federation
Big issue in general in politics is that the people who report on it and "develop" policy believe their own farts over actual fact-finding or analysis. Thete's a quote from an Obama official that goes like "newspapers used to have foreign bureaus all over the world to get news on foreign affairs. Now they just ask us. The average international reporter is a 27 year old that knows nothing".
Certified noah smith moment
Y'know I remember years ago reading that print-newspaper was more or less dying as a medium because of intensely low profit margins, and I can't help but imagine that that's a big contributor to this.
hmm i wonder if someone may have written about why this happens at some point in time