Apologies, this one is smaller than usual, as I'm gonna be very busy over the next few days. It's the same amount of headlines, just not as much quoted from them.
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.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
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.
Really starting to feel like the libs doth protest too much methinks, due all the posts and articles and such calling Putin incompetent and insane and an idiot (or stronger language). As if they're trying to will it into reality, as well as the defeat that they all insist is coming and yet does not arrive
Very persistent rumours are claiming that Putin is sick, possibly with terminal cancer, and, in some versions of the rumour, drugged out of his mind on heavy medication.
The people telling these rumours are basing them on such hard evidence as "he looked bloated on TV"
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He's like 70 lmao, of course he isn't gonna look great at all times. I've also heard the cancer rumours, not sure if there's any basis at all but it's not like, inconceivable I guess.
Putin is not only 70, but he has also had plastic surgery for about 15 years at this point. At some point all that plastic in your forehead is gonna make you look weird, just ask Berlusconi.