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.
What about Peter Thiel? He's out there picking primary winners for the republicans, airdropping tens of millions of dollars on candidates. Where do his candidates fall on the abortion question?
Thiel's strategy for a candidate appears to be
If I had to guess, I'd say that Silicon Valley vampire couldn't give two shits one way or another. But I also suspect he's got a White Nationalist streak wide enough for him to be sympathetic to the "Not enough white blonde teenage hotties in my area code!" plea from his incel fan base. So he's not against overturning Roe if it means more war-orphans from Ukraine getting pregnant.
This I believe.