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.
this shit with Sweden and Finland maybe joining NATO is wild, I wish more ppl were talking about it and helping the left there oppose it
https://twitter.com/DSA_Intl_Comm/status/1525120090575884296
Erdogan is literally the Joker when it comes to the NATO-Russia relationship
lmao this is hilarious, im guessing cause of Kurds?
More likely because as a NATO member, Turkey would really not like to go to war with Russia, they depend economically on Russia quite some (produce, tourism, energy, as well as some military equipment), and Sweden and especially Finland joining NATO increases the likelihood of that 200%. Erdogan is also playing his own game, with pan-Turkyism, some mini-imperial but real aspirations, so he really doesn't need that shit now. Also considering that his bet on devaluing the lyra, plus the global crisis, is not doing any favors to their economy rn, he clearly doesn't want to escalate any of this.
While this is no doubt true, to answer @mrbigcheese, Erdogan did say that Sweden and Finland were “guesthouses for terrorist organisations” referring specifically to the Kurds. So ostensibly yeah, that's the reasoning.
Turkey is such a shitshow. America just let them steamroll the kurds after the kuds helped destroy isis. Fuck.
Thank god for broken clocks.
good for Nooshi for saying no
ya pleasantly surprised the Left Party is holding out in Sweden and actually putting up a serious fight to campaign against it
https://www.vansterpartiet.se/nato/
I know certain military ghouls really want to rush Finland's inclusion into NATO and I don't think it's gonna work. They should be wary of provoking Russia when they can't put up 1/10th the shitshow of a fight the Ukrainians currently are. Really everyone in Finland should oppose this but political consciousness is in short supply everywhere really.
It's fucking wild that countries aren't looking at this and learning the exact opposite lesson: NATO involvement fucked Ukraine over royally, and is ultimately likely to do the same to them.
I guess Cold War (or world war?) pick-your-side mentality tends to get in the way of that....