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.
The fact that Rand Paul of all people is the only person holding this shit up is pretty depressing. Like, I know that AOC and the Squad are congresspeople and not senators but the fact that they just let it slide is :agony-shivering:. And Barbara Lee, of Iraq War opposition fame, also not opposing it at all.
Most of this money will go to the US weapons manufacturers anyway, so AOC and the Squad are thinking of simple working folk making those Javelins actually :think-about-it: especially considering how many non-real sector US companies are about to go under and how relatively few real-sector companies there are
The Roe V. Wade leak seems to have pretty convenient timing to let progressive Democrats shut up about war and focus entirely on talking about something else. I'm not quite cynical enough to think that was intentional. But yeah: pretty fucking convenient.
I mean, we absolutely should be standing up for bodily autonomy and against misogynist backsliding, but there's just way too much willingness to let other important issues slide instead of hammering on both (and looking for movement overlap, etc.)....