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.
Australia. The one that I'm close to who is most gleeful about it doesn't watch the news and usually just exhausted after work to really talk about anything. Ah well
Oof. Gotcha. Well, at the risk of sounding like I'm making excuses for them—which is not really my intent—I suppose it's difficult to put much effort into research and analysis when your own local circumstances are exhausting and difficult. One thing I can say is that anarchists tend to respond well in a mutual aid scenario. Perhaps offer to share meals and talk about workplace organizing (a little emotional labor) and the like. Just a thought.
They mean well, they're just uh... Sometimes still infested with lib brainworms. Real "no two countries with a McDonalds have gone to war" hours. When we have time.
The war euphoria here is real though. Holy shit :(