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.
Are European elites starting to realise what they have gotten themselves into? Pure ideology can't distract the European bourgeoisie from the fact that they are losing huge amounts of money on the kamikaze sanctions forever. Is the high they got from being united in the defense of western liberal democracy etc. beginning to wear off?
There is not enough renewables in the world to replace Russian gas atm. Solar panels are years behind in production. Europe would have to rely mostly on coal and wind, but it would require a massive upgrade in infrastructure like substations in any area built before electric furnaces became a thing.
It was never going to happen. Like Russia the EU is talking big in public and then negotiating behind the scenes pragmatically.
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The EU is divided and incoherent. They aren’t being pragmatic, they are stumbling and being pushed by events. Hungary and other nations are vetoing their oil embargoes, Hungary is getting pissed about loss of sovereignty and EU overreach and might even Hungrexit if they keep this up.
EU keeps saying that gas-for-rubles breaches sanctions but also is allowed, mixed messaging leading to lurching business crises and economic damage.
Poland has stopped paying for Russian gas, but keeps siphoning it anyway and buying it through middlemen who reverse it back to them. There’s not enough gas for everyone of Poland isn’t paying and still taking a portion. This is causing anger and mistrust between nations like Poland and Germany.
France seems to be very hesitant about all this compared to UK and Poland, despite being less reliant on Russian energy.
All in all, I would say this is causing growing fractures in the EU and in NATO.
I think "Hexit" is smoother and because there are no other EU nations starting with "H" it wont be confusing.