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.
That NATO article from Politico. Dear lord.
Like, Operation GLADIO didn't run smoothly either. There was friction between the CIA and MI6 over who would arm and train the terrorists because, at the end of the day, it's a racket. Now we're just expecting Europe to "restructure NATO" while keeping the United States in charge and we don't expect their nationalism or Euroskepticism to get in the way of that? Also rich that they're trying to paint the organization that is entirely beholden to America and that every European country denounced as undermining their sovereignty and democratic practices in the 90s as the bastion for "liberal democracy".