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.
It's so funny that the two main people fighting against the EU and NATO making catastrophically bad moves for like, global stability, is Erdogan and fucking Orban. These scumbags are the people who are doing anything at all to pull these organizations back from the edge, even if it's purely for their own selfish reasons (which in Hungary's case isn't bad if it like, keeps your citizens' lights on, but for Turkey it's just like, fuck). All of the leaders of liberal democracies, the pinnacle of the "meritocracy", are so fucking keen to self-destruct for the sake of idealistic reasons that hurt themselves much more than they hurt Russia.
Well, I guess China is sorta in the background with their popcorn and occasionally shouting "No, stop fighting!" but they've got their own fish to fry with ASEAN and Taiwan and coronavirus so, can't blame them too much. And it's not their thing to directly intervene most of the time.