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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.

  • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]31•2 years ago

    Success in battle is also a function of strategy, operational employment, doctrine, training, leadership, culture and the will to fight. Russia held and continues to hold an overwhelming numerical advantage in manpower and weapon systems, but Ukraine holds the advantage in every other factor.

    This is some John Madden-level word salad bullshit.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]20•2 years ago

      Strategy: make trenches and hold civilians hostage while waiting for the enemy to come to them. Get bombed to shit by superior artillery and air superiority in the meantime because why not. When that inevitably fails claim victory and heroism anyway!

      Operational deployment: Literaly just reduced to using civilian vehicles at this point. 1 2. This is what winning looks like.

      Training: THEY LITERALY CAN'T USE THE GARBAGE SHIT WESTERN WEAPONS/TANKS YOU ARE SENDING THEM YOU IDIOT!

      Leadership: Half the time it is training by some US millennial who got a medal for killing civilians in Iraq, the other half is the strategic masterminds that think holding territory at all costs is how you win wars.

      Culture and will to fight: I'll give this one, only fanatical nazis would emulate German WW2 strategies with enthusiasm, lose territory and manpower and continue to do the same dumb shit anyway. Can't argue here.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]4•2 years ago

      Ukraine's army functionally didn't exist in 2014 and is being run like a puppet by NATO spooks.