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.
There have been a few indications over the past month or so that they might annex Novorossiya (Southern Ukraine). It's looking pretty likely at this point.
that's really wild. i'd have been in the "nobody is crazy enough to start a war of outright annexation in the modern age" camp a few months ago.
I was too until I started looking in to the actual history of Ukraine and realized it's an administrative sub-unit of the USSR rather than a well defined nation state, and that ethnic tensions between Russia Ukrainians and Ukrainian Ukrainian nationalists have been boiling since Ukraine declared independence 30 years ago. Crimea, for instance, has always has since the deportation of the Crimean Tartars in the 40s had a huge Russian Ethnic majority, and they voted overwhelmingly to split from Ukraine and join the RF, and they continue to support that decision with 80% in favor eight years later. Ukraine's dreams of re-taking Crimea are delusional; They'd be invading a foreign ethnic group that would absolutely take up arms to oppose them.
It basically falls down to - Western Ukrainian is full of Ukrainian Nationalists, Eastern Ukraine has a large Russian speaking Minority that kind of just went along with the Ukraine thing because that's where they happened to live when the USSR fell apart, and the Ukrainian Nationalists have been trying to start shit for decades, and finally did start shit when Euromaiden coup'd the legitimate if unpopular government and replaced them with an illegitimate and unpopular coup government.
Who needs they Novorussy ate