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.
I'll admit that after the Ukrainians pushed back in Kharkiv/Kharkov I briefly wondered if I'd been in a bubble and the Russians were actually on the road to loss and disaster just as the mainstream media has been saying for months. But the breakthroughs in Donbass have put that to bed.
We were all being gaslit hard. Most people here resisted it well, although a few posters completely bought the western narratives and doomposted here constantly about Bucha massacre, the Russian “defeat” at Snake Island, etc.
It was, admittedly, a difficult month due to the totality of opinion towards one goal and the lockstep of the media, but we do finally have the validation that it was the strategy all along - to weaken the Ukrainians with artillery barrages and then push. Being right by holding a conviction after a long time of appearing on the surface to be wrong feels better to me than bouncing between different realities to avoid being owned, even if it meant enduring the people saying that Russia was losing, losing, lost, even sometimes, as you say, in this megathread.