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.
This is what winning looks like?
The Ukrainian army is retreating west from Donbass in a panic!
Watch the media narrative shift within the next few days/weeks from "Ukraine is winning Putin is embaressed" to "Here is how Ukraine can turn things around and why Putin will ultimately lose".
Honestly just happy to see footage of Ukrainians getting the fuck out of there and not dead in a field for once.
Amen, a proxy war between two decaying right-wing shitholes is not worth dying over.
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Competing great powers are historically not really better for the periphery than a clear hegemon. Stuff like the struggle for Africa was driven by European competition. Also with a clear hegemon the task of the revolution is somewhat easier. The french revolution stuggled because all other powers of Europe allied against it, the same goes for the Soviets, if there is a clear hegemon a revolution there is a game over.
Sometimes I think some people here would have cheered Kaiser Wilhelm for sticking it to the British Empire.
That's probably not really going to be because of the war, the war will just be a proof of existing underlying material reality
And I'm not sure China is ready. I might be more optimistic if they had had ten more years to build up
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Sorry that you're currently dying in this war, I hope you get better
It is a truck full of fascists that spent 8 years of shelling and launching missiles against civilians. If you care about the war ending sooner then you don't want these people to continue to survive and fight.
Some of them may be fascists but more of them are probably just poor conscripts. When Russia is done a large majority of the Nazis in Ukraine will get/have gotten what they deserve.
Welp, that's it then