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.
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.
So according to a comment by @farter the Canadian sniper everyone thought was dead that mysteriously stopped posting on Facebook (yes, this guy was posting on Facebook in the middle of the war), survived somehow and is back in Canada.
According to him he almost died after taking fire from a Russian tank that killed two Ukrainian conscripts next to him that gave up their position by getting up and smoking a cigarette together. After that incident he phoned his wife an hour later and left Ukraine. Also many suspicious arms deals and ex western special forces getting jobs in the Ukraine army to go behind enemy lines.
Man, that genuinely fucking sucks. If the West had just abided by the goddamn Minsk agreements and stopped poking a stick into the bear's back, they'd probably still be alive.
It's very bad, war is horrifying.
War is the worst thing that can happen. : (
Are they ever really "ex" special forces, though?
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