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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.
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"Russia will be forced to take retaliatory steps, both of a military-technical and other nature, in order to stop threats to its national security arising," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Sounds like maybe you might be right, hopefully this is just posturing
I think Russia has previously stated that NATO expansion in Finland will mean that they will station nuclear weapons in the Baltic area.
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The soviets definitely would have put some there.
They have them already but NATO expansion will lead to strengthening of Russian military presence in the region.
Also, all those fish eating scandis already are effectively NATO. They have militaries that cooperate with NATO, run joint drills and are traine on the same tactics. Them joining is mostly formality. Ukraine joining is not a formality, it’s a major power grab by the west
It would be very interesting to see what NATO would do if Russia rolled tanks in to Helsinki. Personally I think NATO would hang them out to dry, maybe launch symbolic air strikes across the border. I don't see all of NATO committing to full mobilization for a country with a GDP equivalent to Musk's stock portfolio.
On the other hand, St. Petersburg is a pleasant ~200km drive from the Finnish border. But I suppose it doesn't change much since Finland is already very western and also Estonia (Narva) is closer.
Finland, famously easy to drive tanks on. Not like we call them that because of their vast swampland.