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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.
I actually saw polling on what Westerners thought about various Russian pro-war narratives. The ones with the highest agreement from western normies was “Ukraine should not join NATO” and “Ukraine is in an ongoing civil war” and “not our business, we should not interfere or sanction Russia and hurt ourselves”.
The ones with the worst polling were de-Nazification and irredentist territorial claims
What percentage of those people actualy believe the Nazis exist in the first place?
Remember the No fly zone polls and how they change when people are told what it actualy means and the result would be WW3.