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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.
Remember seeing a video that featured an African politician saying that he basically had the same position in his country as Nancy Pelosi does in hers. Yet she refused to speak with him because she would only see heads of State. This was why he had more respect for the Chinese who did send their equal and treated him like he mattered.
"Oh you are the Prime minister of Canada? You are part of the British Commonwealth? Fuck off I will only talk to your queen."
https://youtu.be/P5uzxV8ub9k he mentions that around 19:00
Just in general, that is an excellent video to show to China-hating radlibs as an example of how China is helping the world, helping these small, developing countries in Africa in stark contrast to how the US has been and continues to just fuck them over. This one is definitely going in my list of "things to send to lib family." Thanks for linking to it.