No update today, apologies. I intended to make one today but then numerous events and happenstances occurred. Tomorrow will be a return to your daily scheduled programming.
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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New neoliberalism, same as the old neoliberalism
Those last two paragraphs really summarize the whole thing. Like, America came at this economic deal primarily as a way to counter China, and then had to be like "Alright. So. What do we do to persuade these countries to join this anti-China alliance? Uhh, a few tens of millions of dollars towards, uh, fishing?" I assume all the countries in the deal are aware of that fact and I hope they're able to play both sides, e.g. continue to get billions of dollars in infrastructure from Chinese investment such as in Cambodia, and also fleece what cash they can from the US, and then if the US goes "Okay, we gave you some money for like, urban development that introduced a racism factory to your country that pays its workers the absolute bare minimum to keep them alive. Wanna put our missiles in your country?" and they just go "Well, uh, you see, we'll do an eight year program to investigate the feasibility of this project..."
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