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.
The last Ukraine/Russia conflict megathread.
I'm hoping the "second half" of its value comes a year+ down the line, when, as this project continues, we will have a giant "database" of news sources from which countries can be searched and daily trends can be tracked. Imagine Wikipedia's "On This Day", at least for events during and since 2022, but for leftists.
I guess it's kinda... not necessarily contradictory, but something this granular is, in my mind, opposed to the way of treating history as determined by large-scale, long-lasting trends and forces, with fluidity over the years and then sudden ruptures. But every data set needs data points, and I wanna create those data points for others to analyse as a data set.
As a preteen who had just read 1984 and was new to the internet, I started a notebook writing down headlines about the Iraq invasion. My goal was to track changes in the narrative. I only committed for a couple weeks and the notebook is long lost. I consider this a much much better version of that idea
Edit: someone with free access to a printer please make hardcopies for the future...