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.
Yesterday's discussion post.
How can this be? The Ukrainians must have at least some people in the army leadership who knows what they're doing and at some point the intel they receive must reflect reality on the ground.
Your original question was a Downfall style situation comparing Hitler's last days to Zelensky in Ukraine. Mentally unstable? Sure but Zelensky does not have real control over the nazis that are part of the military and in turn these nazis have more than enough influence to force decisions e.g Mariupol.
Even the peace treaty everyone is hoping for carries the assumption that the nazis will accept peace which is wishful thinking given the past 8 years.
I agree with this, the AFU at least was a professional army the war was never going to be easy, nobody downplayed their strength, only that they don't have the means to fight a global superpower so they don't realy have hopes of winning.