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.
I wouldn't go that far, Russian telegram is absolutely flooded everyday with pictures of dead Ukrainian soldiers.
Thousands of bodies, and I see nothing analogous coming out of Ukrainian telegrams. I haven’t even seen a single captured russian soldier for weeks.
Contrast that with Russian telegram which shows tons of destroyed pixel-camo armor, large groups surrendering (sometimes 10-1000 people) and trenches filled with Ukrainian corpses…
It’s clear what side is getting the worst of “attrition” warfare in Phase 2
Yet westoid media keeps going on and on about the heavy losses suffered by Russia.
They have to, it’s a useful cope. Yeah Ukrainian forces are taking heavy losses… this can no longer be denied… but but but but Russians are doing even worse!!!
It’s a “I’m rubber you’re glue” defense out of an increasingly desperate Ukraine, which the western media quotes diligently
It's a useful lie to justify sending more money and weapons to Ukraine. If they admitted that Ukraine would inevitably lose, this would be harder to justify.
Yeah but the news told me russia is actually losing because "their advance has slowed" lol
I guess it's expanded more since the earlier days when most of the heavy fighting was in Mariupol. That honestly makes the western obsession with Azov even more perplexing. Unless you just assume that the end goal of this propaganda war is to drum up support for funding stay behind Nazis and stochastic terror in Ukraine after the war ends, which is absolutely what's happening. They're just so damn blatant about it.