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.
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.