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.
Its a false premise.
The Ukranian army vastly increased artillery shelling on the breakaway republics the longer Russia refused to invade.
Literally increasing exponentially day by day. Predicting invasion while doing everything to provoke it and escalating isn't anything impressive.
I would say at this point it's fairly obvious the news was clued in that Ukraine fully intended to escalate attacks on civilians until Russia felt the need to intervene.