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.
While I'm maybe not quite as positive about Russian accounts of progress as you (mostly I think they've taken heavier losses, and they were trying initially for a decapitation strike in Kiev as a secondary objective, one that very nearly succeeded), we're broadly in agreement.
The recent Russian advances in areas so fortified that they make the Verdun Salient look undefended indicate that Ukrainian forces are finally falling apart despite putting up a better fight than I frankly expected, something they probably would have done weeks ago if not for throwing 14-year-old boys and old men with 60-year-old western equipment into battle and every US spysat pointing out Russian troop movements in real time for them.