Apologies, this one is smaller than usual, as I'm gonna be very busy over the next few days. It's the same amount of headlines, just not as much quoted from them.
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.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
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.
The western media is nothing if it isn't obsessed with the acts of the individual, and treating each individual day as separate from the last, rather than considering the entire war and the realities of the front.
Kinda unrelated, but I've noticed that a very common media trope is to start the story with the story of a single person. I'm not sure if that's considered "good" or "bad" journalism or not but it's increasingly grating on me. It's feels like a miniature version of when cooking recipe sites begin with an entire autobiography. My cynical side is telling me it's to try and instill some sense of empathy out of your average westerner where there may otherwise be little to none, as they're also conditioned to think in terms of individuals.
Say the Ghost of Kiev really did shoot down 6 Russian planes on one day.
Say on that same day a volley of Russian cruise missiles wiped out a dozen Ukrainian planes on the tarmac.
Anyone who watched Western media would firmly believe that day was a triumph for Ukraine, and only Russian and Ukrainian MoDs would know otherwise.
A yes, the seeds of the bogus trend story.
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It is quite hard to report on war in terms of interdiction strike frequency on rail lines carrying key truck transmission parts, admittedly. Even though those sorts of things are what determines all but the quickest wars.