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.
Haven't seen any posts on this, :reddit-logo: is giddy with excitement: Lithuania recognises war in Ukraine as genocide, Russia as terrorist state
Just absolute projection: Lithuania has been totally happy to commit troops to the civilian-targeting NATO campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, but now can't abide by the Russians showing extreme restraint in not completely glassing the entire country. Obviously civilians have been caught in the crossfire and that is horrible, but citing Ukrainian propaganda as evidence of a "genocide" really makes my blood boil.
All of these insignificant NATO lackeys making grandiose statements about the war is the geopolitical equivalent of "let me speak to the manager".
More like the geopolitical equivalent of "notice me senpai"
Lithuania really going for that "most cringe Baltic country" award.
Lithuania has been a hot take factory for a while now. They also started shit with China over nothing.
And that was a huge L, but when the economy suffered they got pissed