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.
At the beginning of the special operation I noticed a huge uptick in down voting of anything slightly left on the Australian sub. The sub was center-left pretty solidly for years but then all the sudden regular users who usually had good takes that were generally upvoted were getting smashed on everything. Where I noticed the big change was a ACAB post about a police officer who killed an aboriginal where the judge supressed previous trials that involved excessive force complaints and text messages where he talked about getting away with stuff because the outback is like the wild west. A few users with little to no post history were saying "cop good" and getting up voted really highly, many people were saying "bad cop" and they were all down voted really badly. The number of comments were regular but the levels of up/downvotes were insane. Reddit is a cess pit now. (it always was but its worse lately)