No update today or tomorrow.
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.
Something interesting to note when looking at the history of countries by GDP PPP. The Bush years were when the US was truly a hyper power. Its economy was on a whole different field than anybody else.
You at least had a few countries with in the same trillion dollar range in the 90's, but by 2000 the US had reached ten trillion and every other country hadn't come close. It once again became a superpower when China's economy entered the same range, and in 2016 China surpassed it. That's also around the same time the propaganda and attempts at color revolution really kicked off.
In fairness, this also happened to be when China began to seriously integrate its provinces into the national economy rather than let Hong Kong and Macau operate as western vassal states.