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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.
Americans just spent the last 6 years calling each other fascists and Nazis. They pretty much all tune out to the insult as hyperbolic when it’s coming from “the other side”.
Liberals also think that we should solve everything with words (or at least others should, we get to use democracy bombs). Even if you get them to agree Ukraine has a major Nazi problem, they still will turn around and say “that doesn’t give Russia the right to invade and kill the Nazis”. Remember these are the people that could not agree whether or not it was ok to punch Richard Spencer.
I saw some of that in the wild today, albeit from a few years ago on twitter. "We can't just denounce Nazis we have to sit down with them and have a frank discussion and then they will change their minds!" Liberalism projects a delusional view of the world.