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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.
I was reading something yesterday that said that during the Soviet Era, after Stalin decided to be a dick, The Soviets imposed Russian on Ukraine. And by the time the USSR collapsed most of Ukraine was speaking a pidgin of Ukrainian and Russian, if not just Russian. When Ukraine wrote in to it's constitution that only Ukrainian could be the official language of the country they had to scramble to figure out what the Ukrainian language was, because it was so intermixed with Russian and there were few if any people who still spoke the original pre-Soviet Ukrainian language. Now thirty years later we're having a war which was at least partially set off by conflicts over whether Ukrainian would be the only official language or if Ukrainian and Russian would be official languages. Just the stupidest this is your brain on nationalism shit imaginable.