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.
More likely because as a NATO member, Turkey would really not like to go to war with Russia, they depend economically on Russia quite some (produce, tourism, energy, as well as some military equipment), and Sweden and especially Finland joining NATO increases the likelihood of that 200%. Erdogan is also playing his own game, with pan-Turkyism, some mini-imperial but real aspirations, so he really doesn't need that shit now. Also considering that his bet on devaluing the lyra, plus the global crisis, is not doing any favors to their economy rn, he clearly doesn't want to escalate any of this.
While this is no doubt true, to answer @mrbigcheese, Erdogan did say that Sweden and Finland were “guesthouses for terrorist organisations” referring specifically to the Kurds. So ostensibly yeah, that's the reasoning.
Turkey is such a shitshow. America just let them steamroll the kurds after the kuds helped destroy isis. Fuck.