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 telling a family member I fully support China's efforts to contain covid for their people and while this person agreed it was terrible that the US and West just gave up and didn't do shit to help the situation, they went into how China was going way too far. They said that people were killing themselves, that some famous singer jumped out of their hi-rise home to their death, that there was footage of people screaming and crying just wanting to go out. Of course I knew this was all bullshit, but I hadn't even been exposed to this kind of news so I didn't know how to counter it other than to say it was bullshit. I got the person I was talking with to admit that the MSM has a vested interest in demonizing China, and they agreed that there was probably too much focus on the worse aspects but insisted "all of that is still real even if it's not like that everywhere. There really are people going insane from isolation and committing suicide because of the extreme lockdowns China is imposing on its people." It was frustrating because I felt on the verge of getting them to see it was bullshit, but due to my own ignorance of what they were even talking about, I couldn't call it out for what it was. Not in the same way I could for say the Ghost of Kiev or the reality of Snake Island.
It's all projection. People in Shanghai are mad over supplies, not their fragile westoid psyches that snap if they can't window shop at a Chapters once a week.
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My understanding is that the general mood in China is "why is Shanghai such a shit show and why can't they manage this as well as every other city has?" Sexycyborg was talking about it on twitter a few weeks back.
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Mental health went down after the lockdowns stopped in the US, not during.