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.
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Russia: "If you pay for gas according to our scheme then you will receive it. If you do not, then you won't."
EU: "But that's blackmail! You're weaponizing energy exports! That's not fair! International rules-based order! Terrorist state! Guess what, we're gonna fill up on gas for a year and then give it up, and get it from other countries! Even if they don't have the energy infrastructure yet, we'll just patiently wait until they do and then we'll--"
Russia: "You did not pay for gas, so you will not receive it."
EU: "NOOO! You can't do that! We had these year-long plans! Evil orcs!"
It's almost like these people haven't had to pay rent before in their life.
Narrator: "They hadn't"
We literally confiscated their foreign reserves. We're the ones who decided that economic assets are a weapon to be used against geopolitical rivals.
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