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'll agree that that is a bad analogy. Russia isn't a victim. Russia is stepping in to protect victims.
Eastern Ukrainians have been living through hell for 8 years. Nazis took over Ukraine's government and illegalized the native language of 13% of the population of the nation. Some states decided they wanted more power over their regional government. So the Nazis went and started killing them. Zelenskyy was elected on one promise, ending the civil war but didn't deliver. Russia convinced Ukraine to have a sit down with France and Germany's leaders so they could come up with a peaceful solution. Ukraine failed to implement any of the agreed solutions. The killing of innocent Ukrainian civilians by Nazis did not stop. Russia tried again and with France and Germany as mediators Ukraine agreed top do certain things to end the civil war. But then the Ukrainian government did nothing to implement what they had agreed to do. So Russia mobilized their army on their border to try to threaten Ukraine to think and stop the Nazis from murdering people. Ukraine decided to dramatically increase the attacks on civilians essentially calling Russia bluff.
NATO expansionism is a background theme but really doesn't need top be brought into the discussion to justify Russia's invasion.