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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It’s worth noting as well that the USSR was vastly more socially progressive than the west. It was not until the USSR was destroyed and looted, and the people of Russia returned to destitution and ignorance by the west, that homophobic reaction reared its head.
Same goes for Iran. It was much more socially progressive until the west destroyed it.
Now the west claims moral superiority over both and uses its social progressive stances as bludgeons to beat the nations it previously destroyed and made like this.
To ignore this context and immediately jump to “huh I guess the Chinese only like Russian culture because they are both reactionary bigots” without any evidence of that, is an extension of the arrogance of the west