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.
Huh, I thought they had ties with the YPG that the US is working with. Maybe I don't really grasp that whole situation fully.
the YPG aren't the PKK, and in any case the alleged links between the two orgs that Turkey uses to justify ethnic cleansing don't bother the US in their occupation of the region
There's like half a dozen factions of Kurds in the border areas of Syria, Iraq, and Turkey.
The U.S. "worked with" the YPG very opportunistically and temporarily because the YPG were extremely effective at fighting ISIS, and that was good PR and simultaneously a burr in Assad's side. The YPG knew all along the U.S. would betray them, as it very much did, giving Turkey the green light to attack Rojava as it pulled all support away to simply go shore up its hold on oil fields elsewhere in Syria.