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'm trying to find a source for something I read last month saying that like 30% of Ukrainians approved of Bandera. Instead I found NPR both-sidesing... Uh... The holocaust.
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/05/20/312719066/hero-or-villain-historical-ukrainian-figure-symbolizes-todays-feud
Okay this article from 2014 actually cites it's source. 31% approve of Bandera, 13% have an "Absolutely positive" view of him. So that's about six million Nazis in 2014.
https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/poll-almost-half-of-ukrainians-have-negative-attitude-to-bandera-346361.html
Here's another interesting one - 80% of Western Ukrainians in 2016 supported a ban on "Communist Ideology" while only 20% in Eastern Ukraine did.
https://ratinggroup.ua/en/research/ukraine/otnoshenie_k_otdelnym_istoricheskim_lichnostyam_i_processu_dekommunizacii_v_ukraine.html
Support for a "Nationalist Ideology ban" was bout half in the south and east but only 20% in the west.
It certainly paints a picture of an ideologically divided nation. It also suggests that while Azov and it's fellow travelers in the army might number only a few thousand, there are millions who seem to agree with them.
Yep. Ukraine has been a new front on a new cold war. Also. The Ukrainian Communist Party was banned by Poroshenko in I think 2015.
the social pressure to praise bandera is so high that even Zelensky has done it. You get the sense that he has a gun to his head whenever he talks like that.
Wow. That is not a good look Mr. Zelensky. You do not, in fact, have to hand it to him.
What is Zelensky even playing at? If anything the right is going to come out of this stronger than ever before. How much time does he think he has left to run?
i can't say. maybe they threatened his family or something. i heard he was in the paradise papers and had taken money from some oligarch.
He seems to have been in bed with Igor Kolomoisky (who is the primary funder of Azov, Aidar, and other neo-Nazi groups) to the tune of about $40M.
I'd love to know what hte Paradise papers said. I've heard wild quotes for his net wealth from low millions to 500 million.
https://hexbear.net/post/194568/comment/2444132
I also found this article of Medvedev talking shit about Ukraine. The Google Translate is pretty rough but there's nothing surprising in it that I saw.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5028300?from=glavnoe_1#id2123318
I need to stop or I'm going to end up digging in to Russia's Nazis who are involved in this whole shit-show, and I can only deal with so many nationalist fascists in one day.