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.
Finland will be cut off from Russian natural gas supply starting at 7am tomorrow (May 21) for refusing to pay in rubles or via the euro to ruble payment scheme. And in response, Finland and Estonia will jointly lease a floating LNG terminal from a US company for 10 years.
weird how all these sanctions against russia seem to benefit the US at the expense of europe! i'm sure it's just a coincidence that this keeps happening. ah well, we may be diving headfirst into poverty and shortages but at least we're sticking it to putler and totally ruining the russian economy!
Yeah, and probably the LNG will be way more expensive because transferring gas via pipeline should be less energy intensive than liquefying gas, shipping it, and then reversing the process. I could be wrong on that since I don't really know how that process works.
They turn off the gas if you don't pay your gas bill. Everyone who's ever paid an utility bill knows that it's how these things work.
So far it looks like Finnish media is at least reporting it this way, that it is the logical result of their decision not to pay. It is better than some of the articles that came out when Poland was cut off, that Russia was simply doing it to punish Poland unprovoked