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.
Partially a function of ~2/3 of the map being barely involved in the fighting and thus the area being fought for being smaller and thus territorial gains seeming insignificant, and partially a function of Wikipedia not including reported Russian gains until well after they occur.
I'd add that it's also a function of just the size of the units involved in the fighting - it's very far from WW2 engagements where you could pass a couple 10,000s of soldiers into a newly formed breakthrough position and exploit it. Probably can't really do that with 200,000 or so Russian sodliers engaged all over the place there. Was hoping that Popasna would be bigger, now it's down to a lull again after 2 days? Was is like this in Operation Bagration? Don't know, but probably not lol
the push near popasna and from the other side of the salient is still going, but i wouldn't expect the russians to totally encircle the northern front. they're going to try and pull off a cauldron - and they've put the northern front in a bad position already regarding supply. there's really no need for the russians to move quickly on that front when they can safely bombard ukrainian positions with long range artillery. why spend lives when you can spend shells?