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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Guess it depends on whether Zelensky will come to the table with any amount of sensibility this time. Crimea and Donbass is lost forever to him, so that's a minimum. Not sure if Russia is gonna give back Kherson, nor Zapor. oblast. So maybe the deal is: Russia withdraws from Kharkiv, doesn't attack Zapor. city, doesn't advance in Mykolaiv, and in return, Ukraine recognizes current Russian gains, doesn't join NATO, doesn't join the EU (as I think Russia recently changed tack on that), has security guarantees in which Russia has a veto. Not sure if either Russia nor Ukraine will be happy with that deal but the time to make diplomacy is when Ukraine had concrete leverage, and that was a month or so ago. Given that their economy is almost irreversibly fucked, I'm not sure what else they could do.