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.
This war could turn into an insurgency vs counter-insurgency type of conflict at some point, but as it stands now, the fighting in Ukraine much more resembles trench warfare of the type found on the eastern front in WW2, rather than what the US found in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Which, don't get me wrong, the western weapons Ukraine is getting are certainly blunting Russia's offensive capabilities. But there's a relatively clear cut frontline, and the fact that the Ukrainians are fighting from fixed defensive fortifications means that the Russians have the ability to sit back and hammer Ukrainian positions with artillery and airstrikes in a way that the US was very rarely able to do in Iraq or Afghanistan.