No update today.
Somebody commented during my small break last week that I should try and insert breaks in, say, a day or so every week or two weeks, which I think I will try and do - though they might be irregular (i.e. on different days).
Happy International Day for Biological Diversity!
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 already saw variations of this on couple other places:
"Former Ukrainian defensive positions are full of abandoned corpses of their soldiers; They are left there to rot on purpose, by orders from above, both to hide loses and avoid paying money to their families. Without bodies, these soldiers are simply lost in action, and for such they don't have to pay a dime. There is a bunch of similar stuff on Telegram "
[translated from Russian source - https://voenhronika.ru/publ/vojna_na_ukraine/morpekhi_s_kamchatki_zasnjali_ogromnye_poteri_vsu_poslednie_svodki_s_ukrainy_utro_22_maja_16_video/60-1-0-12170]