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.
America isn't fascist (yet). They did all that just with regular old liberalism.
I'm not personally sure if we're ever gonna see something as explicitly fascist as Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, at least in "developed" countries. Like, I feel like the capitalists went way overboard in those two cases and then the rest of the world's capitalists were just like "Woah woah woah, there's no need to go THAT far, we can do the same thing but with liberalism, and we can make ourselves seem outwardly good to the world!"
Maybe if shit REALLY hits the fan and there's a genuine communist movement sweeping the west made up of tens of millions of people in the US and the US has to do the Business Plot and one day there's just a military general on TV in the oval office declaring that everything's fine and cool and there's no need to worry but there's gonna be a couple changes to the system. But even then, maybe all our capitalists will be relatively feckless failchildren by then and they'll all flee to New Zealand while the whole country is on fire, both from forest fires and molotovs.
I'm sure there's already been a hundred different discussions on here about this very topic.
Aime Cesaire argued that fascism was colonialism turned back on Europe. A settler colony like America or Australia or South Africa or Israel is always already fascist.