It's the second biggest one ever for you dirty, dirty content hogs.
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 think it's pretty clear that the stories of the Cuban government being extremely brutal and repressive and generally authoritarian are mostly propaganda. However, I think it's kind of a shit thing to call the things that propaganda says about it "based". The state punishing people—whether in fact or in fiction—really shouldn't be applauded.
Yes, you're probably correct and I should be slightly more critical in my support of Cuba - my reasoning was that I assume that most of the people they are punishing are likely to be serious reactionaries or western plants or something similar to that that would need to be dealt with one way or another in order to prevent the state from weakening and thus the US being able to take advantage of it. Like, if China somehow managed to get a hold of the people at Radio Free Asia and put them in jail for 10 years, then the US would absolutely be like "These poor journalists were speaking truth against a repressive regime! China is an Orwellian state!" while I myself would be celebrating that those losers got what's coming for them.
But yeah, it's likely genuinely innocent or mostly innocent people get caught in the crossfire and that does genuinely suck.