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.
Looks like Russia is being very firm on their hold on Kherson and Zaporozhye, claiming that they will never return to being Ukrainian. Every month that Zelensky and his US handlers dismiss peace, Ukraine permanently loses more territory. And yet they still continue to insist that for peace talks to commence, Russia must retreat to pre-war positions, which is beyond absurd.
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All this Zaporozhye talk makes it almost certain that next major op for Russian forces will be Zaporozhye City itself after the Donbass op is done. The integration project is already firmly set in motion and the only remaining step before completing the project is the city itself. I wonder though which Oblast will be in line for integration after Kherson and Zaporozhye, Nikolaev seems the most logical to me
Nikolaev, then Odessa
If they go as far as Odessa then they'd probably be taking Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk as well to make it Novorossiya proper.