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.
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Competing great powers are historically not really better for the periphery than a clear hegemon. Stuff like the struggle for Africa was driven by European competition. Also with a clear hegemon the task of the revolution is somewhat easier. The french revolution stuggled because all other powers of Europe allied against it, the same goes for the Soviets, if there is a clear hegemon a revolution there is a game over.
Sometimes I think some people here would have cheered Kaiser Wilhelm for sticking it to the British Empire.
That's probably not really going to be because of the war, the war will just be a proof of existing underlying material reality
And I'm not sure China is ready. I might be more optimistic if they had had ten more years to build up