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.
So what happened to the riots in Sri Lanka? Complete radio silence since Rajapaksa resigned.
the new PM is doubling down on IMF bullshit and i saw recently they hired some evil london-based legal firm to restructure their debt so that's probably why there's radio silence rn
hopefully the people of sri lanka have enough fuel to burn down some more mansions
I've heard absolutely nothing about them since the new PM came in. He's doing some changes and stuff but fuel prices have also gone up since then so I'm not sure if they're just giving him a chance or if they've been cowed by the military or what. Would be very helpful to have more non-western comrades so they can tell us what's going on e.g. in Columbo.
Rajapaksa's resignation is presented as the result of the riots, so if that's the case it'd make sense that they'd die down and ppl would wait for some results from the new powers that be.
There was news today in the Russian media that "Russia received an appeal from Sri Lanka for help in overcoming the energy crisis" but no details at all besides that