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.
Kissinger, on his birthday, has been added to the Ukrainian semi-official enemies-of-the-state list Mirotvorets * :michael-laugh:
Reason:
Because of what he said in Davos**:
As WaPo suggests :
Which is also, as WaPo writes in the very next sentence, what Zelensky demanded a few days earlier: :stalin-stressed:
So why is Kissinger on the bad guys' list??? Probably because despite these quotes and explanations, both WaPo and The Telegraph (the latter originally reported the Kissinger quote) used highly provokative headlines (and as we know, few people read beyond a headline):
Kissinger says Ukraine should cede territory to Russia to end war
Henry Kissinger: Ukraine must give Russia territory
Russian-language media has picked it up this way too and ran with it, making a hot delicious meal out of it. Without wishing him a very good die, which is unacceptable.
* Mirotvorets "is a Ukrainian Kyiv-based website that publishes personal information of people who are considered to be "enemies of Ukraine", or, as the website itself states, "whose actions have signs of crimes against the national security of Ukraine, peace, human security, and the international law". The website was launched in December 2014 by Ukrainian politician and activist Georgy Tuka." It is full of communists, artists and politicians who visited Crimea, reporters--whoever has said something that goes against whatever the current Ukrainian state line is.
** In a WaPo op-ed in 2014 Kissinger has actually voiced similar things re the role of Ukraine in the US-Russia relationship, so I guess he should've been placed on Mirotvorets much sooner:
critical support to ukrainian fascists in their mission to capture and kill henry kissinger
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Kissinger realized he doesn't have much time left so he decided to have a good take to try and make us feel weird about celebrating when he dies.
:jokerfied:
Man, reading the wiki page for this website and it seems like its all but explicitly an assassination list, even with how sanitized wikipedia tries to make it.
Just coincidentally publishing personal details of former politicians that end up murdered days later.