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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probably just throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks. If something proves to be effective, the'll know which weapons to send
also they are trying to test how capable their weapons are against Russia
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it's not, but it could give at least some info on how effective those weapons are.
It also seems like the west is trying to find a wunderwaffe - something they can send in relatively small amounts and doesn't completely suck shit. Initially it was the javelins and the bayraktar drones but those systems don't seem to work that well
They refuse to accept Russia is a military power therefore they will keep sending little bits of shit weapons hoping it will work.
What Ukraine needs is impossible to give them, they need to be transformed into NATO mechanized infantry and armor divisions, but this would require 500 billion or more not to mention the trained manpower. This needed to happen years ago before the war. But then Putin rightfully understood the timing window was closing. If Ukraine could get proper NATO equipment and training things would be different.
But giving a Javelin to conscript now a isn't going to do anything. Tons of reports already, as soon as Ukrainian troops give away their position the Russians drop everything on them, artillery, airstrikes, missiles etc. And that is all assuming the shit weapon actually works.
You kill a Russian T-80? Cool now your battalion is going to get shelled to death for the next 24h. In any case as long as the US keeps spending money on shit like this it is good for everyone else and we need to hope they continue.
And the author of that article, David Axe, says that the US should give just 30(!) of them to Ukraine! Russia has thousands of artillery pieces!
You can skip the "study" part, all these are overpriced pieces of junk. PS Russians already have Switchblades - https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/05/27/captured-us-made-switchblade-drones-well-use-them-against-ukraine/
When the point of the war is political objectives and not military ones. :smoking-fish:
the point is that they need to be replaced, which will benefit those that rule you..
We get to funnel more money to the MIC and the longer the war goes on the more Russia and Ukraine get bled. Once Ukraine is nice and indebted to the US we can force them into austerity and then they'll be a new source of cheap labour and resources.