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.
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.