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 that'll be Luhansk wrapped up then. Progress in Donestk has always been slow, Mariupol obviously taking a lot of time and resources, and it's borders being further from Russia, but now I wonder how long the operation will take there. The Ukrainians have obviously known they'd be coming there specifically, I imagine they're well dug in and fortified. I don't know how the geography and urban centers may differ from previously taken locations, but it could be rough. Maybe they'll try to flank the whole region, I remember seeing a pincer like shape forming early in the war to the west of Donestk, though that seems to have been abandoned, but still might be the best way to wrap this up quickly than a full assault from Luhansk, though it seems that's where the main body is right now as it finishes it's actions there, so that would require some reorganizing.
Any thoughts on what's Don-next?
You roll it up from behind imo, there's probably going to be a fight for Slovyansk and then right after Kramatorsk, from there it'll probably be advancements from the north of Donetsk since there'll be less fortifications there.
I needed that.
Slovyansk and kramatorsk are the biggest clusterfuck expected, they are fortified, cross firable, and big. Kharkov is unassailable, unless army and economy explodes into smithereens. They’ll need 80k troops for one city, and have giant front to defend.