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.
Western framing of the Azovstal surrender as an ‘evacuation’ or a ‘retreat’ is incredible. From the fact that they’re all using exactly the same language, I assume they’re just writing exactly what the Ukrainian government has told them?
According to the recent radio war nerd episode with a western journalist just back from Ukraine, the UKR military basically prohibits journalists from any access to the front lines, active duty troops, hospitals, etc. They set up a ministry of information or something in what used to be a brewery and all the western journos just hang out there on nice couches and do stenography.
i’d say they’ve handled the information war excellently, but then again it’s probably really easy to do that when all western journalists want to do is write adulatory puff pieces and stoke naziesque fears of asiatic hordes lmao
Yeah I see these takes about Zelensky being super good at media but it doesn’t seem that way to me, it just seems like the western journalist is selected by their willingness to believe in a narrative. Hard to fuck up asking for more missiles when there’s a legion of english major nerds falling all over themselves to write hagiographies about you.
There is no denying that the Ukrainian propaganda effort is working excellently for them. It wouldn’t work for Russia though, even if they had the same skills and audacity.
Telling people what they want to hear gas always been orders of magnitude easier than telling them something they hate to hear.
A Danish MSM outlet has a headline that claims that “their mission is completed”. You have to read the article in order to figure out that they are not in Ukrainian-controlled territory and nowhere does it mention that the Azov Nazis are essentially POW’s.
Worse than POWs, the Russian state duma just passed a bill forbidding trading of Nazi prisoners. POW can normally hope for exchange, Azov will rot in Russian prisons forever
I can’t wait for the public trials to start. Nazis will be facing consequences and westoids will be seething and crying about how unfair it is
