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.
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.
Some other headlines that may be of interest since I was reading Finnish news:
What will happen if Russia soon closes the natural gas tap to Finland? Read the expert’s answers to four key questions (Translated) Answers from Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä
And then this one, I mean Mannerheim accepted the help of Nazis during WW2 and sided with the Whites during the Finnish civil war… maybe not a Nazi but still a piece of shit
"Which famous Finns in history will Moscow accuse of being Nazis?"
Russia has smeared Pippi Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren as a Nazi as Sweden moves closer to joining Nato.
Posters have appeared in Moscow defaming the Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren as a Nazi. That said, Hufvudstadsbladet(siirryt toiseen palveluun) reports that Finland will likely see similar influence campaigns as Russia attempts to justify its actions in Ukraine.
A Swedish military expert told HBL that Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland’s most famous military leader, and longtime president Urho Kekkonen were likely candidates for smear campaigns aiming to cast a shadow on Finland.
A Russian troll factory has meanwhile set its sights on targets in the Finnish media following a call for action by the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Greenpeace activists protest at the Helsinki central railway station to stop facilitating the export of Russian coal via rail, hanging a banner “Stop Russian Coal Trains”. (Cargo trains were stopped initially but restarted after clarification that these did not break EU sanctions.) The state rail operator VR agreed with the protestors, saying they are already arranging for these trains to stop.
Damn I’d love a translation this is hilarious. I predict we will keep getting more and more of these interviews as Ukraine loses more ground, they’ll maybe look to blame the US “aid” rather than their own incompetence?
Even if this is propaganda and 50-75% actualy works that together with all the missile strikes on these shipments means maybe 1 in 10 of these actualy get to the front lines and actually gets fired at a Russian tank?
Still tons and tons of pictures of captured US equipment almost every day too.
