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.
🇨🇿😁 In the shops of Prague began to hang signs “Ukrainians are not allowed to enter.”
Vendors and managers say they are fed up with the constant theft and appalling behavior of the refugees.
Nature is healing! Westoids are becoming revoltingly racist to refugees again.
“No, I haven’t given the Ukrainian refugees significant economic support in my country. What does that have to do with them needing to steal to not starve to death? You moron, haven’t you measured the Ukrainian skull shape?”
Putin says he’s raising the minimum wage and pensions in Russia by 10% to counter inflation
Putin does more for the people than my free liberal-democratic GoodCountry government does.
:doomer:
thought the soviet union failed because they cared about people too much
I doubt he actually thinks that, it’s just a convenient propaganda line. Anyone can tell that the USSR failed because Gorbachev actively flushed it down the toilet.
Russia and China reportedly veto’d increased sanctions on the DPRK in the UN Security Council.
:sicko-wholesome:
“As of today, the aggressor conducts intensified fire along the whole line of contact and the positions of our forces in the Donetsk operational region. The enemy uses tactical rocket systems, aviation and artillery,” Hanna Maliar [Ukraine’s deputy defence minister] says.
“The situation is difficult and there are signs of escalation. The enemy has used all resources to capture our territory and surround our forces. The fighting has reached maximum intensity. The enemy attacks our positions at different points simultaneously. We are in for a very difficult and long stage of the struggle.”
sounds like they’re really moving now.
Weird. They were supposed to have run out of tanks, missiles, troops, fuel and food several times by now.
There is a series of fresh blog posts going around, by a woman who survived Mariupol. She says she kept a diary, so there is a lot of very interesting details in those posts. It’s a long read as they say, and there’s no TL;DR, but this is the first first-hand account of this sort I’ve seen so far. It’s in Russian but her prose is very terse and plain, very Google Translatable, so I’m leaving the links to machine-translated English version of her stuff below, if anyone’s interested:
How it all began
How it all began (part 2)
Part 3
Part 4
About cell towers and electricity
Part 5
Evacuation
