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.
aaaand he was assassinated :sadness:
Yep, and the patsy they had chosen for it was unanimously acquitted. Oops. Then the other suspect for the assassination up and died, so oh well, case closed! Shows over!
I pasted this earlier in the thread. Just some basic info on him from wikipedia for those who don't want to click through:
I'd never heard of him before, but what a fascinating character.
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Palme was a pivotal and polarizing[1] figure domestically as well as in international politics from the 1960s onward. He was steadfast in his non-alignment policy towards the superpowers, accompanied by support for numerous liberation movements following decolonization including, most controversially, economic and vocal support for a number of Third World governments. He was the first Western head of government to visit Cuba after its revolution, giving a speech in Santiago praising contemporary Cuban revolutionaries.
Frequently a critic of Soviet and American foreign policy, he expressed his resistance to imperialist ambitions and authoritarian regimes, including those of Francisco Franco of Spain, Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, António de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, Gustáv Husák of Czechoslovakia, and most notably John Vorster and P. W. Botha of South Africa, denouncing apartheid as a "particularly gruesome system." His 1972 condemnation of American bombings in Hanoi, comparing the bombings to a number of historical crimes including the bombing of Guernica, the massacres of Oradour-sur-glane, Babi Yar, Katyn, Lidice and Sharpeville and the extermination of Jews and other groups at Treblinka, resulted in a temporary freeze in Sweden–United States relations.
Palme's assassination on a Stockholm street on 28 February 1986 was the first murder of a national leader in Sweden since Gustav III in 1792, and had a great impact across Scandinavia.[2] Local convict and addict Christer Pettersson was originally convicted of the murder in district court but was unanimously acquitted by the Svea Court of Appeal. On 10 June 2020, Swedish prosecutors held a press conference to announce that there was "reasonable evidence" that Stig Engström had killed Palme.[3] As Engström committed suicide in 2000, the authorities announced that the investigation into Palme's death was to be closed.[3] The 2020 conclusion has faced widespread criticism from lawyers, police officers and journalists, decrying the evidence as only circumstantial, and too weak to ensure a trial had the suspect been alive.
To be fair, the second guy wasnt even officially a suspect until after his death, and mostly became a suspect because he was doing bizarre fame seeking shit about being "the first man on the scene" after the murder, when most witnesses weren't sure he even was there, and people looked at that in retrospect and went "Yo who's this weird asshole?".
But the police have essentially no evidence against him, they have no reasonable idea of where he got a magnum from aside from a vague suggestion of "Well maybe he borrowed it from a gun collector friend?", if it was a planned assassination then his movements only make sense if he was working with spotters and other people, but the police say he did it alone, which implies he on a pure whim decided to keep a magnum revolver at his advertising workplace, randomly took it with him when leaving work, just happened to accidentally run into Olof Palme and his wife, and shot him on again, a whim.
FWIW at least one of the former investigators on the case believes that a police conspiracy is plausible and should be investigated, there had been a scandal at the time of a group of nazi sympathising cops going around Stockholm wearing civilian clothing and brutalizing people, mostly drug addicts.
They also initially went 100% in on their suspicion that PKK had assassinated Palme, which lead to them being scammed by some guy through the Danish police, who demanded 10,000 dollars and then told them that the murderer was hiding in the Syrian embassy in Stockholm, which he was then informed that there was no Syrian embassy in Stockholm, and he just went "Oh guess they lied to me then" and then just named some random government minister and ambassador as the next targets of the PKK.