No update today, will be able to continue tomorrow.
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.
Would just like to point out that America has over 200 military bases in the Pacific, including 120 (and over 50,000 troops) in Japan, 73 (and over 20,000 troops) in South Korea, 7 (and over 1000 troops) in Australia, as well as a base on Samoa, the Marshall Islands, Guam, and a few throughout Indonesia and the Phillippines.
The United States is pissing and crying and shitting its pants about China potentially making trade deals that could hypothetically, one day lead to singular military bases on some of the smaller islands in the Pacific.
The Hegemon can't play nice with others and doesn't want to share its subject populations.
That’s a whataboutism sweaty. Do you support Chinese imperialism?