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.
Isn't it crazy that all the hysteria of the trump years evaporated when Biden won. Not all the things that hysteria was worried about is happening under Biden.
The escalation with Russia thing was something that Republicans were worried with happening under Hillary, which is why when Trump won they went Russia-gate.
Stopped clocks and everything, but it looks like they were correct in that assessment, though by the look of it, this invasion (escalation, whatever) would have happened under Trump and idk if Trump would have had the wherewithall to prevent a similar style of escalation.
Hillary literally wanted a no-fly zone in Syria.
I feel like everyone forgets what an absolutely insane ghoul she was when discussing her.
Like, it's funny to say she sucked shit and lost to a clown that she secretly backed as her opponent, but holy fuck. That woman would drag us screaming into a nuclear war with a grin on her face.
I remember hearing that she was laughing when she say the video of Gaddafi being raped to death with a bayonet.
Not sure about that one but "We came, we saw, he died" followed by laughter will always send a chill down my spine.
Genuine glee at the destabilisation of a nation.
The fact Trump was "unqualified" made him one of the biggest disruptions to US imperialism in recent history, and the deep state still managed to convince him to do tonnes of awful shit.
I won't wish a similar death on her or her family as much as I do hate them but if a bunch of rabid chuds did something like that I wouldn't care
I wouldn't laugh or celebrate but I also wouldn't feel anything for her
I think Trump would have bluffed a big game and did some brinksmanship tweets, and secretly arrange a compromise with Putin where NATO backs off Ukraine and gets them to be neutral. Minsk 2 would still hold for a while but it’s tenuous, Zelenskyy doesn’t control the Nazis who keep breaking the ceasefire.