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.
My understanding is that they've always maintained the right to a nuclear strike if their territorial integrity is breached or their cities come under attack.
are the Americans really thinking they can "Lawyer" /Debatebro themselfs out of that once Ukraine Uses their Weapons to Strrike Russian Civilians .. Insane ...
American politicians: "Well, technically, a city has a strict definition, and this particular settlement doesn't fit that definition, and so if we strike it with missiles, then the Russians won't technically do us any harm according to their warnings!"
America: strikes
Russia: vaporizes a NATO base in Poland
America: "INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTERNATIONAL RULES BASED OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORDDDDDDDDERR!"
Did you not forget someone in making this judgment call ?