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.
Can you explain? I used to watch that channel when I was learning about guns
The host has started a publishing house and has been crowdfunding books for a while, before this year they were all very dry reference type books about stuff like the development of French service rifles, British "bullpup" rifles, currently in the works is a book about the handmade pistols made in China during the warlord era.
But this February he announced that he was intending to crowdfund the publishing of a kind of "war diary" from a former Azov fighter who travelled to Ukraine from Sweden in 2014 to fight when the civil war first broke out, and in the announcement video he featured footage with Azovs usual array of nazi imagery while simultaneously stating that "Azov has been misrepresented by the media".
Though a decent chunk of fans attempted to defend the move the backlash was very quick and hard against this whole thing and he attempted to damage control by insisting that the diary itself had no nazi content. But once people found the Azov nazis twitter and linked him calling for genocide, bragging about his continued activities inside Sweden etc the whole thing was cancelled in a pretty embarrassing way.
On top of that it probably permanently fucked up a planned book about the Kalashnikov rifles cause the author of that was Russian and IIRC probably former military or some other state position where he could have gotten access to development information.