It is really an old truism, when your sparring partners are 7-year old kids from the sand-box you are bound to lose qualifications and skills. When it is aggravated by the blind and illiterate geopolitical planning and doctrine-mongering–it becomes a recipe for the loss of situational awareness and a disaster. The United States may not have produced world-class strategists with the exception of Mahan, but operationally, come on–everyone uses Boyd’s OODA Loop, Net- Centric Warfare is a routine today in Russian Armed Forces, so why such a catastrophic failure to learn from themselves, forget about learning it from those who defeated time after time best fighting forces in history?
The answer is clear as a day: Wehrmacht couldn’t conceive that Slavic subhumans can produce T-34 and excellent fighter-planes, not to speak of a superb artillery. They also miscalculated with the level of education and adaptability of the Red Army, and in terms of Soviet industry. The US repeats here Nazi Germany’s path–US “elites” are afflicted by the genocidal, racial hatred towards Russians and they cannot conceive, especially through the “labor” of Soviet and Russian dissidents who sold BS about USSR and Russia for decades, that the US simply doesn’t know or understand Russia. That what it “knows” about her and her people is a complete bunk conceived in the dark recesses of ideological imperatives of the Cold War 1.0. “
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Ukraine War: List Of Useful Sites
There is a huge dearth of decent commentary on the war, or, when there is good commentary, it is scattered between blog posts and video, making it hard for busy people to get the gist of what is happening without an enormous expenditure of time.
For the self absorbed among us, for whom a war is just another excuse to update Facebook this hardly matters, but the rest of us need to know what we are supporting before we open our mouths…or the blood is on our hands too.
Sanctioning Russia implies the collective guilt of its citizens for not overturning Putin.
Well, what about the collective guilt of Americans in allowing into the White House a man in serious mental decline, incapable of handling international crises?
Shouldn’t ordinary Americans be punished for that too?
Or for Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, and endless other interventions which had less justification than Putin’s?
But who will sanction the sanctioners?
With that, here is a list of sites that could help understanding the war in Ukraine.
NOTE: I DO NOT ENDORSE ANY OF THEM.
I have serious problems with about 3/4 of what is on them, and likely most, if not all, have some intelligence ties, or toe the intelligence line, or they would not flourish. You can take that as you wish. I know nothing about the owners, funders etc., although in some cases I can take a good guess.
But from bitter experience I will keep those guesses mostly to myself.
I am not part of any organized resistance, communist, anti-communist, Russian, Prussian, or anything else. The only resistance I am whole-heartedly part of is resistance to my own unwanted habits, weaknesses and failings. The only line I toe is, whether something is true and helpful or not. There are true things that are not useful.. such as the personal crimes or sins of some of our oligarch enemies and friends. Interesting, but not necessarily relevant.
However, where relevant and useful, there is also another consideration. If I put this information up, will the blowback be worth it, for someone who has only her wits and a couple of hours of free time, to aid her?
Will I go under too, like a thousand other small blogs and sites in the great purge that began in 2015-2016 and has accelerated ever since?
So I hold my tongue, which is now black and blue from the effort.
WEBSITES/BLOGS
Michel Chossudovsky’s website, Center for Research on Globalization [Long-standing researchers on geopolitics from a parapolitics angle. Criticizes as pushing Chinese and Russian propaganda.]
GreatGameIndia: Shelly Kasli’s wonderful investigative site that hasn’t been given sufficient credit for the ground breaking work it did on Covid, and before that, on demonetization and the cash ban. Possibly vetted by Indian intelligence, but not certain.
Zero Hedge: Lots of good stories mixed in with some disinfo, as I am almost certain this site is a group effort.
Strategic-Culture Foundation [reportedly part of the pro-Russian ecosystem, allegedly linked to the Russian state, just as all other media is linked to the ecosystem of the US, UK, EU, and their allies]
Oriental Review Ditto
Covert Shores: Good analysis of Moskva sinking, open source intel from a naval guy. Western viewpoint.
War Zone The Drive
Very good analysis of war and armaments. Western
Intel Slava Z on Telegram
Unz.com [Counterpunch writers and some others who’ve migrated to a site run by Ron Unz, a tech entrepreneur and smart Jewish dissident; likely to be some disinformation, intended to co-opt so-called anti-Semitic criticism]
Voltairenet [Theirry Meyssan is excellent]
Dissident Voice [left centered dissident opinion on a variety of topics]
Counter-currents [ed. Binu Matthews] Socialist, people oriented, pro-global warming.
Indian Punch-line [M. Bhadrakumar, a retired Indian diplomat]
Life-site News [pro-life Catholic site]
The Saker.is – Orthodox Russian resident in the US, economically left, culturally right. Very pro Russian.
A Son of the American Revolution [American military analyst]
Andrei Martyanov’s blog [Russian military analyst. Very pro Russian]
The Gateway Pundit [pro-Trump right, conspiratorial]
National File [investigative, non mainstream right]
The Last Refuge [pro Trump Christian right]
Lew Rockwell [Libertarian pro-market, antiwar site] Paleolibertarian and Christian libertarian
Revisionist Review, from Michael Hoffman, a so-called holocaust denial site, but I can vouch that it is entirely free of Nazi sympathy of any kind. Deep analysis of staged events, masonic conspiracy, and Talmudic influence.
and TASS
[Russian state outlets]
Srb.info [Serbia news] Pro Russian Serbian news site.
Gonzalo Lira [Chilean businessman on site in Kharkiv, has now gone missing]: First-hand account of events in Kharkhiv, ear-to-the-ground reports of other areas.
Patrick Lancaster: Ex-US Navy, on the ground at battle fronts, with Russian army.
The Duran
[Have not watched this much, will add, when I find time to.]
That’s all for now. I don’t necessarily agree with the positions of these sites on other issues, or even with everything they say about the war, but they carry useful information to counter the incessant propaganda about Ukraine and Russia.
The best weapon against the media war is
Accurate information about the background and progress of the war
Clear understanding of the motivations and justifications of the different actors
Healthy skepticism toward the moral grandstanding of third parties with no skin in the game.