This comment is for soliciting good sources. In general, if you feel like something is a good source I want it, but concrete examples of the kind of things I mean:
Informed diplomatic commentary from the point of view of any of the important players: US, EU, Russia, Ukraine, China
Defense commentary from the same suite
Economic/market commentary (I am a little baffled about how a market is supposed to successfully predict a war, since a war is always strongly net-negative; intuitively the only option is moving money out or strong hedging activity).
I don’t have any great recommendations, and I don’t have any primary sources. But a few of the sources I have found myself coming back to are:
SpeakTheTruth—Two US vets with a youtube channel. The are not trying to be neutral in the conflict, but I’ve found their commentary on the strategic and tactical situation more informed and in-depth than most other sources. One of them speaks some Russian, and have previously visited Ukraine. I don’t know or care about any of their other content or opinions.
James Acton—Has seemed like a generally sane commentator to me, but I don’t know of him from before this conflict.
RT—Russia Today—Russian state sponsored news agency. Terrible as anyone’s only source of news, but very interesting point of comparison. Some articles are clearly much more heavily biased than others. Overall the level of censorship is lower than I was expecting. Sputnik is another example.
I appreciate the inclusion of information Russian people are seeing. I haven’t encountered anything reasonable about how the Russian public feels about the invasion, other than selected highlights of protests or captured soldiers being confused, which clearly cannot be relied on to paint the full picture.
This comment is for soliciting good sources. In general, if you feel like something is a good source I want it, but concrete examples of the kind of things I mean:
Informed diplomatic commentary from the point of view of any of the important players: US, EU, Russia, Ukraine, China
Defense commentary from the same suite
Economic/market commentary (I am a little baffled about how a market is supposed to successfully predict a war, since a war is always strongly net-negative; intuitively the only option is moving money out or strong hedging activity).
This is the analysis I like the best so far.
Published 29th of January, 3 weeks before the invasion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJNtfyq3TDE
And followup, published 5th of March:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4hvLqNfqo
I don’t have any great recommendations, and I don’t have any primary sources. But a few of the sources I have found myself coming back to are:
SpeakTheTruth—Two US vets with a youtube channel. The are not trying to be neutral in the conflict, but I’ve found their commentary on the strategic and tactical situation more informed and in-depth than most other sources. One of them speaks some Russian, and have previously visited Ukraine. I don’t know or care about any of their other content or opinions.
James Acton—Has seemed like a generally sane commentator to me, but I don’t know of him from before this conflict.
RT—Russia Today—Russian state sponsored news agency. Terrible as anyone’s only source of news, but very interesting point of comparison. Some articles are clearly much more heavily biased than others. Overall the level of censorship is lower than I was expecting. Sputnik is another example.
I appreciate the inclusion of information Russian people are seeing. I haven’t encountered anything reasonable about how the Russian public feels about the invasion, other than selected highlights of protests or captured soldiers being confused, which clearly cannot be relied on to paint the full picture.