Here is a list of interesting links (articles, videos etc.) with relevance to the current (as of March 2022) conflict in Ukraine:
George Friedman on 'Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe' (video, ~1hr10), with some interesting analysis of the geopolitical situation in Ukraine, during the last ~10 mins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-8KV_GurLY
Robert H. Wade of (but not on behalf of) the LSE explains 'Why the US and Nato have long wanted Russia to attack Ukraine':
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2022/03/30/why-the-us-and-nato-have-long-wanted-russia-to-attack-ukraine/
BBC on Ukraine, and the narrative the West doesn't hear:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61272203
BBC's Ros Atkins on neo-Nazis in Ukraine (video, ~9 mins):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-60853404
Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Mark Hertling on a comparison of Russian and Ukrainian armies:
https://www.thebulwark.com/i-commanded-u-s-army-europe-heres-what-i-saw-in-the-russian-and-ukrainian-armies/
Emeritus Prof. Stephen F. Cohen on 'The Ukrainian Crisis - It's not All Putin's Fault (Recorded in 2015)' (video ~1hr10):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pUj3Vqptx8
Jacques Baud article in SOTT on the miltary situation in Ukraine:
https://www.sott.net/article/466340-Retired-Swiss-Military-Intelligence-Officer-Is-it-Possible-to-Actually-Know-What-Has-Been-And-is-Going-on-in-Ukraine
Phillips Payson O’Brien in The Atlantic on 'How the West Got Russia’s Military So, So Wrong':
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/russia-ukraine-invasion-military-predictions/629418/
...and something in the same vein by Anthony Beevor:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-doesnt-realize-how-much-warfare-has-changed/627600/
Alexander Dugin interview on BBC Newsnight on how Russia has its 'special truth' (video, ~10 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGunRKWtWBs
...and Canadian PhD Student Michael Millerman explains in an interview Dugin and Russia's viewpoint (video, ~18 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGunRKWtWBs
Retired Finnish Military Intelligence Officer Martti Kari gives a lecture (subtitled video, ~1hr) on Russian thinking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9KretXqJw&t=1s
...and another interview with him here (video, ~38 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21vXembyXY8
Russell Brand points out some hypocracies from the west regarding responses to the Russian invasion (video ~14mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnevpbkFrPE
The Grayzone reports on links between Zelensky and Ukrainian 'neo-Nazis':
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/
Vitaliy Katsenelson asks 'Are there neo-Nazis in Ukraine?':
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/vitaliy/issues/war-in-ukraine-part-4-are-there-neo-nazis-in-ukraine-1076042
Kerry Brown of King's College London asks whether Russia will be happy as China's junior partner:
https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/will-russia-be-happy-as-chinas-junior-partner/
Larry Johnson on sonar21 thinks that the Ukrainian army has been defeated:
https://sonar21.com/the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up/
...and later asks 'Is Russia on the ropes?' (he thinks not):
https://sonar21.com/is-russia-on-the-ropes-in-ukraine/
Oliver Stone-produced movie (~1.5 hours) 'Ukraine on Fire' giving history of Ukraine, including the Maydan 'Orange revolution':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKcmNGvaDUs
BBC News article on Russia's military 'mistakes':
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60798352
Tucker Carlson on Fox News discusses US-funded biolabs in Ukraine (video, ~10 mins):
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1502109870908186630
Vladimir Putin's war demands, as relayed by Turkish Officials:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60785754
Article from The Blogmire on the background to the Ukraine conflict:
https://www.theblogmire.com/when-fanatical-ideology-bumps-up-against-stone-cold-reality/
Col. Doug Macgregor on The Grayzone offers an alternative narrative on the aims of the Russian army in Ukraine, and how they are faring (video, ~8 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iw0m-Pc08Q&t=2s
...and discussion (with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate) in full here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFngc_8RiVc
Konstantin Kisin (Russian/British comedian):
Konstantin Kisin (Russian-British podcaster and comedian) on the war in Ukraine on SpectatorTV (video, ~36 minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZcEDwdZEpE
...and his appearance (aired 3 March 2022) on BBC Question Time (video ~14 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXwlqoSF70
...and his Triggernometry episode devoted to the topic (video, ~102 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjGCho0zAb4
...and his article about what you're not being told about Russia:
https://konstantinkisin.substack.com/p/what-youre-not-being-told-about-russia?s=r
...and he says stop calling Putin Hitler:
https://konstantinkisin.substack.com/p/stop-calling-putin-hitler?s=r
...and Konstantin Kisin article on why Russians support Putin:
https://konstantinkisin.substack.com/p/why-russians-support-putin?s=r
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly (pre-invasion) explains why Canada has been training Ukraine's military (i.e. professionalising them up to NATO standards) since 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cpBobdeYzU
...and long article in The Canadian Encyclopedia giving history and background of strong cultural ties between Canada and Ukraine:
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ukrainian-canadians
...and article about two former Canadian armed forces military trainers (incidentally both female Lt. Cols.) in Ukraine, and their mixed emotions about the war:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadian-military-trainers-deal-with-mixed-emotions-as-ukrainians-defend-from-russia-1.5811015
Financial Times on beefing-up UKR cybersecurity on the eve of the invasion:
https://www.ft.com/content/1fb2f592-4806-42fd-a6d5-735578651471
Francis Fukuyama makes various predictions, including that Russia's military operation might collapse to outright defeat quite suddenly:
https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/preparing-for-defeat/
Dr. Jack Watling of RUSI on Russian military failings (so far), and what lessons NATO should or shouldn't take:
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/rusi-defence-systems/just-how-tall-are-russian-soldiers
Prof. John Mearsheimer:
JM lecture which explains why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's fault:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
And Mearsheimer's view in an (edited) nutshell on what Ukraine should and shouldn't do, and why (video, ~8 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkC9mZgaLDI
And interview with JM by Isaac Chotiner in the New Yorker Magazine:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine
And Prof. Mearsheimer talk to Kings College Cambridge students just before Russian invasion launched, which summarises the Ukraine issue (~1hr:21 of which ~1hr Q&A):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj1AR_aAcE
And Mearsheimer article on Ukraine crisis in the New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine
And online debate with Ray McGovern, Jack Matlock, Susan Eisenhower and others (video, ~1hr40):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppD_bhWODDc&t=237s
And presentation and Q&A at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (video, >2 hrs):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJYtYssRCHc
And now it seems that even The Economist is publishing John Mearsheimer's views (behind paywall):
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/11/john-mearsheimer-on-why-the-west-is-principally-responsible-for-the-ukrainian-crisis
And a John Mearsheimer interview on Crux on 2022-04-14:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgiZXgYzI84
And a video of a JM lecture to the Robert Schuman centre (~1 hr) plus Q&A (also ~1hr) from June 2022 explaining the causes of the war, and (gloomy) outlook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVozNtCDM
Jon Schwarz in The Intercept on Realists, Neocons, and how sincere internal criticism within a country can be smeared in bad faith by its opponents:
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/06/russia-john-mearsheimer-propaganda/
Hal Brands opinion piece in Bloomberg argues that NATO expansion should not be blamed for Putin's aggression:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-13/russia-invades-ukraine-putin-s-biggest-lie-is-blaming-nato-for-war
Interesting (to radio engineers, at least) RUSI article on Russian (radio) Comms in Ukraine: 'A World of Hertz':
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russian-comms-ukraine-world-hertz
...and more radio-related stories from the front, from RTL-SDR.com here:
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/radio-related-news-occurring-in-the-russia-ukraine-conflict/
...and Ukrainian Armed Forces ~52-minute 2016 video describing their use of Motorola VHF/UHF digital/encrypted radios (DMR, I believe) in the combat zone (something of a Motorola advert, but with interesting discussion of radiocomms techniques 'in the field'):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1WCTfDjsQ
CNN commissioned poll in Russia and Ukraine (just before the invasion) comparing and contrasting views in the two countries (and in the various different regions within Ukraine) on various issues to do with Ukrainian independence from Russia, NATO expansion etc., including views from commentators such as Vladimir Pozner:
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/02/europe/russia-ukraine-crisis-poll-intl/
Vox article, written just on the eve of the invasion, laying out Vladimir Putin's views on Ukraine, as taken from his speeches etc.:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/2/23/22945781/russia-ukraine-putin-speech-transcript-february-22
...and Vladimir Putin explains to Oliver Stone his NATO concerns (video, ~2 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzeZ6nzECs
Twitter thread from Prof. Paul Poast on how Boris Yeltsin warned against NATO expansion, but the Baltic states nevertheless wangled their early entry into NATO through some clever manouevering:
https://twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast/status/1484883759090606087
Twitter thread from Clint Ehrlich suggesting that the strong western sanctions may actually strengthen Putin's grip:
https://twitter.com/ClintEhrlich/status/1500996394659696640
Newsweek on Rtd. US Col. Doug MacGregor, and his views on what Putin wants and what Zelensky should do (includes a video):
https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-blasts-putin-wing-gop-macgregor-zelensky-remarks-1685269
also here's a video interview with the good Colonel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHxZyPdo3L0
MSNBC comprehensive opinion piece by Zeeshan Aleem that the Ukraine war might have been preventable (i.e. by halting NATO expansion):
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/russia-s-ukraine-invasion-may-have-been-preventable-n1290831
Peter Hitchens in the Daily Mail blames the west for the current crisis:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10540829/PETER-HITCHENS-blame-arrogant-foolish-West-Ukraine-crisis.html
...and on his visit to Crimea/ Sevastopol around 2010, and how it was evident already then what might be coming:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10581335/PETER-HITCHENS-saw-coming-Thats-wont-join-carnival-hypocrisy.html
...and Peter Hitchens in a video (~20 mins) debate (with Dr. Mike Martin and Freddy Gray) on Spectator TV discussing many of the same points:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-y_g1CSkdc
Twitter thread by Arnaud Bertrand, listing eminent people (e.g. George Kennan, Henry Kissinger etc.) who warned against NATO expansion:
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1498491107902062592
...and RT Opinion Piece by Bradley Blankenship also listing the same sorts of names, and suggesting where things may lead:
https://www.rt.com/news/551225-nato-expansion-lead-conflict/
Patrick Armstrong on Russia and Ukraine (other relevant stuff there too):
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2022/02/25/russia-ukraine-1/
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2022/03/04/russia-ukraine-2/
Ideas for Psyops against Russian conscripts (although doesn't Putin say no conscripts are involved in his 'special operation'?):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2022/03/01/shaken-russian-army-conscripts-make-perfect-targets-for-morale-crushing-operations/
Newsweek article on Russian military weakness:
https://www.newsweek.com/shocking-lessons-us-military-leaders-learned-watching-putins-invasion-1683625
Craig Murray on NATO, Russia, and the military industrial complex:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/03/the-universal-boosting-of-putin/
...and striving to make sense of the war in Ukraine:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/04/each-of-us-is-striving-to-process-the-truth-of-the-disaster-in-ukraine/
...and what a peace agreement might look like:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/05/what-might-a-ukraine-peace-agreement-look-like/
Why Russia is invading Ukraine by RealLifeLore, including discussion of military strategy, geography etc. (Video, ~32 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE&t=2s
What Russia Wants From Its Invasion of Ukraine by 'Coach Red Pill' (Video ~18 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdiEABLFoo&t=588s
Vladimir Pozner (Franco-Russian-US Journalist):
VP on 'How the United States Created Vladimir Putin' (~2hrs inc. Q&A):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ
And Vladimir Pozner CCI discussion session (Parts 1 and 2):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaUAqOlEIaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3XAGGI0V18
And Pozner at Cambridge University Russian Society (~1 hr):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-hdNpbj0ew
And Pozner on ABC news, summarising the roots of the Ukraine crisis (~5 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskDy1b65hE
Vladimir Putin talks about security, borders, Nato expansion etc. in response to British journalist, Sky News (~8 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkl2XgZlw0
and Putin response to question in 2020 from BBC journalist Steve Rosenberg on related questions (~9 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DeYLhGODJc
Democracy Now interviews Jack Matlock, ex-U.S. Ambassador to USSR: 'Ukraine Crisis Stems Directly from Post-Cold War Push to Expand NATO' (video, ~24 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5F0JSy-HHY
...and a comprehensive article by Jack Matlock about how we got to this point (written just before the war started):
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/02/15/the-origins-of-the-ukraine-crisis-and-how-conflict-can-be-avoided/
...and another video of Jack Matlock here (video, ~8 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg3WKP2iirs
2008 NATO Bucharest Summit announcement re. the question of accession of Georgia and Ukraine to NATO:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm
Hermann Goering quote on how people can always be brought around to support a war:
https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2018/02/how-people-can-be-brought-around-support-war-incite-fear-attack/