If you have any useful resource links please tag me in a comment with the link:

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to this if you can, thank you.

Links

Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ukraine/@49.1162725,31.7993839,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40d1d9c154700e8f:0x1068488f64010!8m2!3d48.379433!4d31.1655799?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1B1PLMhbHmG1aJ2-QNxHY1TksI6HlNhqF&ll=48.60777942568106%2C36.4496511633501&z=7

Leftist discussion threads:

https://hexbear.net/post/177324

https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/

https://lemmygrad.ml/

Twitter military updaters:

https://nitter.42l.fr/RWApodcast

https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary :kitty-cri:

https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet

https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike

https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael

https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518

https://www.youtube.com/c/DefensePoliticsAsia/videos

obvious disclaimers about taking all of them with tonnes of salt etc

Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413

Better war/propaganda analysis:

https://www.understandingwar.org

https://www.moonofalabama.org/

News updates:

https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html

Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html

YT/Video in Ukraine:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBentleyTe

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  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    r/volunteersforukraine on Reddit :reddit-logo: is actually some of the worst/best stuff I've seen. Posts are full of photos and videos of the aftermath of the Russian airstrikes, and the comments are some of the most deranged things I've ever read. Will copy some of the best/worst ones here

    I'll admit I was a little naive myself even having seen some combat previously. I did not expect to be attacked by jets while sleeping in a barracks room on a training base 10 miles from Poland.

    My guy thought that fighting a modern army with the second largest airforce in the world would be the same as fighting farmers in Afghanistan.

    The Ukrainian border guards were asking if we had extra gear for them, unreal how close they're taking it

    The sign of a winning side, asking foreigners entering your country for guns and military equipment!

    Some good comments though.

    wtf did you expect?
    That you'll be shooting at some undefended Russian Z-trucks trundling along a road with their crews abandoning their vehicles and running back to Russia as soon as they hear shots nearby?

    It’s beyond astonishing that these people, grown adults, got themselves psy-op’d into flying halfway around the world to volunteer as cannon fodder for an Eastern European kleptocracy against the fucking Russian Army.

    And are somehow surprised when they get blown up by a Russian missile.

    Like holy shit, get off the internet and re-evaluate your life.

    Link to the thread

    • Ecoleo [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      jeez that person fucking demolished the whole subreddit lmao

    • lascaux [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      simply lol. "I went there not planning on taking much risk" hahahaha dumb fuck of the day award goes to this guy who went to an active warzone joining the fight against the second or third strongest military on the planet and didn't "plan on taking much risk"

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        He really thought that it would be like the previous wars in the middle east.

        Apparently the guy is helping refugees now, so that's good hopefully.

        • lascaux [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          if he is a medic like he says that should have been his plan from the start instead of trying to be a glory hound and nearly getting killed immediately. better late than never i guess

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago
      wtf did you expect?
That you’ll be shooting at some undefended Russian Z-trucks trundling along a road with their crews abandoning their vehicles and running back to Russia as soon as they hear shots nearby?

It’s beyond astonishing that these people, grown adults, got themselves psy-op’d into flying halfway around the world to volunteer as cannon fodder for an Eastern European kleptocracy against the fucking Russian Army.

And are somehow surprised when they get blown up by a Russian missile.

Like holy shit, get off the internet and re-evaluate your life.

      Wish I could gild them for this banger.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        https://www.reddit.com/r/volunteersForUkraine/comments/tdnmlj/-/i0lpiuk

        https://www.reddit.com/r/volunteersForUkraine/comments/tdnmlj/-/i0kwym3

        I think one of them already got silver

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        This guy really thought he was just going to arrive and do tacticool spec ops shit immediately, just like in call of duty lmao. So delusional. Probably can't even read basic Cyrillic.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
            ·
            3 years ago

            Apparently they're giving them an AK, one magazine and telling them to get more ammunition off of dead Russians. But Ukraine is totally winning everyone!

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I'll never get over how absolutely moronic these people are.

      So many comments noting that "it's not like anything we experienced" like no, really? The West's lived military experience the last 45 years is calling in airstrikes on disorganized poor people armed with ancient AKMs and RPGs who have 0 armor and air support, and they thought it would be similar to that when fighting like the 3rd most expensive military in the world.

      Dumb fucks didn't realize they ARE the "disorganized poor people" in this scenario.

      And they're doing this nigh-suicidal idiocy to support a kleptocracy full of skinheads, run by a guy named in several "Papers" leaks as having something like 40 mill illicitly