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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.

Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.

https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.

https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.

https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:

https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.

https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

Yesterday's discussion post.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M25•2 years ago

    According to Putin:

    Industrial production increased by 3.9% in the first four months of 2022. .

    The situation with inflation has been brought under control, it is at zero.

    Unemployment is falling: in April it was 4% — the lowest value for all time.

    The volume of retail trade in May increased by 5.4% compared to last year.

    Price growth in Russia stopped in the second half of May.

    Since June 1, pensions and the minimum wage, as well as the subsistence minimum, have increased by 10%.

    A new Russian federal budget is being developed for the next 3 years.

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]31•2 years ago

      Western capital leaving Russia seems to be one of the greatest things that ever happened for the Russian economy, who could have guessed

      • ClathrateG [none/use name]21•2 years ago

        Victoria Nuland and the Gang that couldn't Sanction Straight didn't lol, I hope this is end of dollar hegemony

      • SoyViking [he/him]7•2 years ago

        "We're very angry at your government and we want to destroy your economy. Therefore we're giving you all of these factories and shops and distribution networks at firesale prices!"

        :galaxy-brain:

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M7•2 years ago

          I'm unsure as to how much western businesses withdrawing was about wanting to cause economic strife in Russia, vs taking some kind of principled stand against the invasion, but if it is the former - it's really emblematic of the west-brain that they think that the brands leaving - not the factories, not the restaurants, not the retail buildings, not the material structure, but the brands themselves, the names that are on the buildings, would like, make Russia economically collapse. Like, you see this with the whole McDonalds thing, where they're just renaming it and opening it back up. Like, it's not as if when some car manufacturer officially leaves Russia, that the factory is physically towed back into Europe.

    • geikei [none/use name]16•2 years ago

      Unemployment is falling: in April it was 4% — the lowest value for all time.

      Well not "all time" :stalin-approval:

    • Prinz1989 [he/him]7•2 years ago

      I read that sales tax income is down by about 50% which is strange given inflated prices would also inflate the sales tax. It seems like a massive drop in consumer spending if it is true. Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220602-russia-braces-for-economic-upheaval-as-sanctions-start-to-bite

      • SoyViking [he/him]5•2 years ago

        It seems reasonable that Russian consumers would be careful making big purchases, with their national economy being under attack.