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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]M26•2 years ago

    Zelensky aide berates Germany RT

    Berlin’s support for Kiev has been lacking, even as Germany plans to invest 100 billion euros in its own military, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. He claimed that he couldn’t even tell if the 5,000 helmets promised by Berlin in January had actually arrived or not.

    “We are struggling to understand what [we received from Germany],” Alexey Arestovich said during an interview with a YouTube-based blogger. “For now, I still want to see those 5,000 helmets”.

    ...

    The issue of German arms came up during the interview as Arestovich was detailing the latest pledges of weapons from Western nations. He complained that Ukraine didn’t receive enough support from Germany, even as the country decided to invest 100 billion euro in its own military.

    “Could it be that the Germans are reviving the glory of the German arms? Could it be that the Bundeswehr will once again ride across uncut fields?” the Ukrainian official said in a mocking tone. The investment sum was “crazy” and amounted to roughly two annual military budgets of Russia, he pointed out.

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s promise to make the German army the largest conventional force in Europe was too good to be true, Arstovich assessed. The news deserves far wider coverage in the media than there is, so it must not be what is really happening, he said.

    “He promised us a lot and gave nothing,” he said of Scholtz rhetorically. German people don’t trust their leader either, he claimed, suggesting that the Germans should “sort out” their politicians.