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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]M21•2 years ago

    US working on new Russian oil plan RT

    Jesus christ, what else can they do? They've already agreed to embargo all oil shipments.

    The United States is involved in “extremely active” discussions with European countries aimed at limiting the revenues Russia can generate from selling oil, without interrupting supplies, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday.

    Yellen reportedly told the Senate Finance Committee that US officials were keen to keep Russian oil flowing into the global market to contain prices and avoid a spike that could cause a worldwide recession.

    “But absolutely the objective is to limit the revenue going to Russia,” she allegedly said, adding there were different ways to accomplish that. The Treasury Secretary specified such measures could include a possible move by buyers to band together and cap the prices they were paying to Moscow.

    ???

    • SoyViking [he/him]24•2 years ago

      This is utterly deranged. They want to organise every oil buying country to disregard their own economic interest and to subject themselves to termination of oil supplies when they don't pay the market price.

      And for what reason? Sucking up to Washington? Sticking it to Putin? Who do they imagine to get on board of this?

    • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]23•2 years ago

      We want to keep the Russian oil but also not pay them. If the Russians stop giving us oil then oil prices might go up and that’s unacceptable.

      Capitalists are becoming incoherent. Didn’t they use to understand the simple concept of exchange? They want their cake and to eat it too, you don’t get the profits and the goods. You exchange one for the other.

      How are they getting this deranged?

      • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]22•2 years ago

        The answer is simple

        They are old

        The youth don't really get it. But I've worked in retirement homes. And old people are insane and incoherent and that is who is running the west

        It's that simple.

      • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]10•2 years ago

        Capitalism is flawed by nature and continuing it is illogical. That Capitalists are irrational and delusional should come as no surprize.

      • SoyViking [he/him]10•2 years ago

        They want oil but they don't want to pay for it? Good luck with that.

    • MelaniaTrump [undecided]23•2 years ago

      limiting the revenues Russia can generate from selling oil, without interrupting supplies

      what the fuck is this limp shit. either you're buying Russian oil or you aren't. don't come up with convoluted lib schemes to make you feel better about it

      The US just needs to admit they're dependent on Russian oil supplies and move the fuck on

      • CheGueBeara [he/him]16•2 years ago

        They're trying to build a coalition of oil producers that will sell selectively to US client states, thereby making the sanctions on Russian oil theoretically actually doable rather than the theater they are now.

        I think they'll fail and help out Venezuela in the process, lol.