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Links and Stuff
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.
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r/sino is a good source on this despite not being entirely socialist.
Diplomats from Muslim countries have been visiting Xinjiang this week. Many of them have been tweeting photos from their visits. Oh, guess who refuses to visit Xinjiang? USA and EU
Countries that wage war on muslims oppose China's Xinjiang policy while Muslim countries overwhelmingly supports it
here countries stand on China's Uyghur "genocide": Muslim countries in green, countries that bomb Muslims in red.
37 countries that signed the letter supporting Chinese policy in Xinjiang. 18 of these are majority
There was always a majority support for China from the Muslim world. Now whether you call that geopolitics, self-interest or not the matter of fact is that if Muslims are not to be trusted on this issue than surely Westerners should be the last ones to have a say on it as well and basicaly imo there is no argument to be made other than purely pragmatic points. Chinese policies worked without resorting to violence or war and that is what matters.
Also it is very important to note that the Xinjiang extremests were also linked to ISIS and some of them were fighting in Syria. You can search on google(use before:2018-01-01 for example) and on r/sino for ISIS and Uighur.
Here is western media reporting notice "Chinese figthers" instead of terrorists.
WSJ : Over 100 Chinese Fighters Have Joined Islamic State in Syria
Financial times: Isis Uighurs threaten ‘rivers of blood’ in China
AP Exclusive: Uighurs fighting in Syria take aim at China
Random research paper from 2017: Uighur Foreign Fighters: An Underexamined Jihadist Challenge
Also there is that infamous YT video of the US army guy basically telling the entire US plan to use Xinjiang against China.
Thank you for this compilation of links! Absolutely brilliant .
These are Solid Gold Nunchaku in the fight against "China has concentration camps"
Guy who doesn't know the difference between japan & china; 'wow 'nunchaku', racist much?'
Over sensitive SJW much? I wasn't suggesting Chinese people invented nunchucks or even that they would be using them. I was implying I was going to use them to metaphorically bash libs with facts that contradict their propagandized world view. This sort of attitude is counter productive as it makes you look pedantic and nit-picky.
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