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

Please add to this if you can.

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

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.net/ASBMilitary

https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet

https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike

https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael

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

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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  • throw42069at [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Putin's family was decimated by the Holocaust. This applies to most Russians as well. To think that Russians would even consider bombing a Holocaust memorial is absolute insanity.

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I don't know why I'm still astonished by the lack of critical thinking in the US. Putting all emotional ties aside, what would be gained strategically from bombing a holocaust memorial? These people don't bother to stop and think for two seconds about anything.

      • throw42069at [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        American totalitarianism has destroyed all aspects of critical thinking in the population. The people are told what to think and follow blindly.

        One day, the media expresses their sordid disapproval of the migrant concentration camps on the southern border, even going so far as to label them "kids in cages", the next day the camps are presented as merely detention camps and are 'good, actually'. The same with shootings. Black-on-black crime is presented as savage, freakish crimes while police murders are merely "police-involved shootings". Black victims of violence were 'no angels' while white victims of violence were the most purest angels of heaven. "Lethal aid", an especially egregious example of media manipulation, where the media straight up copies state department statements verbatim. (Newspeak)

        In the same article, the Chinese state apparatus is first presented as so capable that they can imprison 12 million (!) Uyghurs without resistance or fleeing. Then, contradicting the above statement, the article pivots over to how the Chinese state is on the brink of collapse and must be given the final 'kick in the rotten door'. (Doublethink)

        Public figures are ostracized by the public for merely being perceived as 'weak'. Apparently, merely apologizing to the designated enemies is enough to become unaccepted by the America public these days. John Cena went from a beloved character to public enemy overnight.

        The American people, so engrossed in their jingoism, have become completely unable to perceive nuance. Before expressing any slightly divergent opinion to the official line, you must explicitly denounce the designated enemies lest you be accused of being a foreign agent. On any post slightly related to China, you must exclaim "Fuck the CCP!", otherwise you are the #1 wumao of the century. You must have your 2 Minute Hate.

        And the American people, never questioning a single thing, believe this, then believe that, simultaneously - they simultaneously believe contradictory thoughts but never realize it because they never actually critically evaluate the information they are fed. They are told that the 'free press', by virtue of being free, is always correct, never considering that the only thing the American free press is free of is factual information.

        As with all American accusations of foreign wrongdoing, the accusation of Soviet totalitarianism is projection too.

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
          ·
          3 years ago

          Where is the first crack in this wall? I don’t want to believe that it’s incurable. I’m here now, aren’t I?

          • throw42069at [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            Declining material conditions (happening right now) will push people into the arms of radicals.

            • SaniFlush [any, any]
              ·
              3 years ago

              And we need to be there to promote the constructive and meaningful kind of radicalization, instead of the seductive stank of jingoism…

              • throw42069at [he/him]
                ·
                3 years ago

                We must agitate and let it be known that socialism is the only solution to the people's problems.

                • SaniFlush [any, any]
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  And build some damn class solidarity. Sick of people who also work at grocery stores threatening to give me a bad review because I got in their personal space while bagging their stuff.

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I completely quit expecting Americans to consider "how would this action benefit the supposed perpetrator" about geopolitics when everyone insisted that Assad gassed those people after the US announced they chemical weapons were the deciding factor on whether or not they'd attack Syria.