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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  • plov_mix [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    This reminds me of what Georg Lukacs said about Balzac’s novels. Balzac’s politics were a cringy longing for the return of feudal valor and virtue. But the realism of his novels despite his politics still “objectively” reflected the state of French bourgeois society, in fact his novels reflected reality even better than the more liberal and progressive Zola (according to Lukacs that is).

    Perhaps the cool-blooded “realists” of the bourgeoisie have a similar effect, compared to the self-deluding liberals. But then on the other hand, the bourgeoisie needs liberalism to delude most people but also “realism” to make sure those in charge aren’t high on their own propaganda. The US has abysmally failed on this latter front

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The people least effected by the material world are the ones most able to retreat into idealism. Or inversely Matt's treat paradox where a diminishing enfranchisement to politically decide the material conditions forces people into the idealist, superstructural world of understanding. Not sure which came first the chicken or the poverty