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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  • VivaZapata [he/him]B
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    2 years ago

    From what I know about materialism yeah basically you're on to something here.

    An idealist lens on the conflict would be that Putin is doing this because he's evil. That's an idealistic belief (that people are just evil and that's why they do things) in contrast to the materialist one where Putin is doing this because he is a product of the conditions of the world and world history.

    • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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      2 years ago

      that's kind of funny. a lot of people accuse us of being idealists. "yeah in a perfect world where people weren't evil, communism would work, but instead gorillions have died." and they are really just completely mistaking the fact that our perspective is that of logic, in that, there are these resources, there is labor to make things happen in society, and the idea of ownership is basically an idealistic (that is, a completely ego driven concept, devoid of material reality) position, which is keeping us in a position where our own materialistic (as in resources, health insurance, a living wage) conditions - are not being met.