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
Add to this if you can, thank you.
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
So a take I'm seeing posted and upvoted a bunch is "the US barely imports any gas from Russia there's no reason gas prices should go up".
If this resonates with you, I want to [once again] offer criticism as a comrade in the form of an ELI10, since a liberal will [correctly] see this an economically illiterate position and I don't ever want to see people handing them an easy dunk.
Oil and gas are global markets, so everything is intertwined. If you're an EU-region petroleum broker down in your office in Texas, you're seeing Europe take a nosedive since they just lost a major portion of their petroleum supply due to the sanctions. Now that they are willing to pay US$7-8 per gallon, that's more than enough to cover the cost of putting it on a boat and getting it over to them and still come out ahead of the current US$3-4 a gallon in the US and Canada, so you start selling to them and raking it in (probably gonna pull a massive bonus at the end of the year). Your colleague who manages US sales at the desk next to you is gonna watch you do this, and tell their clients that they're gonna need to pony up the equivalent of US$5 a gallon to compete with this, otherwise everything is gonna go on the boat since that's more profitable for Exxon and whoever.
To add to this. Russia exports 5 million barrels a day. If opec maximized capacity, it would only make up for 2 million barrels
Shit, I thought we just weren’t willing to ask anything of MBS. Is there any capacity they could add faster than, say, the us starting from new drilling?
This will sound chuddy, but the us producers (the smaller and medium ones who have capacity to do so) don’t want to initiate new drilling even at this price because they a. Assume the regulatory environment will change after this is over making their investments a sunk cost, b. Cut capacity to a huge degree over the last 8 years, c. Can’t find employees, d. Would rather pay dividends to shareholders (including c-suite of course)
It’s not a matter of just turning on the switch the way it is with fracking (and they can’t get enough sand)
Oh no doubt, I think increasing us capacity is a non starter. But I had assumed opec had a lot more room to run. Maybe it’s been hindered by Houthi drones.
Good explanation, and I think it's important to hammer in on the conclusion of this post - you aren't paying more at the pump strictly because of Russia, you're paying more because some asshole capitalists in Texas can exploit the situation to make a heftier profit selling a necessary good overseas. You can blame Russia or Putin, but ultimately the extra money you're spending on gas is just further enriching the planet-burning psychos at Exxon, Shell, and BP.
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