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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
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1B1PLMhbHmG1aJ2-QNxHY1TksI6HlNhqF&ll=48.60777942568106%2C36.4496511633501&z=7
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.42l.fr/RWApodcast
https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary :kitty-cri:
https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet
https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518
https://www.youtube.com/c/DefensePoliticsAsia/videos
obvious disclaimers about taking all of them with tonnes of salt etc
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
Previous megathreads
!news@hexbear.net RSS Feed https://hexbear.net/feeds/c/news.xml
Should we expect to see Russia going aggro on the countries sanctioning them by cancelling debt payments and seizing their assets in Russia? How long do you think Russia could go on as weighed down as it is rn?
Honestly I'm a little surprised Russian counter sanctions haven't been harsher around the exports of things like oil, gas, rare metals and minerals. Doing so would hurt them too, just like our sanctions are going to hit the US and especially Europe pretty hard, but they'd cause considerably more pain to the US and Europe. Perhaps they're planning on using them as economic bargaining chips if people ever come to the table properly, or maybe they think maintaing some trade buys them time over further escalation.
From what I'm reading, Russia could go on indefinitely even with the current sanctions regime. The economy will take a huge hit, and may stagnate in the future, but they've done enough reindustrialisation and built enough alternative infrastructure for things like payment systems, along with places like China and India, that they pivot there instead.
There's also the fact that as oil prices keep rising because of this, that'll start a big new influx of cash for them as a net exporter. That's why the US state department is going round trying to somewhat normalise relationships with countries like Venezuela to produce more oil (although they've backtracked on that after the Senate through a fit, publicly at least). Increased supply and production would help to neutralise that benefit for Russia
So on the one hand the US/NATO are hoping to inflict maximum economic pain as fast as possible to put pressure on Putin. While Putin is hoping he can weather the storm for long enough to complete the pivot to Asia. Either way, Russia will continue in one form or another.
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It's possible, but I'm not so sure as I'm of the belief that the US response to this has been part of a broader attempt by the US to isolate Europe from Russia and China economically and force them to come hat in hand for expensive LNG most notably.
Ye, Germany not upping their „defense“ budget has been well known complaint for years, same for north stream 2. :biden-troll:
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It depends on whether they were likely to escalate anyway. With the exception of seizing the funds of Russia's central bank, it seems like most of the sanctions were factored into Putin's decision to invade and that has to be because Russia has been treated pretty much as a pariah state to one degree or another the whole time anyway, despite trying to play nice economically with its neighbors and engage in or with NATO and the EU.
But I agree, the goal wouldn't necessarily be to hurt Europe specifically it'd just be a result of energy counter sanctions especially. Rare metals and minerals would likely hurt everyone but do more damage to the US due to its bigger focus on things like aviation and car manufacturing (although that obviously hits Europe too).