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

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

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  • RandyLahey [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    ive become totally fascinated by the narwhal bacon brigade, like this guy posting from ukraine as part of the reddit legion (its at least 50/50 that hes not there at all but the posting timeline at least checks out)

    spoiler

    Mate... I am literally in Lviv right now. I signed my contract and am getting transported to the Foreign Legion Base tomorrow. I have no combat experience as I only volunteered in a foreign navy and they said they need EVERYONE.

    Canadian actually haha I was a volunteer in the Gabonese Navy

    My get out plan is non-existent. I’m here to help defend Ukraine and only plan on running if they start dropping Vacuum bombs like crazy or nukes regularly. Then my get out plan is to just steal a car and drive or run/walk to the border.

    emphasising that this is posted on a thread about steam games being expensive in russia now while he is in ukraine with the reddit legion, the literal meme come to life:

    This is even more funny because in Rust (the game I used to play and I have 10k hours in) the Russians are known for being more than likely a cheater because when they get caught they can buy a new account for so cheap. I’m glad for the gamers this is happening.

    in a thread about the game "satisfactory" titled "Mate of mine has been playing for 12 hours now, should I do something or?", again while he is in ukraine with the reddit legion:

    Bro that is rookie shit. My friends usually message me after 20+hr

    and now claiming that reddit hq was never hit

    THIS IS NOT TRUE! I WAS AT THIS BASE! He was kicked out for being part of a far-right extremist group back in the US because we want no part of them or any other group that would make us look like Azov.

    All those lies are ridiculous. Especially the ones at the border haha I know many foreigners who have decided to pussy out of the fight and Ukrainians helped them cross back into Poland within 12-24hr.

    Also our base was not hit at all lol

    :gamer-gulag:

    • Amdiroverestel [comrade/them,he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      or they start dropping nukes regularly

      Lmao, a stray nuke here and there is fine, but I will not stand for multiple scheduled nukes!

    • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      telling the Ukrainian generals staff I'm a wizard in logistics due to my hours in satisfactory, an expert in combat due to my hours in rust, and an amazing unit leader due to my hours in ARMA

      • RandyLahey [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        "with my high apm theyll definitely promote me to general, im gonna be just like rommel" :so-true:

    • riley
      ·
      1 year ago

      deleted by creator

    • anaesidemus [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      the plot thickens!

      I have been fully vegan ever since I moved out before that being poor af and living with crazy carnists parents they would have let me starve to death

      • RandyLahey [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        lol turning up to the neo-nazi cannon fodder barracks and demanding they cook me some beyond burgers with zero cognitive dissonance

        • anaesidemus [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          going through that user page and seeing him talk about video games (usually in a very elitist tone) and cats and whatnot and then suddenly he's in Ukraine with no applicable skills or life experience is just jarring. Peak :zizek-ok: :so-true: :brainworms:

          • Multihedra [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            Discourse in colonialism man, cesaire quoting those old French fuckers talking about how the European isn’t cut out for farming or manual labor, only being a soldier lol

            • StuporTrooper [he/him]
              ·
              3 years ago

              Europeans were barbarians to the Ancient world and they never stopped being barbarians.

          • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
            ·
            3 years ago

            I have to imagine this is what most of the people Brace Belsen encountered in Syria with the YPG were like, we are just even more aware of what they're up to (homie volunteered in Gabon for the Navy as a Canadian, that can't have been good....)

            • meme_monster [none/use name]
              ·
              3 years ago

              Has Brace talked about this extensively anywhere? What is Brace's opinion of joining foreign wars after having gone there and come back?

              • Vncredleader
                ·
                3 years ago

                I remember he said something offhand about a friend saying they wanted to volunteer to fight in Donbas which he was like "ummm maybe take a few months before committing to that", he was against the idea of becoming involved in that.

              • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
                ·
                3 years ago

                I should have said "what they were like before the YPG got good at recruiting"

                https://kyleorton.co.uk/2017/02/17/life-under-the-kurdish-ypg-in-syria/

                At first there was just mostly, like, psychopaths that wanted to come kill people. But they turned out to be, like, fucking nut-cases so they kind of all got kicked out. There was this one guy named Tim the Cannibal … Once during an operation they had blown up an ISIS guy with an RPG and the guy was pretty well cooked so he [cannibalism]

                Now, it’s, like, I’d say it’s 75% Left-wing people. The people I’m with now, like, we have me and other American communists, two French anarchists … and there’s like a bunch of French Maoists in the platoon next to ours, which is like a Maoist platoon. So it’s mostly just Left-wing people and then, like, some pretty much apolitical vets who almost uniformly have been kicked out of the U.S. military

                So imagine that, plus right-wing Azov's attempts to find ideological recruits with the help of the US government and their ah, network, of right-wing gun nuts.

    • MaeBorowski [she/her]
      ·
      3 years ago

      All these 'terminally online' posts from a real fucking war zone are just so surreal to me. Holy fuck.