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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

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

    This entire saga with the west has just shown how important it is for global south nations to de-link from the imperial core in some fashion. To build our own systems to counter those from the west. Of the five monopolies, (nuclear weapons, communication systems, financial systems, technology and natural resources), the west has attempted to remove Russia from all of them except nuclear weapons, and that's just because they can't physically do that. China got it right in building its own systems in this regard to counteract the monopolies of the west.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Yeah... I myself is utterly amazed of how thoroughly the west has shot itself in the foot over this one. These sanctions are a one-off thing. The next time around the BadCountry in question will have hedged its position by integrating with non-western economic systems.

        And although I'm no finance guy I can't imagine how a shift to non-western financial systems, the Chinese yuan and non-western supply chains is going to do anything but significantly harm the ability of western capital to extract profits.

        The lashing out we see is utterly irrational.

      • anoncpc [comrade/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Yea. This is the chance for Putin to put the oligarch down once and for all, and not letting capital and technical talents to flow out

            • Ursus_Hexagonus [he/him]
              ·
              3 years ago

              My very basic understanding: A state in control of its own currency can generate as much money as it wants, so there is no good reason to run it like a household economy thinking it has to have more income than expenses. The limiting factor is that inflation could take off, but that could be controlled through taxation (and unemployment, but MMT proponents usually want to do away with that)

              • W_Hexa_W
                ·
                1 year ago

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        • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          Russia will probably have a big brain drain over this, so technical talent will likely flow out

          • anoncpc [comrade/them]
            ·
            3 years ago

            It’s already flow out since the Soviet collapse. When the oligarch sell the country and move their capital over sea, not investing, the brain drain already happen. Now it’s time for Russia to rebuild their economy to be more robust and not depend on the west.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Ruble is already stabilizing, there is no panic or hyperinflation that ensue.

        The TrueAnon crew mentioned this in passing in one of their Ukraine eps, as did someone on either TrashFuture or WTYP fairly recently.

        The Russian economy is significantly more insulated from the west than it was in the early 90s. Like, Russians don't run out of pizza simply because the run out of Pizza Huts.

        Their biggest trading partner is China, and the Chinese are very pointedly staying neutral. After that, Western Europe need Russian gas far more than Russia needs Western luxury goods.

      • leredditor99 [he/him,none/use name]
        ·
        3 years ago

        What I don't really get is what happens to Russian stocks.

        Blackrock and Direxion have ended their Russian etfs, and there are sanctions on individual Russian securities. So does the Russian stock market just die in that case? It closed for some number of weeks for trading, and possibly not even going to be investable when it re-opens...

    • leredditor99 [he/him,none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Yep for sure. It's kind of crazy actually how in under two weeks they can just straight up cut you off from basically everything.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      the west has attempted to remove Russia from all of them except nuclear weapons, and that’s just because they can’t physically do that

      Clinton, Bush Jr, and Obama all spent significant time and political capital trying to squeeze nukes out of Russia.

      But when you can't get a handful of nukes out of North Korea, the Russian project seems that much more insurmountable.