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
Previous megathreads
!news@hexbear.net RSS Feed https://hexbear.net/feeds/c/news.xml
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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.
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
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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)
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Russia will probably have a big brain drain over this, so technical talent will likely flow out
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.
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.
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...
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True I was just kind of curious because I don't think that's ever happened before, really stinks if you are a domestic investor for that matter too.
I guess that's why everyone always said Russian stocks are so cheap in valuations because risks of this are priced in.