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

      I love that the response of people to this is:

      • Russia has run out of missiles
      • It’s not really hypersonic
      • America has better secret weapons, just wait

      And not “wow, that claim is clearly a very fucking thinly veiled threat”, or even just mild curiosity about what it might mean. Propagandised minds are something else.

      • learntocod [they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        I’ve always enjoyed the history of the warhead vs. armor competition. Surely the US is going to throw trillions at anything promising energy weapons to counter hypersonic while still keeping the sunk cost of the carrier group.

        Hear me out… “Hexbear Advanced Defense Systems LLC”

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          We sell armor for warships made with the highest grade aluminum foil and popsicle sticks because there ain't shit that can protect you from HV missiles except having so much dakka you create a wall of lead between you and the rocket. And our patented technology will save your warships literal tonnes of weight better spent on more dumb shit like rail guns that don't exist

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      I've heard hypersonic missiles travel at like Mach 10, so if shot from Moscow, Russia could hit Paris or London in about 15 minutes.

      edit: There's three(?) types of hypersonic missile at Russia's disposal. This one was the Kinzhal, which travels at Mach 10. There's also the Zircon, which is an anti-ship missile that travels at Mach 9 (which essentially means that every aircraft carrier the US has is now a bunch of floating scrap), and then the Avangard missile, which appears like it might well be real if the Kinzhal is demonstrably real, which travels at Mach 27 and can deliver a nuclear warhead anywhere on Earth. It could hit Warsaw in 2 minutes, Berlin in 3 minutes, London or Paris in 5 minutes, and Washington DC in 14 minutes.

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          "over 2000km", so definitely within range of Berlin, even from Moscow. If they shot from about the Russian border, Paris/London are about 2500km away. If shot from the border of Belarus with Lukashenko's blessing, then they're within 2000km range. And anti-missile technology is shaky at best for old, clunky missiles and a non-factor at worst for more current-gen ones, so basically, there's nothing that can stop them other than a very well-placed mountain. Even then, I don't know how fast it can accelerate to a different direction, so maybe that's not even enough.

          • kristina [she/her]
            ·
            3 years ago

            I love the fact that some guy can accidentally shoot a missile at Russia and we'll all be dead within 15 minutes

            • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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              edit-2
              3 years ago

              Yeah. If NATO decides to engage and Russia starts pulling out all the modern shit they have, and then it goes nuclear, everywhere in Europe would have, if notified immediately after the Russian nukes came out (assuming there's a good about of Avangard missiles), about 10 minutes depending on distance. Which is about enough time to talk to/text their families and then go hide under a table and hope for the best. If you're east of Germany basically then it would literally be "sprint to the nearest safest spot and pray" because you'd have a minute or two with perfect, immediate alerts.

              • kristina [she/her]
                ·
                3 years ago

                I sometimes wonder if the whole suburban thing that America has going on is partially because of our cold war mindset of trying to deter nuclear weapons from affecting us. So while the cities might get nuclear strikes All the important people™️ will be more alive

                • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  It would suck so fucking bad if, in the post-apocalyptic United States, it was ruled by America suburbanites because the people in the cities were all converted to nuclear ash and the people in rural areas were picked off one by one by roving bands of suburban American conservatives. :posadas: would be rolling in his fucking grave