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

    so like, is this us reaching the "first they came for the communists" moment? Is that happening now? Or was that after the Nazis official rise to power

    I'm already convinced that events so far have sealed europes fate to be set ablaze by nazis once more

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

        and also that there is explicitly an international effort of fascists making their way to Ukraine to join the fighting, we're witnessing the birth of the fascist european equivalent of ISIS, Unite The Right but for the international stage and with the full and uncritical backing of all western media

        So we have a recipe for armed, organized, networks of fascists across europe and the west who we are arming to the teeth and allowing to forge revolutionary bonds with one another through the war

        This is the biggest propaganda victory for fascists since, I don't even know

          • Vncredleader
            ·
            3 years ago

            PCP is one of the few European communist parties that has really remained based and intact.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            "You're a dangerous Neo-Nazi on parole for weapons charges but it's okay if you go to another state to fight for a Nazi insurgency. Just try not to kill any minorities while you're over there. Have fun! Send us a post card!"

        • StuporTrooper [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          also that there is explicitly an international effort of fascists making their way to Ukraine to join the fighting

          Luckily the Ukrainians don't care about foreign fighters and most of them are getting bodied or running to Poland.

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

            I've never known fascists to be great critical thinkers, I don't think this will put a single one off, aside from those that, happily, will get domed

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
              ·
              3 years ago

              Well fascists ideologically follow this weird thing called "ethno-supremacism" where they think anyone that isn't a part of their in-group is worth less than the gum sticking to their shoes.

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

                They also don't really believe in words having true meaning, and everything is open to change and "that's just the way it is now." Its not like "whiteness" is even a thing, but that doesn't seem to stop em

                All it would take is for this new wave of fascism to center on "Western Supremacy" in a more general sense to open up a big tent, before of course narrowing to a teeny pyramid of those pure enough

        • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          Russia destroyed ISIS and crushed that organization when they flocked to Syria, they can do the same here. This is the trash taking itself out

            • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
              ·
              3 years ago

              I’m sure you were saying the same thing during the Syrian Civil War and calling Assad a fascist and Russia an imperialist

              If there’s one thing you can count on Russia for its military destruction of its enemies in wartime

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

                I’m sure you were saying the same thing during the Syrian Civil War and calling Assad a fascist and Russia an imperialist

                Mostly missed this one due to not being politically involved or educated at the time, so, no

                If there’s one thing you can count on Russia for its military destruction of its enemies in wartime

                Well it's a good thing their enemies are and always will only be the enemies of the proletariat, and not of their imperial government, right?

                Right?

                • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  Let me spoil the ending for you because the tankies were right about Syria and have always been right: This both sides nonsense is childish. The anti-NATO, anti-terrorist side is correct and needs critical support and victory.

                • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  Making up future hypotheticals to get mad about instead of looking at the actual situation happening right now in the real world

                  • MaeBorowski [she/her]
                    ·
                    3 years ago

                    I don't even necessarily think you're wrong about Russia, but you're the one making up and arguing about future hypotheticals so that's a weird thing to accuse someone else of doing. It's also ridiculous to demand or even expect that others give their full support of a capitalist power. Being suspicious of Russia's future plans (while also recognizing they are not the aggressors but are doing the truly good deed of killing nazis here and now) is absolutely a valid position for leftists.

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

                Assad is a fascist.

                He literally invited David fucking Duke former Grand Wizard of the KKK for a state visit and put him on national TV to do a fascist rally saying Syria's fight against Israel and the US rights fight against (((zionists))) are one struggle.

                The printing house personally owned by his former minister of defense (a marriage of state and corporate power, I wonder where I've heard that one before :thonk: ) has published 2 new editions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the last 2 decades along with some several blood libel books he personally wrote and the Syrian Ministry of Information in 2005 decided that was what they wanted to show at the Syrian stall of the Cairo International Book Fair.

                None of this justifies the carpet bombing of Syrian cities, but Bashar, Hafez, and the Syrian Ba'athist party are violently antisemitic nazi sympathiser, anticommunist ethnonationalists and have been since before they first took power.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        We have to consider where all of this flood of NATO weapons is going to end up too.

        If I was part of a state anti-terrorism command I would be losing my shit right now. Javelin's can kill anything that moves from 2km away. School bus full of nuns? Yacht full of prime ministers? Balcony full of diplomats with a line of sight to a nearby hill? Boom. Boom. Boom. And then there's all the small arms and high explosives that are going to turn up missing, the armed drones, the RPGs, and god knows what else.

    • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      They’ve been coming for the communists, Jews, LGBT and Russian speakers for 8 years. Highest hate crimes in each of these categories in the post-Soviet states, sometimes higher than all other post-Soviet states combined. It was getting worse each year. They were fucking Nazis

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Don't forget Roma. Europe hates Roma people probably more than any other minority.

        • mark213686123 [none/use name]
          ·
          3 years ago

          Yeah it sucks I know people who got discriminated against as Roma because they can't even distinguish between Roma and poor people

    • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Think I might've missed something. Did Putin come out and say he supports the communist left in Russia?

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

        No, ukraine banned all 'opposition/ pro russia' parties(also all of the leftist parties), and we're seeing evidence of mass punishment of undesirables or people who just look/sound russian or have incorrect politics by militia/ military police/ fashy citizens

        plus, from the word go the west has been pushing "russia is commulism!!!1!" narrative, this was the goal

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

          For being a very based guy, Zelensky seems to be pretty pro censorship. Liberals neglect his banning of TV channels he didn't like (a year before the invasion).

          https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-medvedchuk-tv-channels-zelenskiy-defends-ban/31085877.html