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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

      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]M
            ·
            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

                You are getting mad at the Liberal scratchers instead of the Liberals, who are always waiting for the right moment to become fascist

                  • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
                    ·
                    3 years ago

                    Me: when you scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds

                    You: Yikes, better never scratch liberals then. Just leave them alone forever and let them get their way. If anyone scratches them it’s the scratchers fault for creating a fascist.

                      • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
                        ·
                        3 years ago

                        You are blaming Russia for making “more fascists” with their actions. They are not. They are only tearing off the paper thin facade that disguises the western fascists and revealing them for what they always have been

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

                          I am not blaming russia lmao.

                          I am lamenting the likely material consequences of this action/ the geopolitical situation and pushing back against the narrative that akshully russia is the vanguard against fascisms!!!

                          How you think that means I'm saying we should leave the libs be lest we should scratch them, seriously, what the fuck comments are you reading here??

                          Are we playing the liberal finger pointing who's fault is it game, or are we doing materialism? pick one and let me know, thanks

                          • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
                            ·
                            3 years ago

                            You have to know nothing about Maidan Ukraine to think this is making the Nazi situation worse globally. Worse than a fascist state foothold and recruiting ground for the world fascist movement? If Russia did nothing and allowed Ukraine to continue festering and metastizing and importing and training and funding global neonazism then that would be materially worse

                            Tens of thousands of Nazis are getting destroyed as we speak, including the only official fascist state on Earth.

                            It is NATOs fault entirely for funding and arming these Nazis

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

                              It is NATOs fault entirely for funding and arming these Nazis

                              we agree on this, everything else is :jesse-wtf: not even resembling my comments

                              I'm disengaging, please stop replying to me. Feel free to totally own me by editing your comment

      • 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.