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

    Not really new but what do you guys think about these Ukrainian ancoms defending Ukraine? https://www.instagram.com/rev_dia/?hl=en

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I know little about this group, but war brings times of desperation and scarcity. Community defense falls within the purview of ideologically committed Anarchists and Marxists, and with fascists rolling around in tanks and vigilantes torturing and killing people indiscriminately, it is sorely needed.

      It's a very dangerous situation though. If they are legit, they'll easily find themselves caught in the middle of two armies who consider them enemies. If they are just jackoffs fighting hand in hand with the Nazis taking orders from a bourgeois state under martial law, none of this applies and they can eat shit.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I'd tell them to be careful before they end up taped to poles without pants

      • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        I wonder how they feel about their comrades-in-arms being Nazis abducting communists and union activists and torturing them to death

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

          They may not be (seemingly can't see the linked page without being logged into Instagram; feel free to disregard or correct if anyone has more info about affiliation). Some "anarchists" have joined the "Territorial Defense Forces". Some anarchists have not, and are simply practicing community defense; hopefully against the goons of both nation-states and unaffiliated fascists alike.

          • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            If they are part of the official Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces then they are indeed fighting under the direct command of Nazi battalions and not just nebulously for “defense”

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

      Technically the og anarchists fought the soviets too, Marxism and anarchism weren’t friends until they had to be in the west due to their mutual irrelevance.

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

        How will they mesh with the nazis of the armed forces though?

        One of their posts seems to address this:

        Why do anarchists go to war?

        Many people still do not understand why the anarchists suddenly decided to go to war against Russia.

        This is partly due to Russian propaganda, which positions Russia as an antifascist force fighting neonazi regime in Ukraine. Partly because many people see Putin as a fighter against USA imperialism.

        The fact is that the current war is not war between Ukraine and Russia, but the war for the future of all countries of the former Soviet Union. The Russian government has been the guarantor of dictatorial regimes throughout the CIS for the long time. It supports them in difficult times, as it was in cases of Belarus and Kazakhstan.

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
          ·
          3 years ago

          The fact is that the current war is not war between Ukraine and Russia, but the war for the future of all countries of the former Soviet Union. The Russian government has been the guarantor of dictatorial regimes throughout the CIS for the long time. It supports them in difficult times, as it was in cases of Belarus and Kazakhstan.

          These words ring pretty hallow when the people fighting alongside you are Nazis and NATO, probably the most efficient anarchist killers in history

          There is no victory or future for anarchism under NATO, the Euro, or the hellscape Eastern Europe would become should neo-Nazis realize their ambitions

          • riley
            ·
            1 year ago

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

        Marxists also opposed the Soviet Union. There was plenty of comradeship between anarchists and (many) other socialists outside the West and while both "were relevant".

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

          …there are pros and cons here but I mean true relevance when anarchists were still a thing between ww1 and ww2. (Technically I can bring up the competition between the first and second internationales but whatever)