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/ :kitty-cri-texas:
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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The only logic here is that they want to ensure that a rump state survives the war, holding onto Ukraine's westernmost territories. They assume Russia will decide the confrontation is not worth it and settle for the eastern territories. It's a very bold assumption. This is not the time I'd gamble on underestimating Putin.
Not to mention, this would basically serve as cover for importing even more munitions. Russia could only interpret it as an escalation.
Or Poland taking its former territories back.
My dad watches a ton of Russian media, and that's the current rumor on this -- Poland wants a piece of the pie. Which, if it happens will be just the funniest shit ever.
Undoing the Partition one World War at a time.
I wanna meet that dad
You don't. He's proof positive that boomers are all fucked in the head. Used to be a party member back in communist days. Then turned lib after the fall, then very right wing. Used to hate Putin because muh nationalism doesn't allow a Great Power to have so much influence over our politics. Then decided he stans Putin cause he sticks it to the weak-wristed Westerners. Huge China stan, but is anti-communist. Pure :brainworms:
That sucks, really shows how much people can be influenced over the years. The more I study history the more I see the true revolutionaries dug their heels into communist ideology and did not waver.
A lot of boomers in the US used to be very radical because they had long hair once, never beat up a gay person, and owned a copy of Malcolm X autobiography. They were sold a story of The Future, where conditions continue to improve, now they truly believe Biden is as far left as it gets while material conditions have continued to get worse in their lifetimes.
To me the takeaway is different. I am saddened by our communist party's utter failure to instill in the people a comprehensive theoretical understanding of Marxist-Leninist thought. Maybe it is as Xi claims, and the ideological break with Stalinism really cut at the roots of the whole project. The children of the party leaders became some of the most rapacious privitisation ghouls in the 90s and early 2000s. The current Socialist party is full of libs and completely lacks any form of class-based analysis or commitment to radical politics. And their aging, dwindling voters -- the people who grew up in the Cold War and were "forced" (libs say) to study marxism -- don't seem to see anything wrong with this. It's just red team vs blue team.
What communist party and socialist party are you referring to? In the US or China?
Class-based analysis is all but banned in the US from where I sit. Class as a concept is something you claw your way up, to escape from, with becoming a class traitor the only worthy goal. Even liberal colleges don't touch class solidarity because the grift relies on language and concepts alienating to the "non-educated" working class, as many now understand the use of post-modernism to the status quo - ironic that railing against post-modernism has become a reactionary talking point where academic radlibs seem to routinely/conveniently take the spotlight whenever Marxism appears in the cultural milieu.
Bulgaria. Our guys actually were in power.
ah, okay I may have missed that context, I apologize
Nah, I just noticed I didn't mention it. I've mentioned in other threads where I'm from and kinda zoned out on it.
poland is nationalist enough to incorporate the most Vile Part of Ukraine Faschism (Lwiw) into Poland.. Earning itself the eternal hatred of Rump Ukraine and its NATO Armed Gladio's , which will then at least leave (Novo)Russia alone..
Poland can annex Ukraine and westoids and Ukrainian propaganda will celebrate it.
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Putin says everything flatly, I'm pretty sure if they keep pushing him he will glumly press the "end world" button and sigh 'i told you what would happen'
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Liberals have magical thinking about American forces. Placing them in Ukraine will declare it a no-no zone that Russia troops can't get to.