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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Nobody here is "justifying" anything, justification is a process undertaken by an individual in response to their own actions and none of us are in control of the Russian invasion. We're analyzing cause and effect.
Cause: US undermine the USSR and handpick Putin.
Effect: Putin takes advantage and rebuilds Russia with a focus on national capitalism rather than allowing the exploitation of western companies to pillage the country.
Cause: US handpicks Ukraine's government after a coup and makes it anti-Russia, and then Ukraine starts bombarding Donbass.
Effect: Tensions raise dramatically.
Cause: NATO, an anti-Russian alliance in all but name, begins encroaching closer and closer to Russia's territory.
Effect: Putin invades Ukraine to stop that process, as well as to help Donbass.
That's the basis of "fuck around and find out". Those who fuck around "deserve" it only insofar that they took an action, particularly one that negatively affects other people, that would have bad consequences for them. We aren't sitting around a table discussing "Hmm, how many Ukrainian civilians are worth a multipolar world?" because that's a nonsensical question.
Literally who is saying this anymore? Maybe like, in the first week, but now it's pretty obvious that we were mistaken and this was premeditated months if not years in advance. I have great news for you, the contradiction has been resolved! No need to complain about this any longer!
It doesn't matter if you think Putin had no other choice or not, because none of us are Putin. Putin made a choice in his circumstances that none of us are in or have been or will be in. This is just idealist nonsense. Cause and effect. Actions have consequences. NATO gets closer, Putin feels threatened. Ukraine goes pro-US, Putin feels threatened. Understanding - even sympathizing - as to why somebody does something isn't giving them support for that action.
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Please, report back when your particular ideology achieves anything at all so you can show us how it's done! I will make sure to report to the global socialist hivemind that advises what every socialist should be doing regardless of their location, history, race, gender, and sexuality and let them know that we should be following your course instead of the "simp for Putin for no reason" protocol we currently have in place! After all, we are all free to follow our own destinies free from the mental and physical prison of our material interests and circumstances!
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i ain't reading all that. happy for you tho. or sorry that happened
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I declare you the official winner of this debate. Congratulations! Another tally on the (I'm sure) long list of people you've convinced that you're right and they're wrong through logical arguments! As you've so thoroughly disproven all my arguments, there's no longer any need to reply to me!
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Fine, I'll re-engage. What part of Putin's strategy is very stupid? All I've seen are people describing what's going on and then saying "and obviously this is bad and stupid" as if we should automatically agree that that is the case. I accept that some errors have been made - such as not destroying key features and facilities until only recently - but what's wrong in a more macro sense? Or is it so many micro errors that it all contributes to the macro? Or are you not talking about the invasion itself but everything else going on around it?
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There's only 3 more countries on Russia's border (i.e. that Russia could invade without it causing WW3) that haven't joined NATO that are being proposed to. Ukraine, Finland, and Georgia. One of those countries Putin is invading, Georgia is a strongly aspirant country to join NATO but is currently engaged in territorial disputes and is far from Moscow, which really only leaves Finland, and while the majority of Finnish people support joining it, I get the impression from what I've read that the government is quite wary of it.
Who the fuck is Roderic Day? I'm basing this off of Western neo-realist ghouls themselves saying Russia was going to respond at some point to NATO expansionism and Ukraine's forays into the Donbass region. This is fucking stuff Mark Ames had been regularly pointing out for years, and even mentioned countless times that Putin would respond, only to start flip flopping during the lead-up to when Putin actually did respond.
Imagine trying to resolve non-sequiturs, when there's three decades worth of historical reality to contend with. But what is your critique of all this, idealist Hexbear poster?
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this comment could be a museum piece for what happens when you don't interpret things with a materialist lens;
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you have to want to think before you are able to
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I speak to a few direct points that are closest to our thread but if you want me to comment on something else in particular just let me know what exactly to talk about.
Regarding, Mark Ames' take on Russia's invasion - I don't follow this guy but it sounds like (I have to hear about him second-hand non-stop) before the war he represented Russia's side of the story and now he's decided to change camps. I take it as given that no one can really pretend to know what Russia is actually hoping to gain in this war just as we can't really know what the US was up to in Ukraine, specifically - at least not yet, credible testimony on those may emerge over time but for now all we can do is look at what facts we have and speculate. I think Mark Ames is reading the room and seeing how anyone in the West who is even giving a Russia a luke-warm defense is getting literally scrubbed from the internet. That is not good for him as a content producer and that is going to influence him more than he'll admit - so walking back his prior rationalizations so that he can continue to operate in a russophobic political climate makes the most sense when accounting for his material conditions. Beyond that, while the media would gladly have everyone believe that Russia's war isn't going well, I'd say that evidence points to the contrary - they are clearly winning. Calling the war "stupid" seems myopic considering that the groundwork for this war was laid 8 years ago - it had to pop off at some point and for someone to claim they know better than Russian intelligence about when the best time for them to handle this was is arrogant at best.
Regarding the thing about two people drawing the same conclusion and materialism - Marxism is (or aspires to be depending on who you ask) a science - a method with which the world can be analyzed and conclusions can be drawn so that actions that benefit humanity can be taken. But, for what we're discussing we just need the first bit. For people who are trying to get at the concrete truth of a matter (why did Russia invade / why was NATO training/advising Ukraine, etc) they will apply their framework of perception to the information at hand and after aggregating information they will conclude with whatever is most plausible. This isn't to say that the materialist approach is the only method, but when two people are using the same method and given the same limited set of data - it comes as no surprise when they reach similar conclusions. Sure people have their blindspots but there will still be common denominators. People who interpret the world in the same way will even likely have the same political reflexes/instincts within arguments. Echo-chambers would constitute for exactness in phrasing/evidence cited but a lot of what is being discussed has to sadly be presupposed when so much of the information has been intentionally obfuscated.
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