Thank you @SeventyTwoTrillion for all your effort. :sankara-salute:
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
I don’t understand russian media, they are stalking nationalist fervor, but at the same time there is no way to do what they want. Occupying ukraine is completely unfeasible, but they aren’t scaling down rhetoric :sadness-abysmal:
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they gotta free my man Don Bass!
:thicc-trump: :pog-fish:
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Russia also never planned to attack ukraine, they also planned to collapse government in a week.
If this whole thing was always only about donbas, it is some advanced seppuku.
Tbf, it's also about Crimea as well, which is one of the reasons why they're not pulling out of the south of Ukraine. The Ukrainians cut off the canals that supply Crimea with fresh water when Russia seized it in 2014, and Russia has been struggling to supply the peninsula with fresh water since, so one of the major reasons they occupied that territory is to to reopen the canals and get water back to Crimea.
That’s fair enough, but they could always build desalination plants with the amount of money they’ve just torched
Desalination is incredibly inefficient and not verysustainable. Creates extremely toxic and sometimes highly radioactive waste.
Isn't that just nuclear desalination?
The primary issue is that desal is only cost effective for drinking water, no agricultural and most industrial uses.
No, brine from saltwater can be by nature radioactive. Ocean water actually has quite a lot of radioactive materials and toxic heavy metals and if you remove all the water over time it all clumps up in one spot. We usually lazily dump this waste water not too far from plants which can kill an entire local saltwater ecosystem surprisingly quickly. Sometimes we use this brine on roads to pretty disastrous effects as well
True, though from the Russia perspective that could've been seen as a potentially huge waste of money/resources.
Russia's difficulties resupplying Crimea would've gone beyond just water and effected them militarily, so if Ukraine decided to invade and retake that territory, then Russia could've been in a pretty difficult situation trying to hold it. At this point, there's only a bit of evidence to suggest that Ukraine was going to imminently invade Crimea, which is that Russian/DPR forces claim to have found premade victory medals for an upcoming Crimean campaign in Mariupol (having victory medals made before actually winning isn't unheard of btw).
Now idk if the claims about victory medals are actually true at this point, but it's very likely that Russia has considered a Ukrainian offensive into Crimea to be a very real possibility at some point. So with that in mind, putting in all of the effort and resources necessary to make a desalination plant in Crimea would look rather pointless if you think that there's a good chance the Ukrainians are going to invade and possibly retake the peninsula. So from that perspective, invading Ukraine first, taking the canals and establishing a land bridge to Crimea starts to look like a much safer and more efficient option compared to building a desalination plant and hoping that Ukraine either doesn't invade or that you can hold them off if they do invade.
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Talking about what russia never planned/claim to never plan is absurd, as they are improvising.
Taking rest of dnr is not worth finland in nato from security view
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Occupying the whole of Ukraine is unfeasible, but occupying the east and south is. The population in those regions are much more friendly to Russia, and all of Russia's forces are concentrated in those regions now that they've pulled out of Kiev and the north of Ukraine in general
But that’s not “denazifying”, especially considering pow thingies. I guessed/hoped they would have start “washing away our hands” dance to prepare for peace treaty
Denazification was always rhetoric to mobilize ‚great patriotic war‘ sentiment, combined with the real problem of nazi militias and influence on the executive branch of ukraine. Once those are thoroughly broken I think you can claim a success in that war goal.
it is, but now they’ve mobilized tv-users, and they got very mad after peace talks, so I would have thought they started some calming down in news cycle
Well, Russian POW got executed or returned castrate doesn't help either.
I don’t get much news from russia and their sentiment towards the ongoing operation tbh.
I know that this may be hard to believe, but Russians are like everyone else on earth. Your aunt who’s opinions flip immediately when the TV tells them to also has an antimatter counterpart in Russia.
IIRC, @comi is Russian, so he probably knows that.
Keeping people in jingoistic haze is a classic bourgeoisie press tactic though? They only need to sell whatever the end result is as a victory or at least the best practically possible outcome some time later.