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
Some countries and NGOs are finally talking about removing all vetoes from the security council so that all war crimes can be prosecuted.
It is long past due that war criminals from all countries including the five that hold security council vetoes end up at the Hague if they engage in economic or military brutality against civilians.
500k kids died in Iraq from starvation from liberal sanctions. Same as if they had been bombed with a B-2 imho.
yankees have the "invade the hague" thing
definitely not incredibly mask off lmao
i have always wondered how that scenerio would play out...like some U.S. official in on trail for war crimes and the U.S. launches a full scale invasion of europe, a nominally nuclear power. or do we just level the netherlands and the rest of europe is just like "welp oh well".
The Netherlands is not a nuclear power so no need to worry about that. An actual Hague invasion would probably not be a full-scale land invasion. It would probably be more like a bunch of special ops goons in helicopters landing in the Hague to spring the yankee war criminal out of jail before taking off again.
There wouldn't be much the rest of Europe could do about it. They would seethe and cope about it but what else could they do? Sanction the country whose financial system they depend on? Military action against a psychotic nuclear power with world-ending capabilities? Hell, given that it is the US we're talking about, most of Europe would probably be making excuses for them: "The ICC has clearly overstepped it's bounds here as colonel Braydenn Burgerfuck was clearly defending liberal western democracy when he set fire to that children's hospital".
Anyways, the Hague invasion act is a purely symbolic piece of legislation to appease chuds at home and to swing the empire's dick in the face of the rest of the world. No yank will ever face criminal responsibility at the Hague as the Evil Empire, just like Russia and Israel among others are not parties to the treaties, giving the court no jurisdiction over them. Yankee war crimes can continue uninterrupted.
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That's not really a real thing. Look at Black Hawk Down and imagine that level of carnage happening in a major European city. neat, clean extraction missions only happen in movies. Another example would be the failed attempt to rescue US hostages held by Iran after the revolution there. yet another example would be the raid on bin Laden's house, where the assault team crashed a helicopter in Pakistan. And all they were trying to do was kill and old man and his family.
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ah ok that would make more sense. so overwhelming show of force, please put down your weapons, give us our men and let us leave. blah blah sanctions and economic war to come later
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The UNSC has considered this proposal very earnestly and has decided to issue a rare 5-member ultra veto.
How do they expect this would happen, any existing process to remove the vetos could surely be vetoed itself, so you expect nations with directly opposing interests to go over to a system that has very clear and obvious advantages for one side and disadvantages for the other?
That will remove any compliance and legitimacy that was left
You know Russia would be the only country targeted by that.
A report came out in 2017 that said the 500k excess deaths from sanctions was a result of manipulation by the Baathist regime at the time. Idk if it's true there's a lot of propaganda in both directions. The 2017 study suggests that there was no increase in deaths from available census data and that Saddam's government somehow convinced the data entry people to fudge the numbers, but as far as I know they don't provide any evidence that the numbers were faked, they just say that census data doesn't show the excess mortality. I don't know what to believe. the 2017 report wouldn't be the first time that reports of excess death from sanctions were undermined, and they don't really explain how massive sanctions that directly reduced food imports didn't result in any excess deaths at all.
Ah, you see, it was because those scheming foreigners cheated and broke the sanctions. This also gives a concurrent convenient excuse for why the sanctions failed to achieve their stated purpose.
Yeah I'm very suspicious. The title of the 2017 rebuttal paper even uses "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" in its title, and you can manipulate stats in all kinds of different ways by moving the goal posts around. Even if there weren't hundreds of thousands of deaths that level of siege and restriction of calories and medicine should still have lead to a huge increase in excess deaths. Malnourished people are much less likely to carry a pregnancy to term, malnourished children get sick at a higher rate, and so forth.
And the blanket accusation that Saddam somehow changed the results without UNICEF noticing smells like cope.
Idk, the whole thing stinks. And even in the best case scenario early childhood malnourishment produces huge developmental problems that persist for your entire life. If the article said "The deaths were exaggerated and the sanctions regime is still horrific and destructive" I'd be a bit more inclined to give them credit.