Thank you @SeventyTwoTrillion for all your effort. :sankara-salute:

Old Map for reference

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

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  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    9/11 was a little before current political splits occurred, like red state blue state were new terms back then. So back then it felt like liberals and conservatives weren't as distinct for one thing.

    There was a very immediate unification among Americans that all Muslims needed to be exterminated immediately. It was more severe than anything we have now, unless there have been incidents of Russian speakers getting murdered or Orthodox churches getting vandalized. Because that happened. Sikh people wearing turbans would get murdered. The nightly news would be endless stories of nefarious Al Qaeda plots everywhere. There was that completely fabricated story about the giant mountain compound.

    Everyone was afraid too back then, like the US was going to get invaded and destroyed within a matter of weeks. The lead up to the Iraq War was a horrifying parade of state department ghouls being given full authority to rile up the public into despising countries they had never even heard of.

    Also recruiters were everywhere. Military propaganda in every ad, before movies, in the movies, in the mouths of your relatives.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Yeah we had one of those in front of my school too. The most evil thing we did were flag prayers, where the students would circle around the American flag every morning, hold hands, and pray for the longevity and safety of the USA. It was encouraged by teachers at first, then became a self-directed thing by the students. One kid got featured in the local news for his ardent strict adherence to daily flagpole prayers.

        There's simply nothing like that now that I know of. Post 9/11 George W. USA, like 2001 to around 2007, was simply evil on a level I can't begin to describe. Social panics everywhere, people getting fired for lack of appropriate patriotism, songs on the radio censored. It was real, real bad. People seem bloodthirsty and fascist now but it just doesn't compare to back then. People now are more worn out and tired.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Is there a link to further reading on this? I barely remember the anthrax scare...

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Someone tried to set a Russian school in Berlin on fire. Luckily it was an amateurish attempt and little damage was done.

      The Russian orthodox church in Copenhagen was graffitied with Z-symbols despite having expressed sympathy for the suffering of the Ukrainian people and organising aid for refugees.

      I don't think there has been major violent attacks on civilian Russian targets abroad yet. But we're getting closer to it the more hate and Russophobia the propaganda machine churns out. At some point stochastic terrorism will happen.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        I'm going to anticipate attacks on Russian people and orthodox churches are going to be something mainly in Europe where people might have a better idea of how to even identify Russians That's going to fucking suck and I'm pessimistic about it since I know some countries are already getting into racist panics because they're accepting refugees.

        Here in the states the most likely to violently attack someone out of xenophobia would be our chuds, except half of them love Putin and the other half think Gorbachev is still president. I doubt either of them could identify the Russian language from hearing it except maybe some of the smarter fascists.

      • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        The Russian orthodox church in Copenhagen was graffitied with Z-symbols despite having expressed sympathy for the suffering of the Ukrainian people and organising aid for refugees.

        It was vandalized because they expressed sympathy for Ukraine. Nazis and Russian nationalists in Europe are unironically using the Z symbol to show support for the Russian army.

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

      Orthodox churches getting vandalized.

      This has been happening, although mostly in Canada. Probably because that's where a lot of Ukrainian Nazis went after they lost WW2.

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

          Orthodox churches often have Greek or Russian in the name. I doubt most Canadians are aware that Ukrainians will still go to a Russian Orthodox church. They just see Russian and want to do some petty vandalism,

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        I honestly thought it had been happening but had tried to be more optimistic. Goddammit I'm so tired.