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
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.