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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  • Kanna [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I haven't checked in for a while because the majority of the world buying into the Pro-Ukraine propaganda so fast was too infuriating... not to mention the horribly racist comments everywhere. I'm going to start tuning back into what's happening, but I'm really baffled by such this universal response. It's like someone flipped a switch and everyone fell in line

      • Kanna [she/her]
        ·
        2 years ago

        I guess I'm just a bit naive when it comes to this, but the speed of the response was shocking

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Your average boomer, millenial and zoomer has grown up in a petri dish full of anti Russian propaganda. From movies, books and video games. All the west needed to do was turn on the latent programming MK ULTRA style

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
            ·
            2 years ago

            Everyone surprised by this is showing their age. The exact same thing happened with Iraq. Twice.

          • SoyViking [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Russians in movies are always criminals of one kind or another, or occasionally they are le brave liberal dissident fleeing other russians. Everything in Russia is always worn down and grey. The weather is always bad.

        • s0ykaf [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          ever since the bolivian coup i've been paying attention to these episodes and honestly it's always like this when the imperial machine starts churning: a barrage of propaganda, from the most ridiculous shit to the very plausible, and people are completely taken in

          for a while, whatever the empire is targeting becomes the major topic of conversation, for every single western drone, and comments like "you know, i've never been supportive of/against X, but this time it just has to be done!" become very common

          western people (and 3rd worlders who aren't protected against this) will give up on every value they thought they had just so they can go along with the hegemonic narrative, just so they won't feel like they're wrong, or out of the norm

          a while after that, especially after the empire achieves its objectives (or fails to do so, which is slowly starting to be the case more often than not), the machine slows down, and everyone forgets whatever that previously extremely important subject was, just waiting for the media to tell them what's important and wrong once again

          it's fucking horrifying

          • lascaux [he/him]
            ·
            2 years ago

            i was reading the wikivoyage page on cuba yesterday and they had a big banner at the top warning about how the protests last summer had "died down" but tensions were still present and to be careful bc of the "extremely heavy-handed" cuban police. probably no one has bothered to get rid of it because wikivoyage is kind of dead but it reminded me of that insufferable week and the insane media push that had everyone repeating their lines. i had honestly mostly forgotten about it because the protests petered out so quick but that was a great example of what you are talking about. the media decides to tell everyone who the bad guy is this month and everyone passively absorbs and accepts it and then moves on as soon as it's time for the new thing. bolivia, venezuela, cuba, north korea, afghanistan. this one will probably last a bit longer because of the refugees and the fact that it's a full on war but even if it is still ongoing i bet no one will give a shit about it in 2 or 3 months now that the fighting seems like it will be mostly contained to the Donbass from here on out.

          • Kanna [she/her]
            ·
            2 years ago

            Ahh right I hadn't even considered that tbh. That makes sense

    • VladPoutine [love/loves]
      ·
      2 years ago

      If you said Ukraine was full of nazis then Amerikkkans would support them even harder

      • eddies [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        You don’t understand, they’re OUR nazis :so-true:

    • AverageUlyanovFan [any]
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      2 years ago

      This is narrative slavery at its finest. People are already primed to believe Ukraine good and Russia bad, so they'll believe anything that already fits into that narrative with ease while changing it becomes extremely hard. Combine that with constant appeal to emotion to shut off the brain and atomization so there's not many people one would listen to with respect, and you get a slave that'll willfully spread your agenda while taking pride in doing so for free

    • MaeBorowski [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I had to just check out for a while for the same reason. It was making me feel constantly angry with the only 2 people I talk to irl and how they thought I was naive for "believing Russian propaganda." :agony-deep:

      But now I'm regretting how ive stopped paying attention because I don't know what's going on anymore.

      It sucks having to weigh your mental health and your only social interactions against being informed and understanding what's happening in the world.

        • MaeBorowski [she/her]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Agreed. Of course I meant knowing what narratives are being pushed or even if there's any consensus on what the "current events" are.