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 the above list 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/

Others:

http://thesaker.is/. (Right wing pro Russian , little unhinged about covid , but interesting war analysis, gets quoted by naked capitalism )

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates

Twitter military updaters:

https://nitter.42l.fr/RWApodcast

https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary :kitty-cri:

https://nitter.42l.fr/ArmchairW

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

Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413

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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  • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Propaganda! I just made another post annoyed about this, but all it took was a couple Russian war crimes to spin the entire enterprise as an exterminationist adventure

    • lascaux [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      yep. i think it's also a way (both consciously and unconsciously) to launder american war crimes. sure, we have spent two decades blowing up hospitals and wedding parties in the middle east, but at least we aren't doing GENOCIDE like putler!

      • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        100%. Literally identical circumstances, the bombing of a hospital, are used as proof of barbarity when pointed at Putin, but completely overlooked when the hegemon is doing it

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          Here is a direct comparison between two different news articles depicting similar attacks that the US and Russia did. Note the differences in language.

          US bombs Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz, killing 42 people:

          CNN: Civilians 'accidentally struck' in Afghan hospital bombing, U.S. commander says

          An airstrike was then called to eliminate the Taliban threat, and several innocent civilians were accidentally struck

          "There is no country in the world and no military in the world that goes to greater lengths and places a higher premium on avoiding civilian casualties than the United States Department of Defense,"

          CNN: Pentagon: U.S. bombing of Afghanistan hospital not a 'war crime'

          The Pentagon announced Friday that 16 military personnel will be disciplined for the deadly U.S. strike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in October, but maintained that it was not a war crime because it resulted from unintentional human error and equipment failure.

          He also said that the aircrew were "unaware" that they were firing on a hospital.

          "This was an extreme situation we were dealing with,"

          The Pentagon concluded last year that Doctors Without Borders had followed all proper procedures in notifying the U.S. of the location of the hospital. The group "did everything right," a U.S. official said in October.

          Russia strikes a hospital in Mariupol, killing 5(?) people:

          CNN: Anatomy of the Mariupol hospital attack

          Medical facilities and workers have been repeatedly hit by Russian forces since their invasion of Ukraine, despite this being against the rules of war.

          “Every single attack deprives people of life-saving services.”

          Footage circulating on social media showed pregnant women being escorted out of a bombed-out building amid charred cars, broken tree branches and debris.

          Russian officials claimed the hospital was a justifiable military target, based on their unproven assertion that Ukrainian military targets were on site and that all patients and medical staff had left.

          As these stories of suffering emerged, Russian officials threw doubt on their validity in news programs and online.

          US Vice President Kamala Harris described the attack as “unprovoked” and “unjustified.”

          CTV: Airstrike hits Ukraine maternity hospital, 17 reported hurt

          A Russian airstrike devastated a maternity hospital Wednesday in the besieged port city of Mariupol amid growing warnings from the West that Moscow’s invasion is about to take a more brutal and indiscriminate turn.

          “Today Russia committed a huge crime,” said Volodymir Nikulin, a top regional police official, standing in the ruins. “It is a war crime without any justification.”

          “A children’s hospital. A maternity hospital. How did they threaten the Russian Federation?” Zelensky asked in his nightly video address, switching to Russian to express his horror at the airstrike. “What kind of country is this, the Russian Federation, which is afraid of hospitals, afraid of maternity hospitals, and destroys them?”

          U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken condemned Russia's “unconscionable attacks”

    • SupFBI [comrade/them]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Everything our "enemies" (competitors) do is a crime. Demanding swift and painful action by the virtuous West.

      Everything we do is good. Mistakes are sometimes made but we mean well. Except for when the crimes are against the enemy du jour. They deserved it.

    • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      My dad who is normally fairly good with understanding current events described the war as “horrific - smashing the country to bits for the hell of it, it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before”. It’s amazing how effective the media has been at erasing any geopolitical explanation for the war and ensuring that people only hear “evil Russia doing a bloodsport adventurism”. Especially as my dad has in the past vilified the press for their bias against Corbyn, etc., and how pro-Tory they are.

      My parents didn’t like me pointing out that Iraq was far worse, naturally.

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        “horrific - smashing the country to bits for the hell of it, it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before”.

        ...as you say, Iraq, but also Vietnam and Korea, and probably others I'm forgetting. Imperial Japan I guess but that's a little more iffy due to the whole WW2 zeitgeist, unless you're talking about the nuclear bombs being dropped on them, which was unjustifiable

        • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Panama….the list goes on and on. The reaction to bringing such things up is one of “two wrongs don’t make a right”, which is my exact point - but somehow it’s interpreted as a pro-Putin view! Any attempt to contextualize the imperial actions of Russia against the recent past of Western imperialism is only seen as defence of Russia. This is perhaps the most maddening effect of the media coverage - that it is not morally permissible to seek understanding beyond “Russian mad man gone wild”. That one can’t discuss these things materially, in relation to (and as a cause of) Western imperial bloodlust.

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Not commenting on whether or not the russian atrocities are real or not, but it's irrelevant for the purposes of spin and media. All they need is a couple accusations to close the loop on the Hitler-Putin analogy