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 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
( the institute for understanding war link being a neocon American exceptionalism plaything from the kagan family)
Resource for unedited RusFed/Ukraine press conferences/speeches
https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCo-P9gyWGjOkdquRBt0zowQ/videos
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
Previous megathreads
!news@hexbear.net RSS Feed https://hexbear.net/feeds/c/news.xml
Am I wrong in thinking that the goal of the West re RU is to prevent it from ever becoming a prosperous, fully-functional nation? There is literally nothing RU could do to get fair treatment and be welcomed into the fold.
A lesson was learned from China's rise. A strong, healthy Russia must be the thing of nightmares for the cold warrior set. The West still holds a grudge over 1917.
The US certainly isn't going to tolerate another nation having an abundance of natural resources unless it can exploit or control them. Hell, look how they're moving to isolate and destabilize the EU and that's mostly just a trade bloc.
Layer on well over 100 years of anti-Russian sentiment, Empire dick measuring, and cold War brain worms it's hard to see how Russia could ever placate the US while remaining an independent power, never mind a superpower.
Right. How does Russia get out of this predicament? It's intolerable for them. They could wait for the west's decline. The MIC will be the last thing the West stops pouring money into though. Everything else could be shit but we'll be sure to make everyone suffer.
Probably by making much the same moves as it is now. I'm not saying they had to invade Ukraine, but their reaction to sanctions I suspect has mostly just sped up a process that was already in progress.
What's gonna stop the EU and US from arming, funding, and training Ukraine's military/fascists and other sounding states?
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Much along the lines of what I imagine too. The issue is the US which would rather see a nuclear apocalypse before stepping from the podium. I suspect the only way it'll happen is if the US as we know it collapses from the inside - balkanization, civil war etc - meaning it can't focus all of its ire on the rest of the world.
It might just be that US interest was in keeping the european nations as auxiliaries to their empire, they'd rather grow weaker as a block than to lose their absolute authority, in fact this is something that's good for them, which means that the USA would have no problems propping up pro-NATO/pro-US governments and potentially couping governments and stealing from those countries. Things that happened in the 3rd world might just come to the periphery of the west now, which limits what russia can do imo.
Do right-wing parties really want to ditch NATO, or is that just hot air? The Republicans sure don't.
Lots of far right parties are rabidly pro-American and pro-NATO
Yeah. And the U.S. can't do an Iraq on Russia, because it has nuclear weapons. So options are more limited. :-/
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Considering the fact that the revolution in 1917 was so scary for capitalist powers that they made sedition laws immediately to prevent it from happening in their own countries, I would say that western powers have never trusted what they see and call a “backwards nation”
Nah, just colonies shouldn’t get rich, or the price of labor would be too high. Russia functions ideally for the west, sells resources, transfers money to the west
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