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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can, thank you.

Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)

Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Yesterday's discussion post.

  • baguettePants [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Their brains have been completely broken. I don't think even the CIA hoped to achieve such levels of manufactured consent. Anyway, one lib I was discussing with is constantly trying to whitewash Azov neo-Nazis as "not really neo-Nazis", the other one says Azov war crimes are understandable, third one claims there aren't actually any evidence of Azov war crimes, the fourth one is going with "the Jewish president", the fifth one is just blaming literally every war crime on Russians while claiming he is very unbiased...it's a shit show.

    I did, however, notice already, a certain decrease in a level of interest for Ukrainian war, which is surprising to me, given the absolutely incredible aggressiveness and "intensity" of lib takes during previous 2 months.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      This is spot on.

      Obviously there's always been a lot of propaganda in media and a geo-political void in education and understanding, but it's gotten so much worse in the last 10-15 years.

      Part of it is that media outlets have largely given up on the idea of journalism between the increased pressures of state intimidation and increasingly competative profit motive. Whether because it suits their new owners or just to survive, most news organisations overwhelmingly write and promote editorial opinion. On the ground reporting and legacy experts have dwindled to almost nothing, while commitariat whose only job is to rope in potential echo chamber inductees have exploded. And when they're not contributers who need big numbers from controversy or hyper-targeted advertising markets, they and their articles are usually paid or subsidised by think tanks or organisations like the Gates Foundation.