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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.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    U.S. Officials Warn of New Nightmare as Putin Hits Peak Desperation

    Again, the media is a broken record and it reads exactly like you expect it would, to the point where I'm not even sure why I bother skimming them anymore, but this paragraph was worth the effort.

    The pomp and circumstance could include the twisted plan to present 500 Ukrainian prisoners of war during a parade to show Russia’s military might in comparison to Ukraine’s, according to a report from Russian human rights project “Gulagu.net.” Putin is also reportedly considering holding sham trials of Ukrainians that Russia has claimed have been supportive of Nazis, in an imitation of the Nuremberg trials that worked to hold German Nazi leadership accountable.

    Yeah, if there's one thing that the Nuremberg trials did, it was "hold German Nazi leadership accountable". Not, like, punish or anything, but wow, they sure got a good telling-off. Anyway, I'm gonna make my own site, thinking of calling it giantspoon dot org.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Literally every article and news report for weeks is just "Putin is (might be) going to do this insane thing. No we don't have any sources". What's next, shark tanks, death rays, blowing up the moon to rain it down on Kiev?

        • Hoodoo [love/loves]
          ·
          3 years ago

          Its a false premise.

          The Ukranian army vastly increased artillery shelling on the breakaway republics the longer Russia refused to invade.

          Literally increasing exponentially day by day. Predicting invasion while doing everything to provoke it and escalating isn't anything impressive.

          • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
            ·
            3 years ago

            I would say at this point it's fairly obvious the news was clued in that Ukraine fully intended to escalate attacks on civilians until Russia felt the need to intervene.

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Up next Putin suspends Zelensky and his wholesome Azov bodyguard above a section of the Amazon which is teaming with the dreaded Candiru, a naughty little fish with a penchant for swimming up a man's urethra, to feed on the damaged tissue of the pitiful mass of flesh you once called your PENIS!