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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.


  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    The elephant in the room is Yemen, with approximately 400,000 deaths and counting, and no talk of sanctioning Saudi or the US.

    • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      No talk of sanctioning the Saudi Arabia or the US is a generous assessment of the discourse. I don't think most people know that there is anything going on there, if they even know of the place at all; they sure as hell don't know we're currently helping invade, blockade, and starve a whole country.

      Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen... there really are quite a lot of elephants.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      The genocide in Yemen will be the model for neoliberal response to climate change going forward.

      Far from sanctions, they're using this as the model