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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.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.

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.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
    ·
    3 years ago

    Russia is kind of a shithole in parts but a charming one that I liked.

    Sounds like America. There were parts of this country I've been to and hated and parts that were okay. Like I dispised being in Florida and north Carolina and yet enjoyed South Carolina paradoxically, in the same way I've been to Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Mexico, and the California deserts and only liked visiting the towns of flagstaff, roswell, some Nevada mountain ranch, and Tuscan.

    At least a lot of Russias similar in climate to my slice of the world so I'd feel more at home weather-wise

          • jackal [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            Super cool! The fully automated return of the boosters is the neatest part to me, it's like SpaceX but decades earlier. And about the pilots, I wonder if that worked both ways, that the US government also needed/wanted some individual heros they can rally behind. It's harder to market a faceless rocket to the public.

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

            The core rocket looked something like an elongated space shuttle,

            interesting :melon-musk:

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
        ·
        3 years ago

        Hey if I ever visit Russia, I'll try to go there and snap pics just for space nerds like you