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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.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Here's a copypasta that break liberal's brains, use it wisely

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis

    Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat - Guardian 2014

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23745118.2016.1154646

    Far right participation in the Ukrainian Maidan protests: an attempt of systematic estimation

    https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jmss/article/view/58321

    Crowdsourced War: The Political and Military Implications of Ukraine’s Volunteer Battalions 2014-2015

    https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/UA/9thOHCHRreportUkraine.pdf#sthash.HFQs2pv2.dpuf

    A report by the OHCHR that was released on 2 March 2015 said that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies had engaged in a "pattern of enforced disappearances, secret detention and ill-treatment" of people suspected of "separatism" and "terrorism"

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/10/ukraine-azov-brigade-nazis-abuses-separatists/24664937/

    Volunteer Ukrainian unit includes Nazis - USA Today 2015

    https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Religion/Submissions/UKRAINE_Annex1.pdf

    This 2017 Human rights study directly refutes the take stated in the video about "low anti-Semitism" in Ukraine

    https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/report-anti-semitic-vandalism-spiked-in-ukraine-in-2014-402631

    Report: Anti-Semitic vandalism spiked in Ukraine in 2014 - Jerusalem Post, this study also refutes that disgusting Atlantic Council article pro-Ukraine supporters use to claim that there have been "no examples of anti-semitic violence in Ukraine during the last twenty years"

    https://neweasterneurope.eu/2020/10/16/jews-and-conspiracy-theories-antisemitism-enters-academia-in-ukraine/

    Jews and conspiracy theories: Antisemitism enters academia in Ukraine - "nearly 70 percent of Ukrainians agreeing that “Jews have too much power in the business world.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/18/six-years-20-billion-russian-investment-later-crimeans-are-happy-with-russian-annexation/

    The 2019 survey found that 82% of Crimea's population supported Crimea's accession to Russia, as opposed to 86% in 2014. The survey also found that 58% of Crimean Tatars now supported Crimea's accession to Russia, as opposed to 39% in 2014 - Washington Post

    • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I was curating a similar collection but I gave up. Let me see if I have any left.

      https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/hundreds-march-with-torches-in-tribute-to-nazi-collaborator-in-ukraine-654187 Hundreds march with torches in tribute to Nazi collaborator in Ukraine, Published: JANUARY 4, 2021, Jerusalem Post

      https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf OSCE report on War crimes of the armed forces and security forces of Ukraine by Foundation for Democracy, 15 April 2016

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY 1 Mar 2014 BBC Newsnight's Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the links between the new Ukrainian government and Neo-nazis

      https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-nexus-between-far-right-extremists-in-the-united-states-and-ukraine/ The Nexus Between Far-Right Extremists in the United States and Ukraine, West Point Military Academy, APRIL 2020,

      https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/820132?ln=en United Nations resolution "Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" only Ukraine Canada and the USA voted against it.

      https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/ Five years after the Maidan uprising, anti-Semitism and fascist-inflected ultranationalism are rampant, The Nation, FEBRUARY 22, 2019