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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.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Time to transpose myself into a liberal's mindset...

    Why would Russia do that? A genocide takes hatred between ethnic groups and such hatred towards Ukrainians doesn’t seem to materialise. Russia has nasty nationalists but their take seems to be that Ukrainians are in fact Russians, ie. not another ethnicity to eradicate.

    Because Putin is an evil and insane dictator, and can change the national policy to exclude Ukrainians at any point.

    If Russia hated Ukrainias so much, why has Ukrainian been an official minority language of the Russian Federation since Soviet times?

    Uh, being officially allowed to say Hello in Ukrainian doesn't mean they aren't oppressed!

    Why haven’t Russia done it yet? Even if you accept the official Ukrainian story about Bucha, there have been no other Buchas, despite Russia having ample opportunity to kill civilians if they wanted to. Russia has occupied large areas with huge Ukrainian populations and not even the Kiev government has claimed that there are widespread massacres or similar attempts of genocide.

    They simply don't know about them, and are putting all the civilians in mass graves and through mobile crematoriums before Ukraine can tell.

    When Russia incorporated Crimea in 2014 there was no attempt at a genocide. Life went on, just with Russian authorities instead of Ukrainians.

    Yet! And, for all we know, this is like the Ughyur genocide where China is blah blah blah

    If Russia wants to genocide Ukrainians why haven’t they carpet bombed Ukrainian cities? That would kill a lot of civilians as well as militants. They have the planes and the missiles and the bombs to do it.

    Ukrainian anti-air is just too good - you actually believe that they have ""air superiority""? I read an article that Ukraine has more planes now than when they started the war, so they can just fight back!

    Oh god, that was a horrific experience.