Links and Stuff
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.
Police in Berlin have banned a gathering in memory of Shireen Abu Akleh, claiming it posed a risk of anti-Semitism.
It was organised by a Jewish group.
Stay classy Germany
lol deranged liberals have found DSA post about Sweden and NATO and are going absolutely wild over it
https://twitter.com/dsa_intl_comm/status/1525120090575884296
https://twitter.com/dsa_intl_comm/status/1525120090575884296
As a Swede I feel so honored that American twitter users are standing up for my right to be forced to fight their proxy war.
lmfao according to liberals, dsa did an imperialism by supporting swedish socialists not joining nato
https://twitter.com/sam_d_1995/status/1525530130042470401
The people of my country are being used as props in twitter neolib-posting. Like, they give 0 shit about us, only the interests of the US empire. Not a big fan!
they're fighting for your right of self determination of being able to join in on doing NATO imperialist war crimes
Ukraine is going to stage “Springtime for Bandera” and it will sweep Eurovision.
Springtime for Azov and Bandera!
Winter for Russians and Jews.
Guns flowing from the west through Lviv
Look out here comes the Ghost of Kiev!
Deals with the CIA we have made…
Look out, here comes some leeeethal aid
I was born in kiev, and that is why they call me steve
Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the azov batti
British Police Have Disturbingly Deceived Many Activists Into Romantic Relationships.
Here's the TrueAnon eps STT mentioned
https://www.patreon.com/posts/44747020
https://www.patreon.com/posts/51826362
If you wrote up a list of all the evil things you could think of there's very little that British intelligence and security forces haven't done.
This has been going on a long time. I read an article about an woman who had a kid with a guy and then he just disappeared. (I think it was in the 70's.) They immigrated Australia. The mom died never knowing what happened to him. The kid eventually found him though a DNA website and he had a whole other family that had no idea.
At this point I think Macron can basically say whatever he wants. Even if his party doesn't win the parliamentary elections which it probably will, the French president has very strong powers regarding foreign policy.
The German coalition government on the other hand has a much more difficult line to walk given its varying interests. The greens in particular seem to be rabid Atlanticists.
It’s May 14th 2022 and Margaret Thatcher is still dead :gaddafi-happy:
Summer of Rage? I'm hoping more of a Summer of Civility! When fundamental human rights are stripped away from you, that's not fair, sure, but responding violently to that makes them even worse than them! Peaceful protest is the only way to change society, such as... that time when... uhh...
Ghandi and MLK and Nelson Mandela, three guys famous for winning without violence.
revolutionaries are stripped of their revolutionary energy, marx quote, etc
Wait so people actualy believed the story about the bridge crossing? I didn't bother looking into it because by the time I saw people commenting I just assumed it was whatever.
But I decided to look at the DPA video because Alexander Mercouris decided to go back on the story on his update today. I thought it was unusual. Straight up lying about destroyed vehicles that look intact. Realy all the tanks are just parked along the road, what is the big deal?. The actual picture of the bridge has like maybe 4-5 actually destroyed vehicles and they were claiming 70+?
First the failed invasion of the shitty island that doesn't matter because the west was desperate to make Putin's victory day a thing instead it was a routine celebration he didn't say anything(of course Parenti quote here).
Now maybe half a dozen vehicles destroyed is being multiplied x10 to claim some sort of victory again?
And DPA guy summed up my attitude as well like Russia is launching hundreds of missile strikes per week. I don't even bother looking at those reports anymore. Both sides are claiming thousands of vehicles destroyed despite only Russia providing reasonable evidence for it.
But despite all of this they are still capturing more territory in the eastwhile the US/NATO is doing an Afghanistan/Iraq speedrun who knows they'll probably reach 1 trillion USD by the 12 month mark.
Wait so people actualy believed the story about the bridge crossing? I didn’t bother looking into it because by the time I saw people commenting I just assumed it was whatever.
I'm personally in a position where I like, want to believe Ukraine's points - possibly because the grinding weight of looking at every mainstream source and seeing the perspectives allowed to be reported by, well, US state propaganda, in the form of CNN and NBC and Bloomberg and so on; the range is between "Ukraine is winning really fucking hard" and "Ukraine is in a heroic stalemate" and literally nothing else - so some part of my brain is just going "well there must be SOMETHING there, Ukraine must be doing SOME kind of strategic movement that could potentially hypothetically be perceived as moving towards a wider goal of repelling Russia." But it's slowly being turned off as fake news reports come in over time, to the point where I saw the river crossing story and just went "fool me twenty times, shame on me, I won't believe it the twenty-first time." and didn't even really bother posting the articles, I just mentioned it offhand, and lo and behold, it was exaggerated.
Like, the entire media understanding of this war is constructed based on a specific set of lies and exaggerations gathered from a carefully curated set of points that every media site is allowed to see, and all of that misinformation is built on the flimsy foundation of their incredibly poor understanding of what war actually looks like when you're not bombing innocent civilians in the desert with truly astounding amounts of airpower that is virtually uncounterable due to the technological disparity. Their brains, and the brains of almost the entire western population (and to be honest, even a fair proportion of genuine communists who probably should know better! And I'm including myself in the first month or so among that crowd!) have been utterly poisoned by America's wars and so they see a war that's gone on for less than 3 months(!) and think it's an agonizingly slow crawl. This warfare is much closer to something in the beginning of the 20th century than like, Iraq, or even Vietnam.
Like, imagine if you transported the average redditor or whatever back to WW2 and he saw the battle plans of the western allies or the USSR! "Haha, get cucked idiot incompetent Russians, le cauldron is expected to take four months to form? Just admit you're losing already! Your river crossing at this specific location just failed? Guess the Nazis are winning again!" It's not even seeing the trees rather than the forest, it's seeing the leaves rather than the tree.
“well there must be SOMETHING there, Ukraine must be doing SOME kind of strategic movement that could potentially hypothetically be perceived as moving towards a wider goal of repelling Russia.”
This is what confuses me. Even a simple "we blew up a bridge and 70 tanks" turns out to be "we stopped a pontoon bridge at a specific spot and wrecked a few tanks" and that is what they report on. That is their biggest success? They correctly identified one potential crossing and managed to hit it at the right time. Its like the western media is cheering on a little league team who got to first base for the first time in half the season.
"I believe in the workplace environment" says man who lives where he works.
Macron suggested Ukraine
make a giant pizzato allowinsects to rain from the skysaysBullwinkle.See? I can play mad libs too.
this story is the new best reason to be vegan, so you avoid the spectre of cheese and get to keep working from home
Hmm. Are you sure it's not actually a reason to load our boy Boris up with lots and lots and lots of cheese?
So, Ukraine won Eurovision. By a pretty large margin, in fact.
How much of that is due to the war? Not saying that Ukraine’s entry was bad, just that Norway had a fucking banger and It would have been funny if the next Eurovision took place in Australia (also, “Not the Same” is a pretty good song).
Bastard Youtube tried to tell me I couldn't watch it "in my country". Good thing VPNs aren't illegal yet.
Azov battalion is still there, so the rumors are still rumors, but it seems very likely that there are some NATO officials there. So far, Azov's spokesperson in his videos and on twitter has asked Pope Francis, Elon Musk, Turkey, and even China for an "extraction" to a third country. Russia's position is the same: come out unarmed or don't.
or don’t.
Preferable outcome to be honest. Although the information that these people have might be valuable and you might be able to convince some to give up details about crimes of the others.
It'd be good propaganda for Russia to put all these guys in front of a camera nd play connect the dots with the swastika tattoos.
Well that's exactly what I think the whole krefuffle is all about. Azov battalion knows too much, they've become toxic to Zelensky as the result, and Russia would actually very much like them alive for the potential intel. And trials.
So they really gave the Eurovision win to Ukraine, looking forward to that broadcast from Azovstal next year
I can’t help but find it hilarious that the shitty-off-brand-Black-Eyed-Peas will be the public face of a regional TV network for a full year.
The Ukrainians gave a call to action to help Azovstal at the end of their performance. The hosts proceeded to not hand them a mic for as long as possible.
That's not in the Ukraine anymore and it's not going to be next year either.
