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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.

  • summerbl1nd [none/use name]
    ·
    3 years ago

    there's a decent amount of nostalgic good-will for the soviet union under stalin in china, you can see it most obviously in nationalist circles like earlier episodes of year hare affair.

    khrushchev ruined everything though. the narrative is that he was basically trying to IMF the chinese by refusing to complete technology transfers started under stalin (and by installing permanent soviet technological 'advisor' positions in china) so as to lock them out of higher value production processes and turn china into a giant banana republic for the soviet union. maintaining what was already transferred during/after the sino-soviet split was a big factor in the whole 'gommunist chyna 100 million dead' under mao, as the economy was still largely agrarian and so a disproportionate amount of production (read: grain) had to be appropriated and turned into capital (sold) to support the more capital intensive higher value processes.

    this is where the socialist imperialist accusations come from, corn boy was kinda an asshole.

    on a side note, the positions have sort of reversed as of the present and i really hope the current chinese leaders learn from history and don't try anything quite so fucking cringe as what corn boy pulled.