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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.

  • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    https://nitter.net/RWApodcast/status/1526583221059731458

    this is like that dress photo - absolutely melting my brain. Thoughts?

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

      After 70+ replies and looking at it some more I still can't tell so I will now assume that both videos are authentic & the tanks are still engaged in a match of tug-of-war

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Thousands of people are killing each other over the stupidest shit imaginable and people are arguing about tank tug of war. Absurdism is truly the only lens for examining our existence.

    • SpookyVanguard64 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      My first guess was that it's the Ukrainian tank towing the Russian tank, but honestly idk. The best way to tell would be to see which direction dust is being kicked up, but the video is too low res and too short to really tell anything definitively.

      However, someone in the replies did point out that whoever was filming this would be more likely to focus on the tank being towed rather than the one doing the towing, so I'm still leaning towards the T-90 being the one getting towed.

    • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Neither one makes sense :cat-confused:

      If the T-90 is towing, why is the driver buttoned when there's a dude just sitting on the T-80? And I think he's sitting on the opposite fender, but if he's actually sitting on the glacis he'd be massively in the way of any T-80 driver.

      If the T-80 is towing, why does the T-90 have its headlight on? But the T-80 has its marker lights on too?

      There looks to be dust between the tanks and on the T-80 side, but the video quality is too shit to really be sure. But since this video was released by Ukrainians, the video quality might have been intentionally degraded to hide that.

      Both videos look to be at double speed and half framerate for no good reason, but putting them both at half speed the image stabilization in the version with the T-90 towing looks much more natural. But it's hard to tell due to the missing frames.

    • amyra [she/her]
      ·
      3 years ago

      The camera shake from zooming looks weird on the vid with the Ukrainian tank towing. It immediately snaps to a "resting" position as opposed to slowly returning to it.