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.
We Should Say It. Russia is Fascist, by Timothy Snyder
Sounds like Professor Snyder needs @Thomas_Dankara to reeducate him.
OH MY GOD, THE PRESS REPORTED THE NEWS? LITERALLY 1984.
Smartest liberal.
I thought I recognized that name and yeah, this guy's whole project as a "historian" is to minimize Nazi crimes by casting them as nothing out of the ordinary compared to what the Soviets did, and all just part of a single system of violence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands
the worst kinds of anticommunist lib academics eat this shit up - here's a review of his book from Anne Applebaum that's revealing:
"Snyder's original contribution is to treat all of these episodes—the Ukrainian famine, the Holocaust, Stalin's mass executions, the planned starvation of Soviet POWs, postwar ethnic cleansing—as different facets of the same phenomenon. Instead of studying Nazi atrocities or Soviet atrocities separately, as many others have done, he looks at them together. Yet Snyder does not exactly compare the two systems either. His intention, rather, is to show that the two systems committed the same kinds of crimes at the same times and in the same places, that they aided and abetted one another, and above all that their interaction with one another led to more mass killing than either might have carried out alone."
Yeah he totally doesn't compare them, just says they were basically, qualitatively the same and that Nazism and communism are symbiotic and lead to the same results
And it's worth noting that probably the foremost historian on Nazi Germany, despite also being quite lib, finds his methodology and understanding of both Nazism and the Soviet Union under Stalin to be shit:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n21/richard-j.-evans/who-remembers-the-poles
lmao
Broke: The Banality of Evil
Woke: The Cruelty is the Point
Never believe evil doesn’t know what it’s doing
Yikes. Thanks for the context. I remember his name popping up all the time after Trump was elected, I guess to coincide with the publication of On Tyranny, but haven't read anything of his other than this stupid op-ed. Thanks for Evans's review, too. I'll read that now.
Never have I ever heard a liberal talk about what went before the German-Soviet pact of non-agression. Not a word about how the British blocked any attempts at an anti-Hitler pact, that effort might as well never have happened if you are to believe western historiography. Not a word about how the western imperialist nations carved up Czechoslovakia and gave the parts to Germany and Poland in the Chamberlain-Hitler pact.
Nor do they ever say a word about what happened afterwards, not a word about how the USSR fought the hardest and made the greatest sacrifices to rid the world of fascism.
It's all Russia Bad, Communism Bad and nothing else with that lot.
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SOMEBODY TELL THE FUCKING CZECH IT WASN'T THE ANGLO-FRENCH'S FAULT!
:agony-shivering:
Churchil on the Munich Agreement.
lol