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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]
    ·
    3 years ago

    The Pentagon had their Ukraine flags upside down, lmao.

    MoA also refers to our boy Defence Politics Aaaaasia. Not much else there that I haven't already put in the updates, except:

    Veteran US statesman Henry Kissinger has urged the West to stop trying to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine, warning that it would have disastrous consequences for the long term stability of Europe.

    The former US secretary of state and architect of the Cold War rapprochement between the US and China told a gathering in Davos that it would be fatal for the West to get swept up in the mood of the moment and forget the proper place of Russia in the European balance of power.

    Dr Kissinger said the war must not be allowed to drag on for much longer, and came close to calling on the West to bully Ukraine into accepting negotiations on terms that fall very far short of its current war aims.

    He told the World Economic Forum that Russia had been an essential part of Europe for 400 years and had been the guarantor of the European balance of power structure at critical times. European leaders should not lose sight of the longer term relationship, and nor should they risk pushing Russia into a permanent alliance with China.

    Probably one of the most literal :heartbreaking:s I've ever seen. Apart from that last part, though - that ship has sailed.

    • Wertheimer [any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Henry Kissinger has been alive for ten times longer than the average person has been. He's well aware that empires rise and fall long-term.

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Henricus Kissinger Crassus, born in 450 BC, saw the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and has been changing names ever since, as he hid his phylactery containing his soul in a secret pyramid chamber built in Old Kingdom Egypt. He still has hundreds of years to live before his body finally fails him.

        • voice_of_hermes [he/him,any]
          ·
          3 years ago

          He still has hundreds of years to live before his body finally fails him.

          And just wait until he consumes the blood of enough infants for his next extension! Good thing it's not quite time yet....

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Kissinger is a monster but he's from a generation of ghouls that didn't get high on their own supply so he's a rational monster.