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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]
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    2 years ago

    Russian state propaganda:

    France limits water usage RT

    A severe drought has prompted 24 out 96 departments of France to impose limits on water usage, the country’s Ministry of Ecological Transition said on Saturday.

    Global food crisis may spread from grain to sugar RT

    Sugar prices are expected to soar due to the export restrictions imposed by a number of key producing nations seeking to tame rising domestic food prices.

    US general insists he is ‘apolitical’ RT

    Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley stressed the idea that the military must be apolitical during a speech at Princeton University and in a subsequent interview with Fox News on Friday, glossing over criticism that he has been anything but during his tenure in the cabinets of President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump. “You’re not taking an oath to a dictator or wannabe dictator, or tyrant… you’re taking an oath to the Constitution of the United States of America,” Milley said at Princeton University’s ROTC Class of 2022 ceremony.

    Former Soviet state considers letting NATO blow up WWII memorial RT

    The Riga authorities are weighing different – including the most extreme – options to demolish a World War II monument in the city, the Latvian capital’s vice mayor, Vilnis Kirsis, said on Friday. Asked by local media whether the city council was considering the idea of letting “NATO troops, our military” blow up the monument, Kirsis confirmed that the option was not off the table.

    The memorial also became the centerpiece of a controversy around this year’s May 9 celebrations. The Latvian authorities declared the date – when Victory Day is celebrated in Russia and a number of other countries – a day of mourning for those killed or injured in Ukraine. The move prompted thousands of people to defy the ban on commemorating the Soviet victory and come to the monument to lay flowers, which were bulldozed away shortly thereafter. However, people returned to the site with even more flowers the next day.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Our empathy for human suffering is determined by to two factors: Who are suffering and who are responsible for the suffering.

          Russians in Latvia are a dehumanised minority, associated with our official enemy and the nationalist Latvian state oppressing them is le epic underdog hero who stands up to ebil Russia. There is no chance in hell westoids are going to give a single fuck about what happens to them.

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          A third of the Latvian population are Russian-speakers. They have previously been denied basic rights like citizenship and if you are concerned about the fate of minorities you should be really worried about what will happen to them now that Russophobia has been mainstreamed in the west.

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Get ready for Latvian de-nazification lol

        Keep blowing up Soviet statues Latvia, I fucking dare you

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Exactly how would the denazification of Latvia work? If Russia intervenes and stops the nazis, then we have a Russia-NATO war, a war with very high risk of ending organised human civilization.