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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.

Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.

https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.

https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.

https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:

https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.

https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

Yesterday's discussion post.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    I'm sorry but this sentence

    Other grain stalwarts, like the U.S., are expecting better-than-expected yields that could make up for some of that.

    is throwing me into a rage.

    If they're expecting better-than-expected yields, aren't they then just expecting better yields? How can they expect things to be better than they expect? Isn't this some kind of spiraling paradox of expectations?

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Right, but my point is that after that update, you have reached a new baseline "Expectation."

        Your "Expectations" are not an immutable point; when you expect more, your expectation has changed.

        • jackal [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Could be time based expectations, for example "expectations at time 0" instead of now.

          • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
            ·
            2 years ago

            If this is the case, then isn't that important information that should have been included in the first place?

            "We are projected to exceed the expectations set by XXX-timed-event's-forecast" is (imo) substantially different from "expecting our expectations to be exceeded" if only because one has a stable point of reference, not the fluid benchmark of "what we expect(ed)."

            • jackal [he/him]
              ·
              2 years ago

              Well I'm not a farmer, but it could be a technical term. It makes sense for the farmer-brain and the bourgeois-brain to estimate how much you plan to harvest per input of seed, since it has implications for materials needed when harvest time comes and when :porky-happy: capitalization time comes. But I still agree with your point since that sentence sounds like me BSing a presentation.

    • jackal [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Actually, I have no idea where they get this "expecting better-than-expected yield". I found this document from the USDA published today, and the expected wheat production is actually down compared to last year. Am I missing something?

      Winter Wheat Production Up 1 Percent from May Forecast

      Winter wheat production is forecast at 1.18 billion bushels, up 1 percent from the May 1 forecast but down 7 percent from 2021. As of June 1, the United States yield is forecast at 48.2 bushels per acre, up 0.3 bushel from last month but down 2.0 bushels from last year’s average yield of 50.2 bushels per acre.

      Hard Red Winter production, at 582 million bushels, is down 1 percent from last month. Soft Red Winter, at 358 million bushels, is up 1 percent from the May forecast. White Winter, at 242 million bushels, is up 5 percent from last month. Of the White Winter production, 15.6 million bushels are Hard White and 226 million bushels are Soft White.

      https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/crop0622.pdf

      https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2022/05-12-2022.php

    • amber2 [she/her,they/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      "things don't look good, but we can imagine a scenario where things do look good a few months from now" has been the economy for the past 2 years lol