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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.

  • CoralMarks [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    The Europe 1 report said the French military might be reluctant to provide a greater number of howitzers, considering it only had 76 of these weapons that were operational before the first shipment to Ukraine. It takes about one year to produce a new CAESAR weapon system, it said.

    One year to produce a single howitzer. :farquaad-point:

      • D61 [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        I felt this comment in my soul.

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      I'm seriously having trouble figuring out how much of this stuff is the West showing that it's incapable of the production necessary to sustain a peer war versus how much is them just leaving UA out to dry with excuses.

      • GriddlePill [none/use name]
        ·
        2 years ago

        We have any idea how long it takes peer forces to produce their equivalent systems? Not trying to be a dick, I’m just a nerd for military hardware.

    • GriddlePill [none/use name]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Modern howitzers are super complex. Like, I totally get how ridiculous the graft and corruption is in the MIC, but I’ve had the chance to tour a production facility for simply upgrading old amphibious APC’s and it’s mind-boggling how complicated something as seemingly simple as a turret-less tank with a snorkel can be.

      Also the electronics are probably a major holdup given that the chip crisis is now chip crises.

      My question is mainly if they can only do one per year which what the probably poor phrasing comes off as. And if so, why?

      • SoyViking [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        My question is mainly if they can only do one per year which what the probably poor phrasing comes off as.

        It's probably more like they can do more than one at a time, but they will have to wait a year before they can pick up the keys to their brand-new howitzers.

        BTW is "new howitzer smell" a thing or do they just use the same they use for cars?

        • GriddlePill [none/use name]
          ·
          2 years ago

          ….stop awakening new fetishes. Gunpowder is erotic enough /s :amerikkka-clap:

          And yeah your comment aligns with my assumptions, but for all I know they only have one production line because they never thought it would be an issue. France famously considers nukes to be the only peer defense necessary. “France shall have its borders even if it’s the last map humanity draws” and all that.