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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.

  • JamesGoblin [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    CBAed to doublecheck every point, anyway:

    Libya under Gaddafi's 'dictatorship';

    1. Libya had no electricity bills, electricity was free for all its citizens.
    2. There was no interest rate on loans, banks were state-owned, and loans for citizens were 0% by law.
    3. Gaddafi promised that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had one. Gaddafi's father died in a tent.
    4. All newlyweds in Libya received 60,000 dinars from the government for buying their own apartment and starting a family.
    5. Education and medical treatment in Libya were free. Before Gaddafi, only 25% of the population knew how to write, under his leadership - 83%.
    6. If the Libyans wanted to live on a farm, they received a free house, equipment, seeds & livestock.
    7. If you could not be treated in Libya, the government gave you treatment abroad & $2300 for accommodation and travel.
    8. If a Libyan bought a car, government funded 50% of the cost.
    9. Libya had no external debt, its reserves amounted to $150 billion.
    10. A mother who gave birth received $5,000. https://t.me/EurasianChoice/15115
    • SoyViking [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Yes. But they didn't have rules-based librul democracy so therefore destroying all of those things by bombing them in order to give it to them was actually a good thing.

      • plov_mix [comrade/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Exactly! We have to uphold the rules-based world order by BREAKING THE RULES of international law. I know it’s contradictory and to the average person’s eyes it’s morally repulsive, which is why takes guts to do it! And Obama did it! He made the tough choices! He knew bombing Libya wasn’t about politics!

        • SoyViking [he/him]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Rules-based doesn't just mean any rule out there. It means the good rules, sensible, just and democratic rules, the kind of rules made in Washington.

    • amyra [she/her]
      ·
      2 years ago

      I will never forgive the west for what they did to Libya :sadness-abysmal:

    • RedHelhest [they/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Probably mostly taken from this Parenti post https://i.imgur.com/Mn0FFrU.png