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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.


  • comi [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Rate hike, let’s gooo :stonks-down:

    • TechnologyMoth [comrade/them,any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      fuck me, I thought it was smart starting a small stocks account for 5-10 years from now, with "safe stocks" but really I just pissed away a couple thousand dollars which is like a big chunk of money for me. I feel so fucking stupid.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        From what I understand, as long as the stock market doesn't suffer total existential failure, most safe stocks will survive and recover.

      • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        If you need the money shorty then that is trouble. But in the long term it does not matter too much when you bought

        • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Yeah that whole long-term thing works till it doesn't. And i think we are entering that phase of it's not going to work any more

          • RedDawn [he/him]
            ·
            2 years ago

            Right, like isn't Japan's stock market still lower now than it was before it crashed in the 90s or something?

            • CTHlurker [he/him]
              ·
              edit-2
              2 years ago

              Probably, but unless you live in a country that has been deliberately hamstrung by the US, then you're still more likely to get something out of a longterm investment in the Funny Line Go Up or Down machinery. Japan is sort of unique because they have been hamstrung by the US fucking with their currency, while also heavily financialising their economy.

              Also, Japan in the late 80's and early 90's had like the mother of all economic bubbles, with very little to back it up in terms of real assets. It also royally fucked up their property market if I recall correctly, but that is almost a guarantee when you depend so heavily on the financial sector.

      • comi [he/him]
        ·
        2 years ago

        You know old story about hoja nasreddin and donkey? :shrug-outta-hecks:

          • comi [he/him]
            ·
            2 years ago

            Tamerlane was looking for someone to teach his donkey to talk. Nobody wanted the job. Finally the wise men of the dunes - Hodja Nasreddin took the position and promised to teach the donkey to talk in 10 years time.

            • Are you crazy? his friends asked him.
            • Not really, Hodja answered, the money is good the job is not hard and in 10 years a lot might happen: I might die, or Tamerlane might die or surely enough this old donkey might die.