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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.


Last week's discussion post.


  • Redcuban1959 [any]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Lula is up four points in a week according to a new poll out today, on the eve of Brazil's official campaign season launch.

    Lula: 45%

    Bolsonaro: 34%

    Lula tied, in the margin of error, with the sum of all other candidates (45% to 46%), which could guarantee his victory in the first round. The result reverses the trend towards Bolsonaro, who had been showing growth in recent polls.

    I know he's a socdem, but i hope he wins :lula-bars:

    • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      At least he will pivot away from America economically, militarily and diplomatically and towards China

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 years ago

      He's at least the best kind of socdem - one that isn't tied to America or has particularly pro-American attitudes. Just about the only positive thing you can say about Bolsonaro is that he had enough of a spine to not be crushed by America's appeal for everybody to hate Russia. Lula seems to also have that positive.

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

        the only positive thing you can say about Bolsonaro

        I will say that him catching Covid more than any person alive and having his poop backed up all the way to his nose was very funny.

      • Redcuban1959 [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        He's a lot like AMLO with foreign relations, both support AES and left-leaning states while being critical of the US and their Allies.