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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.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
    ·
    2 years ago

    The cryptofash(very light emphasis on crypto) party in Sweden is suggesting that the department that handles prisons and jails be renamed, I'm struggling to translate it perfectly but basically the current name is phrased in a way that suggests the purpose of the department is to take care of and "treat" criminals in the way that healthcare treats patients, "criminal-care" or "crimecare" basically in a literal translation.

    Well the cryptofascists think this is liberal coddling and bullshit(note that in all modern history the phrasing of the department name has included the word that translates to "care" even if it started as prisoner-care) and instead thinks the department should be renamed as to focus on the punishment part, basically wanting it named the office of punishment, or "punishment-works" in the same way you have steelworks or steel mills. Extremely cool things going on in Sweden.

    Also the "moderate" controlled public transit in Stockholm have loosened restrictions on advertising to the point where the cryptofascist party has painted trains on the subway with their color scheme for 2 weeks, including text that says "Welcome aboard the victory train!" and "SD 2022" and party figures have tweeted out shit like "Welcome to the return migration train, you have a one way ticket, next stop, Kabul!". Very cool.