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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Please add to this if you can.
Links
Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine
Leftist discussion threads:
https://hexbear.net/post/177324
https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/
Twitter military updaters:
https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary
https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet
https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518
Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413
Better war/propaganda analysis:
https://www.understandingwar.org
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
News updates:
https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html
Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html
YT/Video in Ukraine:
Thank you.
Previous megathreads:
Also another thing I’ve noticed, western media is trying to portray this as a huge failure for the Russian military because they haven’t simply walked into Ukraine. It took the US 3-weeks to defeat the Iraqi army and they invaded with 300,000 troops. Russia only has 30-40k troops right now. Iraq is 2/3 the size of Ukraine and far less densely populated. Ukraine also has the largest army in Europe and is fully supported with both arms and intelligence from every European state and the US. Also, compare the loss of civilian life in the first few days of Russia’s attack vs the Americans’ bloodthirsty bombing of Baghdad at the start of the war. The US showed absolutely zero concern for Iraqi civilians, and it still took them 3 weeks to defeat an army starved after a decade of sanctions with no allies or weaponry or support from anyone. Think of how barbaric you have to be to make the Russian army look civilized and restrained by comparison.
Excellent take I found from reddit
Yep, Ukraine is a big place, and the Russians are (or at least were) advancing 30km/day. That means, for example, it’ll take a week or two to get from the eastern border to the river even if you faced no opposition. Screw “is Russia doing well or not”, Putin physically could not have won by now without teleportation magic or a bombing campaign of the same magnitude as Vietnam
Exactly, even taking yknow, yknow, actual fighting out of the mix entirely, armies move slower than your sedan cause it’s several vehicles and people moving in strategic unison so they don’t get killed. And the overall goal doesn’t seem to be to drop napalm on people until they abandon communism so Vietnam shit doesn’t really help your goals. Wars can be fought to force a surrender, not to permanently brutalize a nation. You can accept Japan’s conditional surrender and not bomb Hiroshima for example.
