Thank you @SeventyTwoTrillion for all your effort. :sankara-salute:
If you have any useful resource links please tag me in a comment with the link:
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to this if you can, thank you.
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/ :kitty-cri-texas:
Twitter military updaters:
https://nitter.42l.fr/RWApodcast
https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary :kitty-cri:
https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet
https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518
https://www.youtube.com/c/DefensePoliticsAsia/videos
obvious disclaimers about taking all of them with tonnes of salt etc
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:
Previous megathreads
!news@hexbear.net RSS Feed https://hexbear.net/feeds/c/news.xml
I haven’t checked in for a while because the majority of the world buying into the Pro-Ukraine propaganda so fast was too infuriating… not to mention the horribly racist comments everywhere. I’m going to start tuning back into what’s happening, but I’m really baffled by such this universal response. It’s like someone flipped a switch and everyone fell in line
I guess I’m just a bit naive when it comes to this, but the speed of the response was shocking
Your average boomer, millenial and zoomer has grown up in a petri dish full of anti Russian propaganda. From movies, books and video games. All the west needed to do was turn on the latent programming MK ULTRA style
ever since the bolivian coup i’ve been paying attention to these episodes and honestly it’s always like this when the imperial machine starts churning: a barrage of propaganda, from the most ridiculous shit to the very plausible, and people are completely taken in
for a while, whatever the empire is targeting becomes the major topic of conversation, for every single western drone, and comments like “you know, i’ve never been supportive of/against X, but this time it just has to be done!” become very common
western people (and 3rd worlders who aren’t protected against this) will give up on every value they thought they had just so they can go along with the hegemonic narrative, just so they won’t feel like they’re wrong, or out of the norm
a while after that, especially after the empire achieves its objectives (or fails to do so, which is slowly starting to be the case more often than not), the machine slows down, and everyone forgets whatever that previously extremely important subject was, just waiting for the media to tell them what’s important and wrong once again
it’s fucking horrifying
If you said Ukraine was full of nazis then Amerikkkans would support them even harder
Yeah I had to just check out for a while for the same reason. It was making me feel constantly angry with the only 2 people I talk to irl and how they thought I was naive for “believing Russian propaganda.” :agony-deep:
But now I’m regretting how ive stopped paying attention because I don’t know what’s going on anymore.
It sucks having to weigh your mental health and your only social interactions against being informed and understanding what’s happening in the world.
This is narrative slavery at its finest. People are already primed to believe Ukraine good and Russia bad, so they’ll believe anything that already fits into that narrative with ease while changing it becomes extremely hard. Combine that with constant appeal to emotion to shut off the brain and atomization so there’s not many people one would listen to with respect, and you get a slave that’ll willfully spread your agenda while taking pride in doing so for free
someone flipped a switch
For me it was a country invading another country pretty much unprovoked
