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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/
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
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This entire saga with the west has just shown how important it is for global south nations to de-link from the imperial core in some fashion. To build our own systems to counter those from the west. Of the five monopolies, (nuclear weapons, communication systems, financial systems, technology and natural resources), the west has attempted to remove Russia from all of them except nuclear weapons, and that’s just because they can’t physically do that. China got it right in building its own systems in this regard to counteract the monopolies of the west.
Yeah… I myself is utterly amazed of how thoroughly the west has shot itself in the foot over this one. These sanctions are a one-off thing. The next time around the BadCountry in question will have hedged its position by integrating with non-western economic systems.
And although I’m no finance guy I can’t imagine how a shift to non-western financial systems, the Chinese yuan and non-western supply chains is going to do anything but significantly harm the ability of western capital to extract profits.
The lashing out we see is utterly irrational.
Yea. This is the chance for Putin to put the oligarch down once and for all, and not letting capital and technical talents to flow out
Russia will probably have a big brain drain over this, so technical talent will likely flow out
Ruble is already stabilizing, there is no panic or hyperinflation that ensue.
The TrueAnon crew mentioned this in passing in one of their Ukraine eps, as did someone on either TrashFuture or WTYP fairly recently.
The Russian economy is significantly more insulated from the west than it was in the early 90s. Like, Russians don’t run out of pizza simply because the run out of Pizza Huts.
Their biggest trading partner is China, and the Chinese are very pointedly staying neutral. After that, Western Europe need Russian gas far more than Russia needs Western luxury goods.
What I don’t really get is what happens to Russian stocks.
Blackrock and Direxion have ended their Russian etfs, and there are sanctions on individual Russian securities. So does the Russian stock market just die in that case? It closed for some number of weeks for trading, and possibly not even going to be investable when it re-opens…
Yep for sure. It’s kind of crazy actually how in under two weeks they can just straight up cut you off from basically everything.
the west has attempted to remove Russia from all of them except nuclear weapons, and that’s just because they can’t physically do that
Clinton, Bush Jr, and Obama all spent significant time and political capital trying to squeeze nukes out of Russia.
But when you can’t get a handful of nukes out of North Korea, the Russian project seems that much more insurmountable.
FUCK CANADIAN MEDIA. FUCKIN NAZI APOLOGISTS. FUCK “JOURNALISTS” EAT MY COMMIE ASSHOLE YOU NAZI FUCKS!
The owner of a boat flying the flag of the Soviet Union in a Vancouver marina is refusing to take it down.
CTV News is reporting the city’s parks board has been inundated with new complaints about the flag, which has been flying for years, on the mast of a boat at the Heather Civic Marina.
“I think a lot of people are very, very offended by this,” said board chair Stuart Mackinnon.
Mackinnon told CTV a parks board staffer asked the owner of the boat to remove the flag, but they refused.
Associate professor of Central and Eastern European Studies at UBC Florian Gassner said it is likely the boat’s owner is ignorant or indifferent to the suffering associated with the flag.
Millions of people died, often starved or murdered, under soviet policies. The Holodomor terror famine imposed on Ukraine in 1932/33 resulted in around 3.5 million deaths. Russian invasion forces have also been using the flag in Ukraine.
“The flag is upsetting not just for Ukrainians who have family members there right now, but any Ukrainian alive today who has parent, or a grandparent, or a great-grandparent that suffered the atrocities of soviet rule,” Gassner told CTV.
The park board has no ability to compel the flag to be removed, as it is protected under freedom of expression.
Recently, other boats at the marina started flying the flag of Ukraine. The single Soviet flag is now surrounded by blue and yellow.
with files from CTV Vancouver
The single Soviet flag is now surrounded by blue and yellow.
*I think they meant blonde and blue. hmmm I wonder why Ukraine would choose those two colors for their flag…
“I think a lot of people are very, very offended by this,” said board chair Stuart Mackinnon.
When our turn comes…
from what I understand the Russian military’s strategy is to encircle ukrainian units, then allow a corridor for anyone who surrenders weapons/proves they aren’t part of the ukrainian military, particularly azov, but the ukrainian military according to testimonies of some in Donbass and Mariupol are not allowing civilians, particularly Russian speakers from DPR and LPR, to use the russian corridors, finding them more useful as human shields. This would imply that, despite the invasion, Russian federation cares at least a little bit about optics, even if only for cynical reasons.
This whole ordeal proves that the entirety of the US would throw their support behind a fascist coup if a country in the global south achieves socialism
All it would take is a little push from establishment media