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/
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
Anonymous: “I can excuse slavery by Nestle, but doing business with Russia is where I draw the line!”
Anonymous has to be a fucking LARP, right? So pathetic
People getting vanned. YouTuber in Latvia “Weapons of History” just got arrested for having a pro-Russian bias. Someone was arrested in the US the other day for displaying a DPR flag in their window (update: DPR flag guy was assaulted, attacker was arrested. Sorry for confusion). ASB Military News just cut all coverage of Ukraine-Russia because some members of their team are in nations where that can get you jail time.
The West is getting so fucking fascist. Stay frosty and stay anonymous
Mango Press, they are explicitly communist as well and cover other topics too
Intel Slava Z has all the content ASB posted and more, but they don’t vet their intel as well and are more explicitly Russian nationalist. Still a decent source for direct telegram footage of the battlefield
And I just got settled in :estonia-cool: with a decent-ish job and all. Feel that being against NATO (and recognizing their responsibility in creating the conditions that caused this war) could well be considered “pro-Russia” and outlawed here too.
Wonder if I should start to seriously consider moving back to South Africa (again)
Edit: they followed up on the story, Ukrainian hate-crimed a Russian and has been arrested, so it wasn’t the blogger arrested
Catching a van will be in like 2-3 years, though. Fascists love to disappear people.
I’m IP banned for saying the sniper guy would probably get hit with an airstrike, and then reporting calls to violence against russians (with no “fighters” qualifier)
edit: okay I lied I said I hope he gets hit, but still not a call to violence
Intel Slava reports on Telegram:
🇷🇺🇱🇻 The author of one of the main Russian-language YouTube channels on military topics was arrested in Riga. European authorities want to accuse him of treason because of the pro-Russian orientation of his videos
The History of Weapons YouTube channel has become one of the main patriotic amateur sites on YouTube in recent weeks. Its author, Kirill Fedorov, published in it analyzes of hostilities and did not hide his pro-Russian positions. The videos went into trends and gained millions of views, which the EU authorities did not like very much.
Permanently residing in Latvia, Kirill decided to emigrate to Russia, seeing how the foreign policy situation was deteriorating. Moreover, from the very beginning of the military operation, the blogger began to receive regular threats - he was obsessively offered to change the direction of his videos to anti-Russian, promising otherwise serious problems with the authorities. But on March 17, just before his departure, right in his parents’ apartment, he was detained by state security agencies without explanation. After the 48 hours required by European law, he was not released, and his relatives and lawyer were threatened with problems if they spoke to the Russian press. As Readovka managed to find out, Fedorov was detained upon appeal to Latvia by the European authorities - he is accused of cooperation with Russia and will be charged with treason. In particular, he is charged with cooperation with Russian intelligence.
The situation is complicated by the fact that Fedorov is a citizen of Latvia, and that pressure is being exerted on his relatives, who are currently in Riga - people are extremely intimidated and afraid to talk to anyone. It is obvious that the European authorities will use this case to put pressure on everyone who provides at least some media support to Russia. In modern Europe, there can no longer be two opinions on the issue of our country.
In further news, the ASB Telegram channel has removed its Ukraine content and announced it will no longer bring need from the Ukraine out of fear of government repression.
I love all the freedom, democracy and civil liberties we have in the west! We need NATO to defend ourselves against commie nazi tankie Putler who wants to come and take away our freeze peach.
Where is the alleged Putin propaganda? All I see is random videos about guns and a couple listicle type videos about weapons in Ukraine
There’s an awful lot of them if they’re not real.
Several British newspaper websites seem to have published articles and pictures of people taped to poles with giddy headlines about Ukrainians “dealing with looters”. They seem to have conspicuously not included those with (CW: SA ref)
spoiler
women stripped from the waist down in an apparent invitation to use rape as punishment
or apparently Roma people with their faces painted green.
I think twitter nuke it. Yes, there’s some pretty sketchy stuff in Kiev right now, where a bunch of criminals get gun, and the place is lawless.
i archived a lot of the torture videos that juan Sinmiedo uploaded to to twitter
Heard on CBC today that it was actually Russians torturing Ukrainian citizens :surprised-pika:
Leftists in February 2022 be like:
:putin-wink: :cereal1: “he will never invade ukraine”
:ukkkraine: :cereal2:
:stuff: I just found out we had the cereal guy emote
It was mainly western leftist downplaying this
Go back and watch Grayzone interviews from January with people in the DPR, they were calling it and saying a war was coming.
The western left wasn’t ready to make a full throated attack against NATO imperialism on behalf of Russia, so instead they hedged by denying anything was happening at all
Ukrainians were also disbelieving. 3 days prior to invasion, Aljazeera reports only 20% of Ukrainians thought invasion was imminent: “https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/21/why-ukrainians-dont-believe-in-war-with-russia-distrust-west”
It totally made sense in hindsight, but I had no experience with US intelligence that was actually accurate so I couldn’t believe it
It seemed to make absolutely no sense in terms of Russia’s geopolitical interests. Zelensky and the Ukrainians said they weren’t expecting an invasion. The people hyping it up were all proven serial liars.
absolutely no sense in terms of Russia’s geopolitical interests
Except the interest of making NATO look impotent by putting them in a position of being totally unwilling to make any sacrifice to actually act. It’s really hard to beat an enemy that is used to a much lower living standard / hardship level.
I was following my general belief that nothing big and decisive ever happens and that everything is just a series of tiny nudges back and forth with a long-term tendency towards things getting slightly worse.
I still think I’m generally right but I was completely and totally wrong on this one.
