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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’m fucking exhausted. I can’t say anything counter to the western narrative without being accused of consuming Russian propaganda or being pro Russia. Meanwhile my friends can run with “NATO is a defensive organization” and “it’s clearly Russian propaganda to emphasize and exaggerate the role of Nazis in Ukraine”.
I don’t argue with faceless people on the internet, but I do try and challenge my friends when dumb shit gets said. I’m starting to think if I want healthy relationships I just have to shut the hell up
It’s hard, I’m legitimately afraid to say anything and anyway my blood boils at the hypocrisy. People irl actually blame Russia for Trump, as if Trump was even close to the suffering the US has caused in the world under each and every Democrat president.
I fucking hate smug liberalism so much, the fact checking, gaslighting, NPR brain idiots who think they are virtuous and intelligent by allowing neoliberals to program them toward hatred of The East. I’ve honestly just become too angry and righteous to reach anyone or change minds, and that’s something I should work on for myself.
That’s not a healthy relationship either. I know you shouldn’t block out IRL friends flippantly, but never feel like you need to shut the hell up about being a moral person who actually gives a fuck for the benefit of others’ comfort. If nothing else just don’t forget that you are correct and if there is any moral arc to history, you will be vindicated
if I want healthy relationships I just have to shut the hell up
Possibly but here’s some ammo if you haven’t seen it https://hexbear.net/post/183325/comment/2291016
It’s kind of a smoking gun to my mind. Link to source vid is in the sub-comments. Zelensky and US plotted this whole thing.
There’s a video of Lindsey Graham and John McCain in Ukraine in 2016 saying “Russia needs to pay a heavy price and we (US) will provide you with everything you need to win.”
This is 100 percent a proxy war and the Ukrainian people - and Russian soldiers - are being sacrificed. Maybe some people think that is just and “worth it” and “cool” but make them say it.
There’s this video about the BBC reporting on Ukrainian Nazis pre-war vs during the war. Not sure if this will help.
Yes. If you do want healthy relationships then you need to stfu about politics.
If me and the boys are sitting around playin video games and drinking beer and smoking, the absolute last thing that ever needs to be brought up is politics. Don’t be that guy.
Keep your personal convictions to yourself and be humble
US official: "We believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisors about how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because his senior advisors are too afraid to tell him the truth.”
Pure projection lmfao, while the ruble is almost back to pre-war levels, Europe is on the verge of recession and Ukraine’s military is being stomped.
I’m confused about how that would even work? Like, Putin is inside some bubble where he can’t see his own economic figures and frontline reports? Do these people think that for the last month he’s been constantly sitting evilly at the end of a long table, with a messenger coming in every hour on the hour going “s-sir, here’s o-our newest reports from the f-front and economic g-graphs” and he glances at them and goes “Excellent. Truly excellent. Your family shall see another winter yet.”
westerners are so totally fucking movie-brained it’s unbelievable.
It’s genuinely insane to me how people read this war.
Russia opened up by essentially destroying tonnes of military resources and infrastructure but Ukraine (allegedly) shoots down a plane and everyone talks like it’s game over for Russia.
I honestly would not be surprised if Russia comes out of this with most of its goals reached and everyone on Reddit calls it a Russian defeat because they didn’t kill every last soldier or take over the whole country or something.
They have no idea how wars work and view it only through the lens of map painting games like Total War and the Paradox games.
the western media has convinced themselves that putin has become unhinged and plans to annex all of ukraine and then keep going west, so absolutely any real outcome of this conflict over separatist regions will be panned as a complete humiliating defeat and proof that russia is a useless backwater that only barely demolished the largest military in europe without even dipping into their new-generation weaponry
lol at the replies
“you were wrong about your invasion prediction so therefore this graph youre presenting of the objective reality of publicly-available currency exchange data is fake news and can be safely ignored”
I also like “It doesn’t count because they’re propping it up.” Like, yeah, that’s the point, they have the means to prop it up.
Wonder what they’re “propping it up” with? :thinkin-lenin: Could it be the vast amounts of natural resources the world is heavily dependent on? Could it be the fact that Putin has demanded the west pay for these heavily demanded commodities in rubles?
Russia needs to construct additional pylons and the sanctions are stopping him
@SeventyTwoTrillion has become my main news source
I just picked the biggest number I could think of and made it my username
