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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can, thank you.

Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)

Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Yesterday's discussion post.

  • Fishroot [none/use name]37•2 years ago

    There is a book called the “chinese mirage” that talks about the diplomatic failure because we created an idea of china via think tanks /china specialists that act like yes men for the people who pay them

    • a_fanonist_hexagon [he/him]29•2 years ago

      There's another book called Washington's China that's basically a history of the national security elites and their misinformed ideological viewpoint as regards the People's Republic

      • Fishroot [none/use name]13•2 years ago

        Tbh the post capitalism realism where the consumption is able to influence politics and also human behaviour is fascinating. In a sense the product that those think tanks is selling is basically a false premise where the people who sponser the think tanks is not there to get a real analysis of the situation but more to get what is the good analysis(product) they want

    • Foolio [any]27•2 years ago

      Same thing happened with Russia, which is how you got the "gas station with a country" quips and UK leaders stating that they would never recognize Russia's sovereignty over actual provinces of Russian Federation

      Big issue in general in politics is that the people who report on it and "develop" policy believe their own farts over actual fact-finding or analysis. Thete's a quote from an Obama official that goes like "newspapers used to have foreign bureaus all over the world to get news on foreign affairs. Now they just ask us. The average international reporter is a 27 year old that knows nothing".

      • SadStruggle92 [none/use name]9•2 years ago

        Thete’s a quote from an Obama official that goes like “newspapers used to have foreign bureaus all over the world to get news on foreign affairs. Now they just ask us. The average international reporter is a 27 year old that knows nothing”.

        Y'know I remember years ago reading that print-newspaper was more or less dying as a medium because of intensely low profit margins, and I can't help but imagine that that's a big contributor to this.

        • blight [any]6•2 years ago

          low profit margins

          hmm i wonder if someone may have written about why this happens at some point in time