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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.

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

    Zelenskyy address to Iceland:

    blah blah we share a common heritage (like barely, Kiev was ruled by Varangian princes but that was over a thousand years ago)

    we both like democracy and freedom and stuff

    one funny thing he said was that we are both in the outskirts of Europe 🤔

    also that the "soil", people and culture not only makes us different to our neighbours but also links us and our children to the generations before us

    We are under attack by Russia

    some allegations of cultural genocide by Russia

    Praise for Iceland for being democratic and peaceful (not that hard if you look at our material conditions)

    Very subtly comparing Russia to Earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions

    Accuses Russia of forcing 500.000 people to go to Russia, taking their ID's and forms of communication, says they are transported to distant regions in Russia

    Accuses Russia of killing tens of thousands of people and committing war crimes, especially in Bucha

    Accuses Russia of hunting down dissidents, activists and journalists (ironic)

    Russia is doing this to Ukraine because Ukrainians want freedom

    Russias attack is not only against Ukraine but against freedom itself

    Thanks Iceland for supporting sanctions

    Offers Iceland to take part in rebuilding Ukraine after they have won, especially with modernizing the energy grid (i'm not aware of any potential for untapped geothermal or hydroelectric power in Ukraine, but sure!)

    "Slava Ukraini"

    • jackmarxist [any]35•2 years ago

      So Ukraine shares heritage with Iceland somehow but Russia is an alien horde? Wut

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M16•2 years ago

      Very subtly comparing Russia to Earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions

      I have a mental image of Zelensky writing his speech with the Iceland Wikipedia page open and being like "huh, it's volcanic, okay, gotta get that in"

      Offers Iceland to take part in rebuilding Ukraine after they have won, especially with modernizing the energy grid (i’m not aware of any potential for untapped geothermal or hydroelectric power in Ukraine, but sure!)

      I love it when he does this. My prediction a couple weeks ago about how he's just gonna go around to each European country and task them with rebuilding part of Ukraine becomes ever closer to reality by the day. Like the rebuilding sequence near the end of an animated children's movie. Encanto or something like that.