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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.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.

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.

  • Awoo [she/her]27•2 years ago

    Turkey's demands are quite interesting. If Scandinavia throws the PKK under a bus will it affect the US in Syria?

      • Awoo [she/her]13•2 years ago

        Huh, I thought they had ties with the YPG that the US is working with. Maybe I don't really grasp that whole situation fully.

        • chlooooooooooooo [she/her]15•2 years ago

          the YPG aren't the PKK, and in any case the alleged links between the two orgs that Turkey uses to justify ethnic cleansing don't bother the US in their occupation of the region

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]7•2 years ago

            There's like half a dozen factions of Kurds in the border areas of Syria, Iraq, and Turkey.

        • voice_of_hermes [he/him,any]1•2 years ago

          The U.S. "worked with" the YPG very opportunistically and temporarily because the YPG were extremely effective at fighting ISIS, and that was good PR and simultaneously a burr in Assad's side. The YPG knew all along the U.S. would betray them, as it very much did, giving Turkey the green light to attack Rojava as it pulled all support away to simply go shore up its hold on oil fields elsewhere in Syria.

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]11•2 years ago

      Russia could be influencing Turkey through backchannels as well. Erdogan and Putin have been building up the relationship between their two countries. Wouldn't be unthinkable that Turkey agreed to disrupt the ascension of the Nordic states in exchange for some unknown concession from Russia. That'd be a pretty smart and clever move on Putin's part, using NATO's large size against them

      • GundamZZ [he/him]15•2 years ago

        Is there an ejection clause in NATO at all? I'm guessing Turkey would back off before that but it'd be funny to see Turkey gum up NATO expansion for awhile.

        • SoyViking [he/him]9•2 years ago

          They kind of like having Turkey in the US sphere of influence. Throwing a tantrum and sending them into the arms of Russia would be incredibly geopolitically stupid.

          • MaeBorowski [she/her]12•2 years ago

            Indeed. But doing incredibly geopoliticallly stupid things seems to be in vogue for the West rn.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]2•2 years ago

            Could we throw a tantrum and shove the Turkish leadership in to the Bosphorus? Remember when the Right was droning on about "Islamo-Fascism" a decade or so ago? That's more or less what's actually going on in Turkey under Erdogan.