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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.


  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
    hexbear
    50
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Murderous rage against the fucking succdem worms who are now accusing Swedish leftists of "spreading Erdogans propaganda" by implying that he objectively has influence and power over Swedish politics due to us being reliant on his vote for our undemocratic entry into NATO. "Oh Erdogan can't force us to do anything so its dishonest to imply that we will be forced to do something like crack down on Kurds". Fuck off.

    Also these fucking worms are now saying shit like, "oh this isnt an undemocratic flip of policy from the past social democratic party congress, because inbetween party congresses the party leadership are in command", so what the fuck does a congress mean, just broadly establishing a preferred direction that you fucking shitheads can choose to ignore then? How do you fucking have the stomach to imply thats in any way a democratic system, social fascist scum.

    If the situation is of such immediacy that you have to circumvent literally every single democratic avenue for influencing the decision, from internal party congresses and votes, to a general referendum, to even rushing this past mere months before a general election(Particularly when in the general election that got you fucks elected last time, you opposed all suggestion of NATO membership), fucking demonstrate it, but no, it involves matters of state secrets so you get to just handwave this through while smearing other countries as undemocratic.

    Edit: WOW WHAT A SURPRISE, specific Kurds have been named in demands to extradite them, several who have alleged that Turkey has tortured them in the past and almost certainly they will be tortured if extradited, yet all the twitter socdems are saying is "He's just bluffing we're negotiating with him behind the scenes".

      • SoyViking [he/him]
        hexbear
        38
        2 years ago

        Westoids are being told no. By a non-white country. They're not used to this at all and it makes their brains short-circuit.

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
        hexbear
        32
        2 years ago

        They want to join a pact with the devil and then complain that the devil is making them do bad things.

        Maybe don’t join NATO if you don’t want to be forced into alliance with evil terrorist supporting dictators like Erdogan?

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
        hexbear
        20
        2 years ago

        Im eagerly anticipating the article about how its conspiratorial to question if Sweden will be on the hook for supporting nations and militaries that we fundamentally disagree with(or are supposed to at least).

        But I mean its not like we havent been training Azovs or sending troops into every imperialist war as "peacekeepers" for decades, so the principle of the matter is moot already, its just a concern over scale.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      hexbear
      25
      2 years ago

      what the fuck does a congress mean

      In western succdem parties a congress simply means that the leadership gives bland speeches, the delegates claps like trained sealions without interfering and then at night everyone gets drunk.

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
      hexbear
      7
      2 years ago

      yet all the twitter socdems are saying is “He’s just bluffing we’re negotiating with him behind the scenes”.

      Man, they're going to be so surprised when their social fascist politicians give the literal terrorist state everything it wants.