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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.

  • summerbl1nd [none/use name]24•2 years ago

    man, it's like all the people i've been reading the in the past 3 years have chosen the past six months or so to pop off online :turtle-pogger:

    edit:

    despite the West’s economic, political, social and cultural problems stemming from its neoliberal anti-classical ideology being obvious for many years, many people in China still look to Western schools and leaders for guidance, as if their own native institutions, civilization and even their own race are inferior

    this + that china watcher essay from the other thread, too fucking real. liberal ideology, not even once :sadness-abysmal:

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]14•2 years ago

      Consequences of western hegemony

      IIRC there might be increasing anti-american/western sentiment in china though (does anyone have stats/polls/numbers on this?)

      • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]11•2 years ago

        Yes. I know I've seen more (and better, and more recent) polls showing this, but I'm having difficulty finding them at the moment (Google doesn't want us knowing the truth 👁️).

        But anyway, favorability of the US in China dropped by a net 13% just in the first 100 days of Biden's admin: https://morningconsult.com/2021/04/27/biden-100-days-global-views-america/

        Here's one showing a decline as of 2013: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2013/07/18/chapter-1-attitudes-toward-the-united-states/

        Here's another poll showing a pretty detailed breakdown of attitudes toward the US as of late last year, although it doesn't show change over time: https://uscnpm.org/the-pulse/

        Oh, and here's something adjacent: https://web.archive.org/web/20210710035810/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/07/10/asia-pacific/china-mao-zedong-youth/

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]3•2 years ago

      What do we do? How do you write "Our culture is a fucking nightmare of self-destructive self-annihilation that brings misery and death wherever it goes! Turn back! Accept no gifts! Burn every ship that departs from these shores and erase this cursed land from your maps!" in mandarin. Maybe we could put up a bill board on the California coast.