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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.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M24•2 years ago

    As Things Fall Apart Biden May Want To Escalate MoA

    Is reality setting in? Is that why a Washington Post reporter, who has been on the frontline in Ukraine, was allowed to write this?

    "Ukrainian volunteer fighters in the east feel abandoned

    [A]fter three months of war, this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths, injuries and desertions.

    The volunteers were civilians before Russia invaded on Feb. 24, and they never expected to be dispatched to one of the most dangerous front lines in eastern Ukraine. They quickly found themselves in the crosshairs of war, feeling abandoned by their military superiors and struggling to survive."

    ...

    The men were put into a frontline ditch and have since been shelled again and again without any ability to respond. They then disregarded the orders from above and left. They have now be arrested. The military values of such units was zero to begin with. Untrained men under command of an inexperienced civilian and with no real weapons have no chance to hold out against a professional military force like the Russian army.

    ...

    But the biggest part of the responsibility for the life of those men falls to the Biden administration. It tried to push Zelensky to invade Donbas in early 2021. Back then Russia started large scale maneuvers and made clear that they would intervene. Zelensky got cold feet and pulled back.

    When the 2021 attempt had failed the Biden administration did not change its general plan as it is part of a larger strategy to push the 'west' into a new cold war with Russia and China. After the 2021 attempt on Donbas had failed the U.S. immediately prepared for a new attempt to provoke Russia in Ukraine in spring 2022.

    The Ukrainian assault began on February 16 when over several days Ukrainian artillery increased its bombardment of Donbas by a factor of 40. Russia reacted to that and on February 24 preempted the planned ground assault. The above part of Biden's plan to provoke Russia into a war as a means to strengthen the U.S. position in Europe has worked well.

    But how long will the coalition of the 'west' hold when inflation, energy scarcity and hunger set in? European unity is already falling apart with each country scrambling to fulfill its own energy needs. Everyone can now see that the Ukraine, and with it the U.S., is losing the war. Meanwhile Russia is doing much better than anyone had expected.

    What is Biden's plan now as things fall apart? Escalating towards a wider war is an option but the risk of it is much higher than potential gains. Still, for Biden it may be the only way he is willing to go.

    • SoyViking [he/him]19•2 years ago

      So the whole "If Putin thinks he's losing the war he'll become desperate and go nuclear!" was projection all along?

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M13•2 years ago

        This entire war has been a projection exercise, imo. Just apply whatever negative things Ukraine was saying to Russia and you'll have the reality of the situation. 25,000 dead Russians? Actually Ukrainians. Increasing desperation for Russia? Actually for Ukraine. A need for more sophisticated weapons for Russia to take on the Ukrainian forces? The opposite was true.

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]17•2 years ago

      I thought this article was from the Washington Post or some other mainstream source and I was amazed to see language acknowledging that the invasion of Ukraine wasn't completely "unprovoked".