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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.


  • Yanqui_UXO [any]
    hexbear
    26
    2 years ago

    Kissinger, on his birthday, has been added to the Ukrainian semi-official enemies-of-the-state list Mirotvorets * :michael-laugh:
    Reason:

    Participation in the information special operation of Russia (aggressor country and terrorist) against Ukraine. Spreading narratives of Russian-fascist propaganda and blackmail - nuclear war, global decline, famine, migration shock, Chinese offensive, etc. in exchange for the truncation of Ukrainian territory (minimum - as of February > 24, maximum - without Donetsk, Luhansk and the entire south, including Odessa). An accomplice in the crimes of the Russian authorities against Ukraine and its citizens.

    Because of what he said in Davos**:

    Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome. Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante. Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself

    As WaPo suggests :

    The “status quo ante” mentioned by Kissinger [..] refers to restoring a situation in which Russia formally controlled Crimea and informally controlled Ukraine’s two easternmost regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.

    Which is also, as WaPo writes in the very next sentence, what Zelensky demanded a few days earlier: :stalin-stressed:

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has emphasized that part of his conditions for entering peace talks with Russia would include a restoration of preinvasion borders.

    So why is Kissinger on the bad guys' list??? Probably because despite these quotes and explanations, both WaPo and The Telegraph (the latter originally reported the Kissinger quote) used highly provokative headlines (and as we know, few people read beyond a headline):

    Kissinger says Ukraine should cede territory to Russia to end war
    Henry Kissinger: Ukraine must give Russia territory

    Russian-language media has picked it up this way too and ran with it, making a hot delicious meal out of it. Without wishing him a very good die, which is unacceptable.


    * Mirotvorets "is a Ukrainian Kyiv-based website that publishes personal information of people who are considered to be "enemies of Ukraine", or, as the website itself states, "whose actions have signs of crimes against the national security of Ukraine, peace, human security, and the international law". The website was launched in December 2014 by Ukrainian politician and activist Georgy Tuka." It is full of communists, artists and politicians who visited Crimea, reporters--whoever has said something that goes against whatever the current Ukrainian state line is.

    ** In a WaPo op-ed in 2014 Kissinger has actually voiced similar things re the role of Ukraine in the US-Russia relationship, so I guess he should've been placed on Mirotvorets much sooner:

    Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other — it should function as a bridge between them.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
      hexbear
      4
      2 years ago

      Man, reading the wiki page for this website and it seems like its all but explicitly an assassination list, even with how sanitized wikipedia tries to make it.

      Just coincidentally publishing personal details of former politicians that end up murdered days later.