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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]M22•2 years ago

      Volunteer Ukrainian fighters are tooling around in Soviet-era military vehicles armed with WWI-vintage machine guns while done up as their fierce Cossack ancestors that have challenged Russian authority since the 16th century.

      Russia takes tanks from the 1960s out of storage to reinforce a relatively quiet area of occupied Ukraine: "Russia is running out of tanks! They're about to lose!"

      Ukraine uses weaponry from the 1910s, dressed up as 16th century Cossacks: "AWESOME!!! Ukraine's about to deliver the finishing blow on Russia in STYLE! That's how much they don't even need modern weaponry, as the Russian orcs are so primitive!"

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]6•2 years ago

      A ninety year old machine gun will kill you just as dead as a modern one. Reminds me of Syria, where all kinds of weird shit was dug out of basements and museums. Or Iraq, where the most unexpected weapons kept turning up in arms caches.