Links and Stuff
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.
You feel a compulsive need to police the “approved sources” for your comrades, who you obviously are sneering down on for believing “propaganda” and Russian disinfo. You act like people can’t suss out info from various reactionary or liberal sources as if we are children you need to correct.
This only happens when people start taking non-western media more seriously that western media. Suddenly it becomes a flattening “it’s all just as bad as everything else man” which is obfuscatory and controlling, not demystifying
Some sources are better and more reliable than others. Western media and Ukrainian media and western governments are objectively more full of imperialist shit. They are not equal, and we don’t need your footnotes on everything. If you have a specific claim or a specific source you want to refute, go for it and make your case. But stop smearing all non-western media as “just as bad” vaguely
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I’m sick of westerners doing both sides shit regarding Russia and the general global south. It’s everywhere and it’s chauvinism and it drips from your condescending tone
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You are the one starting this all with a condescending “both sides” meme and then continued to just belittle and talk down instead of engaging with my concerns about your chauvinism at all.
Do you understand how frustrating it is for non-western anti-imperialists that the only westerners who “agree” with us about the need for the destruction of the American empire also feel the constant compulsion to “chime in” and remind us that the global south enemies are “just as evil” and we are stupid for taking a side.
How about you learn your place as westoids, your role is to destroy your empire from within. That’s it. It is never, ever to criticize the targets of your imperialist empire and align with them. To use rhetorical tricks to obfuscate the truth of the one-sided evil that must be destroyed
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I’m not looking into your mind I am talking about your words, your memes and your general attitude of “both sides are bad” which is self-serving bullshit
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Anti-imperialism = reaction
The western left does it again folks
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Critical support from Russians. From westoid you shut your mouth. You don’t treat the west and the east as equally evil or propagandistic. You deal with your assigned role of destroying your empire. Why can westoid leftists never hold adequately to a simple anti-imperialist line?