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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.


Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.

https://t.me/asbmil ~ ASB Military News, banned from Twitter.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster - crowd-funded U.S journalist, mostly pro-Russian, works on the ground near warzones to report news and talk to locals.

https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.

https://t.me/rybar ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

With the entire western media sphere being overwhelming pro-Ukraine already, you shouldn't really need more, but:

https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.

https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


Yesterday's discussion post.


  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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    hexbear
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    2 years ago

    That, and the idea that the only reason why Russia is needing to inflict massive casualties on Ukraine is pure cruelty rather than that being the reality of war ("Why aren't they rapidly advancing and instead being cowards and bombarding them with artillery from a safe distance?!") and also that taking land from Ukraine isn't necessarily victory. You also see this with people saying that the USSR "lost" their war with Finland.

    I hypothetically agree with the idea that Pyrrhic victories exist, but if you're saying that Ukraine can inflict a Pyrrhic victory on Russia despite losing lots of territory if they also manage to weaken Russia's military for a generation or cause massive unrest inside Russia, then I need actual evidence of either of those things happening before I agree, and I don't think there's evidence for either case, despite Ukraine claiming that they've destroyed a billion artillery pieces and half of Russia's army or whatever. And with Zelensky to this day maintaining the fantasy that only 3000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed despite admitting that there are at least 200 deaths a day on the Donbass front, any figures put out by Ukraine are just not at all credible. I generally think that if you give Ukraine's claimed losses to Russia and Ukraine's claimed Russian losses to Ukraine, you will have a substantially more accurate view of the current state of the war, and that the recent admission of massive daily Ukrainian casualties is the first real break from that.