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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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.

Last week's discussion post.

  • plov_mix [comrade/them]44•2 years ago

    Apparently the NYT has an article about "the deep-set fears Xi Jinping has in his party losing control in China," per the Guardian's summary. Excerpt below

    Over informal, private meals with American leaders, China’s Xi Jinping let his guard down a little. It was a decade ago, relations were less strained, and Mr. Xi, still cementing his power, hinted he worried about the Chinese Communist Party’s grip.

    Speaking privately with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Mr. Xi suggested that China was a target of “color revolutions,” a phrase the party adopted from Russia for popular unrest in the name of democracy and blamed on the West. The recent “Arab Spring” uprisings across the Middle East had reinforced his concerns that China was vulnerable to public anger over corruption and inequality, both of which the country had in abundance.

    “Xi couldn’t have been more forthright that China is beset by malevolent forces and internally prey to centrifugal forces,” said Daniel R. Russel, a former senior American diplomat who accompanied Mr. Biden to China in 2011.

    “He would talk all the time about color revolutions. That’s clearly a sort of front-of-mind issue for him,” said Ryan Hass, the National Security Council director for China when Mr. Xi later visited the White House.

    Such fears have come to define the era of Mr. Xi. Over the past decade, he has pursued an all-encompassing drive to expand the very meaning of “national security” in China, bolstering the party’s control on all fronts against any perceived threats abroad that could pounce on weakness at home.

    He has strengthened, centralized and emboldened an already pervasive security apparatus, turning it into a hulking fortress that protects him and positions him as the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Mr. Xi has built what he calls a “comprehensive” system designed for a world he sees as determined to thwart China — politically, economically, socially, militarily and technologically.

    It's funny how the westoid libs writing this must be like "lol xi so paranoid pooh bear scared." BUT IT'S FUCKING AMAZING TO HAVE SOMEONE THIS CLEAR-MINDED ABOUT THE POLITICAL RISKS OF MARKET AND LIBERAL REFORMS.

    :xi-clap:

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]43•2 years ago

      He has strengthened, centralized and emboldened an already pervasive security apparatus, turning it into a hulking fortress that protects him and positions him as the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.

      It is so funny how things like the Patriot act and the Snowden/Prism leaks completely disappeared from the their collective memory, not only they didn't give a shit back then, now they don't even acknowledge it happened.

      National intelligence? That is 1984 gomunism something something. Nowadays the fact the CIA is all over social media is just accepted as a matter of fact and even mild distrust of these agencies is relegated to right wing spaces or dismissed as some Russian plot.

      And it all happened during the Obama years. As my early early socialist years I still remember caring and being surprised that the west would go down this route. But for quite some time now I just laugh because it is so damn obvious libs do not want to fight these agencies, they want to run these agencies and persecute their enemies with them. All they want is to believe it is their turn on the driving wheel.

      And yet here we are it is 2022, literaly nothing was done about this and some piece of shit liberal journalist is still writing some piece about how leader of Bad Communist Country built a "pervasive security apparatus". Go to fucking hell, you are lucky I'm not the one with the pervasive security apparatus ready to jump on your ass lol.

      • plov_mix [comrade/them]18•2 years ago

        Xi was very straight-talking when he was China’s VP. One of his first famous sayings at a diplomatic occasion (I think it was at a meeting in Mexico with local Chinese people) was this

        有些吃饱了没事干的外国人，对我们的事情指手画脚。中国一不输出革命，二不输出饥饿和贫困，三不去折腾你们，还有什么好说的

        There are those foreigners who eat too much and got nothing else to do and love pointing fingers at our domestic affairs. China (1) doesn’t export revolutions, (2) doesn’t export famine or poverty, and (3) doesn’t do anything to wreck your countries — What the hell is there to complain about?”

        :xi-lib-tears:

        Please Xi revoke (1) and (3).

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M31•2 years ago

      Yet another example of the doublethink around "authoritarian" nations that authors like :party-parenti: have pointed out. In this instance, the Communist Party of China simultaneously has an iron grip on the public and instills them with brainwashing propaganda every day to the point that they have an alternative reality to us, but also the country is loosely tied together and if neoliberal "liberators" merely kicked in the door, the whole rotten structure would collapse.

      And as you say, it's very wise for Xi to be so cognizant of the risks of having a country in any way opposed to the US. I mean, up until fairly recently, China was perfectly happy to go along with their whims for the most part, until China was sufficiently developed for socialism at least - America started the rift.

    • SoyViking [he/him]26•2 years ago

      :obama-spike: "Uhm... We just stand for freedom and democracy. Nothing to see here."

      :xi-lib-tears: "I know what the fuck you're up to. You're not fooling anyone."

    • spring_rabbit [she/her]19•2 years ago

      It's cool that liberals can still pretend that color revolutions straight up don't exist. There are only popular uprisings for democracy and you're being paranoid if you suggest that the West might have something to do with it.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]5•2 years ago

      It's literally indisputable that the western world intends to thwart China politically, economically, militarily and technologically, these are things that these states all explicitly talk about and which the NYT certainly has reported on.