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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to this if you can, thank you.
Links
Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ukraine/@49.1162725,31.7993839,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40d1d9c154700e8f:0x1068488f64010!8m2!3d48.379433!4d31.1655799?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1B1PLMhbHmG1aJ2-QNxHY1TksI6HlNhqF&ll=48.60777942568106%2C36.4496511633501&z=7
Leftist discussion threads:
https://hexbear.net/post/177324
https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/
https://lemmygrad.ml/
Twitter military updaters:
https://nitter.42l.fr/RWApodcast
https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary :kitty-cri:
https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet
https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518
https://www.youtube.com/c/DefensePoliticsAsia/videos
obvious disclaimers about taking all of them with tonnes of salt etc
Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413
Better war/propaganda analysis:
https://www.understandingwar.org
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
News updates:
https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html
Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html
YT/Video in Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBentleyTe
Previous megathreads
!news@hexbear.net RSS Feed https://hexbear.net/feeds/c/news.xml
If you can sure, but if you have a position of moderate power, it’s better to be quiet and maintain power over capitalist mechanisms. Stir up a little trouble, but enough you maintain your hold as a “loyal” servant. Just in case. :che-smile:
Well said. I hope more countries speak out about aggressive NATO expansion and what war crimes are done in the name of "freedom"
This entire saga with the west has just shown how important it is for global south nations to de-link from the imperial core in some fashion. To build our own systems to counter those from the west. Of the five monopolies, (nuclear weapons, communication systems, financial systems, technology and natural resources), the west has attempted to remove Russia from all of them except nuclear weapons, and that's just because they can't physically do that. China got it right in building its own systems in this regard to counteract the monopolies of the west.
Yeah... I myself is utterly amazed of how thoroughly the west has shot itself in the foot over this one. These sanctions are a one-off thing. The next time around the BadCountry in question will have hedged its position by integrating with non-western economic systems.
And although I'm no finance guy I can't imagine how a shift to non-western financial systems, the Chinese yuan and non-western supply chains is going to do anything but significantly harm the ability of western capital to extract profits.
The lashing out we see is utterly irrational.
Yea. This is the chance for Putin to put the oligarch down once and for all, and not letting capital and technical talents to flow out
My very basic understanding: A state in control of its own currency can generate as much money as it wants, so there is no good reason to run it like a household economy thinking it has to have more income than expenses. The limiting factor is that inflation could take off, but that could be controlled through taxation (and unemployment, but MMT proponents usually want to do away with that)
Russia will probably have a big brain drain over this, so technical talent will likely flow out
It’s already flow out since the Soviet collapse. When the oligarch sell the country and move their capital over sea, not investing, the brain drain already happen. Now it’s time for Russia to rebuild their economy to be more robust and not depend on the west.
Ruble is already stabilizing, there is no panic or hyperinflation that ensue.
The TrueAnon crew mentioned this in passing in one of their Ukraine eps, as did someone on either TrashFuture or WTYP fairly recently.
The Russian economy is significantly more insulated from the west than it was in the early 90s. Like, Russians don't run out of pizza simply because the run out of Pizza Huts.
Their biggest trading partner is China, and the Chinese are very pointedly staying neutral. After that, Western Europe need Russian gas far more than Russia needs Western luxury goods.
What I don't really get is what happens to Russian stocks.
Blackrock and Direxion have ended their Russian etfs, and there are sanctions on individual Russian securities. So does the Russian stock market just die in that case? It closed for some number of weeks for trading, and possibly not even going to be investable when it re-opens...
True I was just kind of curious because I don't think that's ever happened before, really stinks if you are a domestic investor for that matter too.
I guess that's why everyone always said Russian stocks are so cheap in valuations because risks of this are priced in.
Yep for sure. It's kind of crazy actually how in under two weeks they can just straight up cut you off from basically everything.
I need to read more Samir Amin, as more time passes it sounds like he got more and more things right.
the west has attempted to remove Russia from all of them except nuclear weapons, and that’s just because they can’t physically do that
Clinton, Bush Jr, and Obama all spent significant time and political capital trying to squeeze nukes out of Russia.
But when you can't get a handful of nukes out of North Korea, the Russian project seems that much more insurmountable.
from what I understand the Russian military's strategy is to encircle ukrainian units, then allow a corridor for anyone who surrenders weapons/proves they aren't part of the ukrainian military, particularly azov, but the ukrainian military according to testimonies of some in Donbass and Mariupol are not allowing civilians, particularly Russian speakers from DPR and LPR, to use the russian corridors, finding them more useful as human shields. This would imply that, despite the invasion, Russian federation cares at least a little bit about optics, even if only for cynical reasons.
FUCK CANADIAN MEDIA. FUCKIN NAZI APOLOGISTS. FUCK "JOURNALISTS" EAT MY COMMIE ASSHOLE YOU NAZI FUCKS!
The owner of a boat flying the flag of the Soviet Union in a Vancouver marina is refusing to take it down.
CTV News is reporting the city’s parks board has been inundated with new complaints about the flag, which has been flying for years, on the mast of a boat at the Heather Civic Marina.
“I think a lot of people are very, very offended by this,” said board chair Stuart Mackinnon.
Mackinnon told CTV a parks board staffer asked the owner of the boat to remove the flag, but they refused.
Associate professor of Central and Eastern European Studies at UBC Florian Gassner said it is likely the boat’s owner is ignorant or indifferent to the suffering associated with the flag.
Millions of people died, often starved or murdered, under soviet policies. The Holodomor terror famine imposed on Ukraine in 1932/33 resulted in around 3.5 million deaths. Russian invasion forces have also been using the flag in Ukraine.
“The flag is upsetting not just for Ukrainians who have family members there right now, but any Ukrainian alive today who has parent, or a grandparent, or a great-grandparent that suffered the atrocities of soviet rule,” Gassner told CTV.
The park board has no ability to compel the flag to be removed, as it is protected under freedom of expression.
Recently, other boats at the marina started flying the flag of Ukraine. The single Soviet flag is now surrounded by blue and yellow.
with files from CTV Vancouver
The Holodomor terror famine
the mega death annihilation super evil nightmare Stalin spoon terrorism
The single Soviet flag is now surrounded by blue and yellow.
*I think they meant blonde and blue. hmmm I wonder why Ukraine would choose those two colors for their flag...
“I think a lot of people are very, very offended by this,” said board chair Stuart Mackinnon.
When our turn comes...
pick any random reddit megathread about the war and it looks like 90% of the comments are generated by GPT-2
This whole ordeal proves that the entirety of the US would throw their support behind a fascist coup if a country in the global south achieves socialism
All it would take is a little push from establishment media
This war has sure made a lot of people online pretend to be experts on warfare and give advice that is somehow too simple to actually be useful, and still totally wrong.
Wasn’t that the base that was public information? The one that has a wikipedia page and was on google maps?
Maybe, but my joke was that they can't seem to stop poostin their loocatioin
Kremlin reacts to Biden’s harsh statement about Putin: "Given the irritability of Mr. Biden, his fatigue & sometimes forgetfulness, this leads to aggressive statements. We will not get into sharp assessments so as not to cause more aggression.”
lmao
Anybody outside of the US/UK, I need a sanity check: everybody else around the world knows that Biden is a feckless old man yelling at clouds and forgetting that he's president, right? They aren't fooled by any American propaganda that he's strong and knows what he's doing, right? Because the Kremlin clearly knows but I'm not sure how many American brainworms people have outside the imperial core.
Officially this is not discussed in Danish media, and from talking to the average Dane, they are firmly behind Biden and support him. I have no idea why, other than the fact that he isn't Trump, who was genuinely disliked. I've attempted to talk to a few other people who said they enjoyed following American politics, and most of them seemed to acknowledge that he was old, and likely losing his mind, but that at the current point in time he was just fine.
I dont think he’s any less coherent than on average for his age. Same with trump. They both probably have early stages of cognitive decline.
I think Brandon actually is holding his own in keeping the rabid losers around him in the state department and military from escalating this.
He has agency, and also is responsible for all the ghoulish shit like funding the police and back to the office rhetoric
He has his moments in both directions but nowhere near as clear as like 20 years ago.
It's probably kind of easier to think "This is one particularly fucked up guy in charge of stuff" rather than "Oh this is what most of them are like they just dont have a camera on them often enough or no one cares when they have old age moments".
In Denmark the political elite typically adopts democrat party variants of American brainworms and you'll not have to look long for statements praising Biden while there's far between the less impressed assessments of him and the US in mainstream media. Anti-americanism is not something the responsible adults in the room does. America might have made mistakes but they are essentially good, they're fighting for democracy and human rights and you can count on them telling the truth. Also, we owe them our loyalty and admiration for saving us from the Germans and Soviets in WWII and from the Soviets once more during the cold war.
If you ask ordinary people though they can clearly see that his brain is not firing on all cylinders and the most common assessment of him is "he's too old".
A British father who travelled to Ukraine to 'join the resistance' against Russia has fled back to the UK. Ben Spann, 36, returned to the UK after becoming worried he had joined a 'suicide mission'. He spent five days in a safe house in western Ukraine with four former British soldiers before deciding it was an 'absolute nightmare' and fleeing back to the UK.
- Sky News UK :ukkk:
Ya know, I really shouldn't be reading this at 10 AM while at work. Especially not since this is so blood-churning that I have to bite my lips not to scream and start planning adventurism.
I should have taken your warning not to look. God fucking damn it. When it is our turn, journalists will not be spared from the terror.
Western journalists are propagandists, not journalists
@CARCOSA you should add this to the westoid racism list if you haven't already
The west must be seething at the fact the Ruble stabilized
The great de-coupling is upon us
Massive cope. Russia can only endure this short term. They will have been set back like 10 years economically once this is over. And effective coutersanctions will only strain their purse even further.
after losing like most its value. like, they got what they wanted
