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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/ :kitty-cri-texas:
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
Bernie just said on his live stream that Russia has been an authoritarian country “since forever”, but “eased up under Gorbachev and Yeltsin”
:flattened-bernie:
I immediately stopped watching lmfao
US officially declaring Russia of war crimes is pretty funny
No doubt in my mind that they committed some in some form, but this is coming from the country that has been sidestepping international law for decades :who-did-this:
They don't even recognize the ICC authority in the first place lol. This is pure cynicism you don't even have to be particularly far left to see the irony.
I swear to god every time I see someone say some fucking shit about how Russians deserve sanctions for their "Inaction", or how Afghanistan deserves to have millions of people starve because the Taliban is misogynistic, I just get this fucking unquenchable urge to write some Modest Proposal shit about how 10% of the population of all NATO aligned countries should be cruficied in public.
The goddamn absolute cruelty western people are prepared to excuse at the drop of a hat, oh my god it makes me so fucking angry.
It's the weirdest thing when in the other breath they talk about how Putin is an unstable maniac who's a threat to us all.
"Why don't you just vote him out bro it's easy!"
Somehow Putin is an entrenched undemocratic autocrat who rules with an iron fist, but also the Russian people should be starved until they vote him out
They think that if the US denies the Russians food and medicine long enough the Russian people will rise up, overthrow Putin, and then come crawling to America, instead of feeling incredibly resentful
The US should know from experience that denying people food and medicine doesn't cause an uprising. In fact they count on that on a daily basis.
Yeah they totally won't realize the necessity of being independent from the west, and hate the west (even more) for their cruel collective punishment
:jokerfication:
When have sanctions alone ever lead to regime change? Chile? South Africa? Both of those had tons of other factors, like labor movements, international solidarity movements, violent radical groups, etc
It's because they've never experienced the pain or suffering of war, this is all hypothetical shit that they benefit from.
The USA exports pain and suffering to other countries and in return they get to loot their coffers for resources and wealth.
While many of you are likely yelling “SLAVA UKRAINI” or “SLAVA RUSSIA!” I’m yelling “SLAVA ROBERT MUELLER and the rule of law!”
:07:
The cheeto in chief better be worried if he gets re-elected, Mueller will be all over his ass! We'll get the second Mueller report and we can finally impeach him once and for all!
It is reported that in Mariupol, DPR forces, with the support of a detachment of the Russian Guard from Chechnya, reached Azovstal, cutting off the base of the Azov regiment from the city center
:youre-laughing:
:you-think-this-is-funny:
:youre-awful:
:fuckin-deserve:
:deserve-1::deserve-2:
:fuck-around:
:jesus-christ: those joker emojis are intense I feel like I’m watching the movie
Uh, sweetie, they're not nazis unless they come from the Berlin area of Germany otherwise it's just sparkling fascism.
«🇨🇳🇺🇸 The representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded that the United States apologize for Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan
Hua Chunying demanded that the United States apologize for the bombing and said that it was not for the United States and NATO to talk about morality:
"The US and NATO are not in a position to judge the moral principles of any country until they apologize and compensate for the damage and suffering they have caused to the peoples of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan," she said.» https://t.me/boris_rozhin/36098
Your daily reminder that Azov is a neo-nazi battalion armed and trained by the United States government. :fedposting:
Just watched the BBC do a bit with just the presenter talking straight into the camera about how Azov are only 1000 people and how that is only a small number of nazis in the country and that they have no power and there are no other nazis, that anything to do with Ukraine and fascism is Russian propaganda. It was a purely propaganda piece.
The media is going to make my blood boil one of these days.
For real though is anyone doing this? I really can't afford to buy any more storage at the moment.
i'm trying to, but I'm also running out of space, and I miss a lot of shit to begin with.
Someone in Russia is doing it, you'll be able to torrent it all on rutracker in a few years but it will require listening to some anime metal to open the file and might install a shibacoin miner.
There's really like a bajillion articles talking about these guys, from Bellingcat to even Ukrainian sources like Zaborona. They kinda just totally toned it down or overlook it since the invasion.
For some reason, Svoboda didn't make the ban list. :thinky-felix:
All this talk about the reddit brigade getting fucking obliterated has got me thinking about how the left would go about forming International Brigades today (in minecraft, of course) without it turning into such a shitshow. I know Rojava’s done it somehow. What are they doing right- and more importantly, what is Ukraine doing wrong?
Rojava had good opsec. The Kurds aren't stupid or suicidal, and IIRC they stopped taking foreign volunteers when they started becoming a headache.
Listen to Brace talk about it lol
Not uploading everything to the internet like fucking losers is a start. OPSEC is literally the difference.
Also everyone going to Rojava is doing so to go and participate in an actual war, not to go and earn internet clout.
being completely offline is better because your phones are constantly pinging their signal, revealing your location and your phone's info to anyone that's looking for info. Literally same opsec that professional protest enjoyers do when they don't want the cops kicking in their doors.
Even the historical international brigades practiced some opsec and general common sense, you didn't just go and join. You were vetted by your local section of the Communist party, the international organized them and sent them out. Of course today's adhoc foreign legions just get instantly obliterated, there's no discipline and there's no wider movement helping to organize things it's just a sea of individuals trying to purge their own senses of alienation from being lotus-eaters in the treat-laden west. Even back in the 30s with an honest to god disciplined international organization with powerful nation state backing, things broke down.
Modern international brigades would need months of political education and cadre training just to get people on-board with the basics of internationalist socialism never mind weapons and physical training. Or we could hope the PSL (or equivalent) sponsoring you counts enough for political training. You'd have to cut people off from the internet and not let them use cellphones to call home at all - I honestly think modern undisciplined westerners of today would be unable to cope with what it would take. They'd only be allowed to contact home from the one phone or write a letter once a month.
Modern Ukraine's foreign legion was a meme they shrugged their shoulders at and said "yeah sure." They didn't organize it, the people coming in didn't organize anything, the nation states people were coming from disavowed it and didn't help organize it, they just showed up and some batshit midlevel Ukrainian officers with fantasies of Enemy At The Gate (who they wouldn't let near the regular army) were put in charge of this band of losers and turning them into a brigade. The YPG had a reason to accept international brigades based in theory and had a disciplined training program to onboard new fighters, and they didn't just take anyone with a pulse.
Because chuds think they can be an army of one if they have enough tacticool gear. What really makes an army work is if you can count on your comrades to cover your back.
Didn't they also eventually say, "Come volunteer for non-military roles," because they were getting too many CHUDs?
Also because they had a greater need for engineers than untrained soldiers.
they have the mountains and decades of experience gorilla fighting and training there. its not really comparable to the current situation in a number of ways.
if you remove the space between the emotes it will look like one big picture
idk either, It totally missed me my whole life, seems cool I guess?
This whole war thing sucks, but at least all those foreign volunteers are getting merc'd. The foreign legion is way more effective than my previous plan of putting a "free child porn" sign over a pitfall trap
Really hope this ends soon
:doomjak: :sadness-abysmal:
93% of Ukrainians think they'll win, (google translate version of the page) with just under half (47%) think they'll win "in the next few weeks." 0% think that "no victory is possible" - which I guess I could see, hope springs eternal. There's 0 chance they'll be cool with a peace treaty that recognizes the independence of LPR, DPR and recognizes Russian sovereignty over Crimea - and since Zelenskyy has apparently promised any peace treaty has to be ratified by referendum I don't think we'll see peace for a LONG time in Ukraine unless Ukranian leadership reneges on the referendum pledge.
I'm sure all the civilians who are either hiding in basements or somehow got out of the country were polled.
"74% support Zelensky's direct talks with Putin on ending the war, a quarter do not. Slightly more supporters of direct talks in the South and East, but in other regions as well, the majority. "
I guess it depends on what each individual Ukrainian thinks "winning" is then, because if most of them support Zelensky trying to end the war via talks, then they clearly aren't thinking that he's gonna roll back the Russian forces to the border and win that way.
"Almost nothing has changed [in terms of Ukrainian's favorability towards these nations since the war began] - to Germany, Hungary, Georgia."
lmao, get fucked germany
also:
"Audience: the population of Ukraine aged 18 and older in all oblasts, except for the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas. The sample is representative by age, sex and type of settlement. Sample population: 1000 respondents. Survey method: CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews). Error of representativeness of the study with a confidence level of 0.95: not more than 3.1%. Dates: March 18, 2022 "
A bit sus. Of course if you exclude the most pro-Russian parts of the country, you get these results. And I also don't know if I like telephone interviews as a polling method but whatever. Hell, it feels a bit weird to even be doing polls when, like, your country is actively being occupied, but I guess it's somewhat useful information.
The propaganda machine is strong, much stronger than expected.
How was this poll done? Was it just asked of Ukrainian's still in the country? Because propaganda and nationalism is definitely powerful, but I also wonder about the makeup of the people who stayed rather than fled (although obviously I know plenty of people couldn't too).
It says that it was performed in all oblasts except Crimea and Donbas, so I'm assuming it's the people who stayed.
Russia seemingly gave 6 hours for mariupol to surrender, and will go full tilt after :sadness-abysmal: fuck me
According to who? Why would they slow roll things for so long only to glass the city now?
Also, exactly when is time up, so I can keep my eye on it
Something like half of Mariupol has already been captured by Russia, if they decided not to care about civilian casualties they could take the rest in hours
Midnight local timeYea, the last source said 70%, this is the last ultimatum before liquidate the rest
Yeah, Russian sources are claiming 70% control and there's lots of reports (and seemingly some video) of Azov etc firing from upper floors of residential buildings etc.
I'm guessing this is a "last chance or shelling apartment blocks is on you" type ultimatum.
Which is obviously grim, but I don't see how it could go any other way given Azov's tactic of using civilian buildings and people as shields, and basically no chance they'll surrender.
Mariupol is bigger than Fallujah, with more defenders, with real actual weapons of war. Given the size of the Russian force, there's no way they are going to take it within a month without kettling the defenders into a smaller and smaller area, and then deleting that area from our plain of existence. The good news is that a lot more people have managed to leave the city over the past week.
Good news is they seem to be cornered in the industrial area of town…
From intelslava, I hope it wouldn’t be cruise missiles to every home, but who knows :sadness-abysmal:
Nah they just said after that they are no longer accepting Azov POWs
