Thank you @SeventyTwoTrillion for all your effort. :sankara-salute:
If you have any useful resource links please tag me in a comment with the link:
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list 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/
Others:
http://thesaker.is/. (Right wing pro Russian , little unhinged about covid , but interesting war analysis, gets quoted by naked capitalism )
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-conflict-updates
Twitter military updaters:
https://nitter.42l.fr/RWApodcast
https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary :kitty-cri:
https://nitter.42l.fr/ArmchairW
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
Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413
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
My dad who is normally fairly good with understanding current events described the war as “horrific - smashing the country to bits for the hell of it, it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before”. It’s amazing how effective the media has been at erasing any geopolitical explanation for the war and ensuring that people only hear “evil Russia doing a bloodsport adventurism”. Especially as my dad has in the past vilified the press for their bias against Corbyn, etc., and how pro-Tory they are.
My parents didn’t like me pointing out that Iraq was far worse, naturally.
...as you say, Iraq, but also Vietnam and Korea, and probably others I'm forgetting. Imperial Japan I guess but that's a little more iffy due to the whole WW2 zeitgeist, unless you're talking about the nuclear bombs being dropped on them, which was unjustifiable
Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Panama….the list goes on and on. The reaction to bringing such things up is one of “two wrongs don’t make a right”, which is my exact point - but somehow it’s interpreted as a pro-Putin view! Any attempt to contextualize the imperial actions of Russia against the recent past of Western imperialism is only seen as defence of Russia. This is perhaps the most maddening effect of the media coverage - that it is not morally permissible to seek understanding beyond “Russian mad man gone wild”. That one can’t discuss these things materially, in relation to (and as a cause of) Western imperial bloodlust.