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
( the institute for understanding war link being a neocon American exceptionalism plaything from the kagan family)
Resource for unedited RusFed/Ukraine press conferences/speeches
https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCo-P9gyWGjOkdquRBt0zowQ/videos
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
The entire Squad - @AOC, @IlhanMN, and company – along with @RoKhanna and every Democrat in the House, voted in favor of the massive lend-lease arms shipment to Ukraine, which is designed to escalate the war.
All ten votes against were by Republicans.
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1520495981833469953
:amerikkka:
They would have voted for this if Trump was president too. "Glad he's finally standing up to Putin."
I do wonder if the Republicans are going to aim for a less interventionist foreign policy and focus more on domestic control alongside Monroe Doctrine foreign policy.
The Republicans want China. The Democrats want Russia. It's not a matter of interventionism vs. non-interventionism, but instead squabbling over who should the primary target of interventionism be.
That much is clear, but I meant more in the next 20 years or so. There could be a new crop of Republicans that fully believed the anti-interventionist rhetorics Republican politicians use even if they never actually meant it, instead opting for regional and domestic control. But it's always impossible to predict these things.
Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.
Individual succdem organisations and people can be well-meaning and friendly and genuinely believe they're on the right side but when shit hits the fan they will side with fascists.
We are considering switching from these explicitly Ukraine/Russia focussed megathreads to new discussion posts/megathreads that are centered on my daily updates, which will continue as they have always been - focussed on the war, but also considering other parts of the world (and you can obviously comment what you want on them, same as on here, they don't have to only be what I've said).
If you DO want this to happen, then upbear this comment. If you DON'T want this to happen and want the megathreads in their current form to continue, then upbear my reply comment.
For what it's worth, the post is always pinned to the top of !news@hexbear.net, even if it's not featured site-wide. We can only feature two posts at a time, so it can't always be up there.
There’s no way that’s going have as much engagement. Including a link in mega thread post won’t work because it is always a cluttered mess with the emojis. I habitually ignore it myself and I’d guess plenty of others would as well. If a third pin can’t be added to the main page, just have the second pin be a clean short list link collection (Current featured posts, or something like that).
In retrospect, I should have also asked what people thought could be improved (megathread, my posts, anything) and also realized that some people would probably vote for both, but alas, I have made my bed and now I'm lying in it.
I really just wish your update comments could just be pinned as the top comment in the thread
I find your posts and the megathread as they are extremely useful. Your posts weave a web of all the international events going on and the mega thread allows us to discuss how it is all being effected by the war and vis versa. (How you get all the links for your posts is slightly confusing though. When do you sleep?)
How you get all the links for your posts is slightly confusing though.
RSS feeds, a $12 per month subscription to make it possible to go through 24 hours worth of ~40 media sites' content in 2-3 hours, and some good background music.
When do you sleep?
:side-eye-1: :side-eye-2:
:hero-of-socialist-labor: :order-of-lenin:
You should have some sort of donation link set up, that's a lot of work.
Since it's hosted on Gitea, we could absolutely open it up to other collaborators via pull requests
I agree, it feels like a lot for one person to do for free when news websites just have some aggregator robot do this stuff.
I do, but I find it a bit odd that we have a news aggregation megathread on a news aggregation site (or at least, that's what Reddit was supposed to be, which this site copies it's format from).
It keeps the number of posts down and allows a continuous discussion of the overlying topic. It makes sense to me.
I've seen this done on Lemmy where it's split up and the end result is you have an avg of 0 comments per thread. It's visually overwhelming and ironically discourages participation.
MoA does similar aggregate posts to these.
In general I think it makes sense to have a more 'serious' news focused megathread alongside the usual casual conversation type one.
My coworkers were sad because apparently the Ghost of Kiev died and I had to keep from laughing at them.
They're literally rebranding the whole things as "Spirit of Kyiv" as we speak, now it's supposed to represent the entire Ukrainian air force as whole
Ooof. I don't want to even imagine having to chit chat with my coworkers about Ukraine. :reddit-logo: is bad enough for my mental health. Anything you say that isn't 100% toeing the line is down voted to oblivion. It's like I'm that lady in invasion of the body snatchers and all of Reddit is Donald Sutherland.
I usually think I'm what's-his-actor from They Live and everyone else is my platonic black male friend beating me up because I tried to give them the sunglasses.
That still stands out as one of the best fight scenes in cinema history.
It's called keif and smoking it feels good :stalin-smokin:
In Novaya Kakhovka, the monument to Lenin, which the Ukrainian nationalists demolished in 2014, was returned to its former place. The locals managed to save the sculpture. All eight years they hid her under an awning in one of the collective farms.
https://twitter.com/bigrussianshop/status/1520559265320259584
You love to see it. :lenin-fancy:
RIP to the Ghost of Kiev, snapped his neck while attempting to suck his own dick ✊️😔
Reports indicate he'll have to suck his dick with a straw during his recovery
RIP to the Ghost of Kiev; Got got by the sudden inexplicable pilot death feature plaguing lend-lease F35s.
Just a personal anecdote from interacting with my relatives yesterday, here in Belarus.
Met with my sister who lives in Lithuania with her husbo and kids. They were stuck there because of covid for a while but Belarus has introduced a visa-free regime for Lithuanians and Latvians recently, for at least a month, so they came over to see ppl for the weekend. They said Lithuania is chock full of Ukraine flags, "Russians are in hiding" (Lithuania is full of Russian speakers and Russia sympathizers) and they were surprised how "calm" Belarus was in that regard.
It's true, there are no Ukraine-flag marches here, and no flash-mobs and such that you see in the media all over the EU, everyone's just going about their day. There was a pro-Russia march the other day in the capitol but it was quite small. My hunch is that maybe 30% here are staunchly pro-Ukraine, 30% pro-Russia and the rest either don't care or don't know what to think, but I'm pulling that out of my ass based on some very disparate research.
Anyway. Sister and kids decided to stay for another week , even though they weren't planning to, because the "calm." Husbo brought a jerry-can to stock up on much cheaper gas. Mind you, both of them are very much pro-Ukraine since they read the western news. It's an informational war after all. Propaganda here in Belarus tells a different story, which is also normal. But I guess it was a devious move by the "last dictator of Europe" to let Latvians and Lithuanians in, visa-free so they can buy much cheaper gas, salt and food and see it's not this insane whatever that they've been told.
On the other hand. I have a distant relative in the depths of Russia, who is very patriotic. Their mum lives here in Belarus, so they come over every summer. They are not coming this year because they think Belarus is about to get bombed. This is not my analysis (but they also have kids, so it's ok to be over cautious), but just goes on to show how fucking complicated this shit is compared to one dimensional insane stories one hears on whichever state's tv.
I'm just a bit tired personally. Sometimes giddy, sometimes doomer, always insane. Love yall XX
A video on Telegram shows wives and mothers of forcibly conscripted Ukrainian men protesting in front of a military enlistment office in Transcarpathia. The English text is a little confusing but it seems like the women were demanding to know the whereabouts of their loved ones, were protesting that they were not receiving proper training and equipment and were demanding their release. When the Ukrainian authorities refused to engage with the women, they started breaking windows and attacking the building.
NATO propaganda doesn't talk about it but by now lots of Ukrainians must be sick and tired of this war, and sick and tired of seeing their loved ones getting fed into a meat grinder for no good reason.
It synchs up in a bad way with all the videos from Russian telegram claiming that the Ukrainians are just leaving their dead in the field
Stop watching that stuff. All you'll get for your troubles is PTSD.
For real, I went on a shock/death video binge a few months ago and in the moment it felt exciting and interesting and i thought "haha yeah im so hardcore this shit doesnt affect me"
but it did, especially one combat footage video, it wasn't bad enough that it kept me up at night but i couldn't get it out of my head for weeks. And it wasn't even a particularly gruesome one, it was "just" a soldier getting shot in the head during combat, it wasn't some kind of atrocity or gore, but it just stuck with me.
20 years ago, some kid in my highschool class had a low-res decapitation video without sound on his laptop. I saw it once and I still remember every single frame of that shit.
I mean, if you're retreating and like... A rocket strike wipes out a unit, are you supposed to try to find the nearest forces to recover the bodies? How are you even going to find out; their radios might have just been damaged
Exactly. People pretend like the heroic, valiant Ukrainians are fighting for their country because of glorious national pride or some shit, as if a mother with 3 kids hiding in the Azovstal bunker in Mariupol chose to be there.
Ukrainian men are getting forcibly conscripted and aren't allowed to leave the country. Nationalist militants hide behind civilians so Russia can't just bomb them out of existence. Zelenskyy keeps the war going because he thinks he will finally get to join the cool kids table.
Ukrainians fight because they will get arrested or likely worse if they don't, they have exactly 0 say in the matter.
Brave men want to defend their homes against evil orcs
It's literally illegal for fighting age males to leave
I, a liberal, see not a single contradiction.
Kiev exports grain to Europe in exchange for weapons
Ukrainian authorities have shipped 20 million tonnes of grain crops and farm animals to Romania amid food shortages, receiving foreign weapons and ammunition in return, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, told reporters on Saturday.
Mizintsev stressed that "this is happening amid an acute shortage of foodstuffs for their own population, as well as the lack of crops in most Ukrainian regions for the spring sowing campaign.".
You can't literally eat bullets.
except when a famine occurred, the politburo under Stalin gutted food and seed grain exports to alleviate starvation and boost agricultural production.
I highly doubt the current maidan government would do the same.
But you see: Georgian Soviet man bad, Ukrainian NATO running dog good.
I just got some flour at a mere 5 cent markup compared to prewar :party-blob:
Rehearsal for the Russian May 9th victory day parade today. T-34s with blank red banners on them. Victory over fascism was the purpose of the original may 9th parade. Victory for communism. Now the symbols are gone, and the ideology with it. It’s victory for the sake of victory. A dead, soulless husk of a celebration
that's fair I can't speak towards russian perception. It is weird seeing a capitalist regime using watered down communist aesthetics though.
Sure, but it’s closer than it has been for 30 years and it’s going in the right direction and fighting on behalf of anti-imperialism
but it’s closer than it has been for 30 years
That's an incredibly low bar, and also isn't true. There was a better chance in the 90s when things were totally unstable and Yeltsin could have been toppled.
There won't be a communist Russia with Putin in power, and even without him the CPRF is a disaster with a lot of things to sort out before they could even do a half-decent job.
maybe they are just waiting till the day of to put them on as a happy surprise. :)
i'm surprised they even have red flags, i don't think this was the case last year
edit: nvm this one's from 2021
I just checked. In 2021 the T-34 column was led by a tank with a red flag and a yellow star in the middle (historical unit insignia maybe?). In 2020 it was the Victory Banner (I think), then that unit flag.
Either way, it seems a bit premature to assume that they've canned the Victory Banner this year based on the rehearsal.
Yea, still though they've been moving from Soviet symbolism to Russian symbolism.
They didn't use to hide Lenin's Masoleum for instance.
Thanks to some reinforcement from the admins, my protracted people's war with the character limit for my updates has been indefinitely postponed, with the introduction of https://bulletins.hexbear.net/
The latest update is on there. We're also working on putting the previous ones on. And I might start putting images on there too, if I find any that are useful (not photos of combat, of course).
Enjoy!
i wonder if the Soviet union had a medal for the 20th century equivalent of posting
It doesn’t help that China is hoarding key food products, stockpiling corn and wheat to safeguard its own population
No you can't just safeguard your population! You have to participate in the market! Don't you like efficiency???!!
selling your grain on the market to get money that you can buy grain with to then sell on the market for slightly more so you can arbitrage it further and take an IMF loan so you can privatize more agricultural sectors so you can further capitalize on your grain exports whoops 10 million people have died :posadist-nuke:
another 10 million added to the communism death toll :sadness-abysmal:
Around 100 civilians leave Azovstal, heading to Zaporozhye, says Zelensky
You mean they could have done that the whole time? I am shocked!
Police in AES countries are kinda different but yeah, it does feel weird
Vietnam's police uniforms are really cool though
Don’t let pig in Amerikkka distorted your view on police. Police in AES country generally more reasonable and not going to shoot you on sight
It's interesting how western sources are simultaneously saying that Russia's losses are catastrophic on the eastern front, which would naturally mean that Russia would go for peace soon, but also that the war will last for many more months or even years
Russia is losing the war badly in Ukraine which is why we need to stop them from taking over all of Europe
Russia's army is faltering and dysfunctional but also if we don't go to war with Russia they will conquer all of Europe and resurrect the Soviet Union
:parenti:
The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War
I don't think you can "win" a nuclear war.
The reality is that unless the U.S. prepares to win a nuclear war, it risks losing one.
...yes...
Mr. Putin had two objectives in going to war. First, he hoped to destroy Ukraine as an independent state.
No he didn't.
Russia planned to drive into Kyiv within hours, install a quisling government, and months later stage referendums throughout the country that would give the Kremlin direct control of its east and south.
No he didn't.
Aleksandr Lukashenko’s Belarus, and perhaps the Central Asian despots, would fall in line. Mr. Putin would therefore reconstitute an empire stretching to the Polish border.
No he wouldn't have.
Ukrainians thwarted that plan. Much depends on the next few weeks, as Russia stages a major offensive in the east designed to destroy the Ukrainian military’s immediate combat capacity, tear off eastern provinces, and solidify a land corridor to Crimea. But there is a serious possibility that Ukraine wins this next round of fighting. Russia has no reserves beyond its mobilized forces; its units have dwindling morale; and those formations withdrawn from around Kyiv are trained to conduct armored, mechanized, and infantry operations and poorly suited for combat. Meantime, the Ukrainians are receiving heavier weapons from the West and have begun a counteroffensive around Kharkiv, which, if successful, will spoil Russia’s attack.
If Russia’s military situation appears dire, Mr. Putin has a dual incentive to use nuclear weapons.
Perhaps a conventional response to a Russian nuclear attack would be sufficient. What if the U.S. and its allies destroyed Russian military units deployed to the Black Sea, Syria and Libya; cut all oil pipelines to Russia, and used their economic clout to threaten China, and other states conducting business with Russia, with an embargo?
The world would be cinder before you could send the order.
Most critically, if Russia used a nuclear weapon, the U.S. could use its naval power to hunt down and destroy a Russian nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine, the backbone of Russian second-strike capability.
Russia has unstoppable hypersonic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. What the fuck are you talking about?
A nuclear war should never be fought. But the Kremlin seems willing to fight one, at least a limited one. If the U.S. demonstrates it is unwilling to do so, the chance that the Kremlin will use nuclear weapons becomes dangerously real.
YOU ARE THE ONLY COUNTRY TO DROP NUKES ON ANOTHER COUNTRY IN WARTIME.
Most critically, if Russia used a nuclear weapon, the U.S. could use its naval power to hunt down and destroy a Russian nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine, the backbone of Russian second-strike capability.
The funny part about this is that this masquerades as "analysis" when it is the most obvious and trivial thing imaginable.
"Ah yes in time of nuclear war your navy should hunt their nuclear launching submarines, yes of course they could do that or they could all go fuck themselves drunk on the base watching Independence day II or Pearl Harbor while cosplaying as some pedophiles and raping teenage Japanese girls. Yes I suggest they could indeed go after their subs." :very-smart:
I don't know how to express but this seems tailor made to some random lib that literaly doesn't know anything about war or military but feels "intellectual" when he reads the most barebones and obvious stuff.
"Ah yes I understand war now, it seems when war navy fights enemy navy... Yes I wonder what will happen to big Russian planes? I guess airforce will fight airforce?" :blob-no-thoughts:
"Brah, you can easily win a nuclear war brah. Just nuke them before they nuke you, brah."
Awesome watching a whole new generation of journalists rediscover MAD.
What if the U.S. and its allies destroyed Russian military units deployed to the Black Sea, Syria and Libya; cut all oil pipelines to Russia, and used their economic clout to threaten China, and other states conducting business with Russia, with an embargo?
My brother in Christ, do you remember what happened the last time America tried to wage economic warfare against China?
Yeah, but this time they're threatening our strategic Ape reserve. The stakes are so much higher.
China might have all the industry and Russia might have the natural resources but all their factories and mines grinds to a halt one the essential supply of American financial derivatives and branding expertise stops.
It really does seem to be like that. The people in power have acted for thirty years like the end of history was a real thing and their absolute dominance was self-justifying and self-enacting and now they're trying to dictate terms when the only thing their country produces is rent seekers.
But what is the point of all the resources and industry if they're not being used to make the next Marvel movie?
Opinion editorial becomes more unhinged and divorced from reality by the day. They must just put out a writing prompt "write something crazy that could start nuclear war, like pretend you're 10 and putler took your juice box "
"journalist": we must show Putin we are ready to all die in a world ending nuclear exchange! :fedposting:
This fucking boomer was born in 1948, he grew up during the Cold War and he doesn't know about MAD or how nukes work
:horror:
Russia has no reserves beyond its mobilized forces; its units have dwindling morale; and those formations withdrawn from around Kyiv are trained to conduct armored, mechanized, and infantry operations and poorly suited for combat. Meantime, the Ukrainians are receiving heavier weapons from the West and have begun a counteroffensive around Kharkiv, which, if successful, will spoil Russia’s attack.
Ah yes, if the situation is so bad for the russians who are still dictating the pace of the war, what remains for the Ukrainians? Let's recap, their military bases, ammo depots, fuel depots, airbases, manpower gathering areas and various units are under constant shelling, they lost a fuckton of bases to simple Kalibr or Iskander missile strikes. It feels like it's them who have no reserves left... the russians despite their insanely bad logistics (evident in the first days of the war) still have the upper hand and I don't see the Ukrainians staging a Battle of Moscow-like counteroffensive to drive the russians off. Can they even launch something bigger than a small and local counterattack? they basically depend on the russians just bailing out of an area for logistical problems and (credit to where credit is due) strong resistence, but staying on the defensive is easy.. going on the offensive is something else.
Eh, I feel like westerners kinda forgot what a war between two developed countries really is. After all, they've been cheering for their side as they relentlessly bombed countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and so on, for years and without much opposition tbh. Their image of war is completely corrupted by what the US has done in Iraq or NATO in Lybia, "quick and decisive" strikes to destroy a big army armed with old soviet era tech from the 50s and 60s, without proper air support and/or air defenses, with a chain of command that basically is "the cousin of Saddam is now the Chief of Staff because family"....
so, by liberal logic, shouldn't the real heroes in this conflict be the Donbas separatists?