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

Add to the above list if you can, thank you.

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.

Yesterday's discussion post.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    I mean the crusades really weren't Genocide. There were a lot of massacres but there was also a lot of cooperation, trade, intermarriage, and cultural exchange. And the different crusades had different degrees of actual military conflict. Brutal? Yes. But not genocide. My understanding is that at least for the first and second crusade Muslims in the Levant viewed it as just another war.

    • jackmarxist [any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      I was talking about the 2001 shit-show and not the old crusades.

    • wrecker_vs_dracula [comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Just today I read the following in Peter Frankopan's "Silk Roads":

      When the walls of the city were finally breached after a six-week siege, the attackers were primed to shed blood. As one who witnessed the carnage that followed put it, Jerusalem was soon filled with dead bodies, corpses piled up “on mounds as big as houses outside the city gates. No one has ever heard of such a slaughter.” “If you had been there,” wrote another author a few years later, “your feet would have been stained to the ankles with the blood of the slain. What shall I say? None of them were left alive. Neither women nor children were spared.”

      I am becoming disillusioned about the term "genocide". It is perhaps the greatest crime that we have a word for -for which there exists a convenient shorthand. Are there other crimes of equal or greater severity for which we have yet to categorize? Why specifically do we have this concept of genocide around the extermination of people grouped together by ethnicity, but not analogous concepts for groupings by ideology, political affinity, economic class, occupation, or geographic location? Is this because attacks on ethnic groups are more common historically than attacks on other sets of people? Or is it because we value ethnic connections over all others?

      I agree the crusades do not meet the definition of genocide, but this acknowledgement feels somehow dismissive.