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

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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.

Last week's discussion post.

  • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    https://archive.ph/jFkbd This article made me want to puke. Specially with all the stuff I'm learning about North Korea. Jesus christ.

    • A_Serbian_Milf [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      This is causing psychic damage. It’s not even a simulated military wargame, they are literally usings d20s and a hex map. This is boardgamebrain gone rogue, someone who played a little too much map games thinking they can predict the future with this arbitrary imaginary bullshit, and the US will probably commit $40 billion to funding this war because of the outcome of this game

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Despite horrific losses in ships, aircraft and personnel, American forces bomb Chinese ports, eliminate the picket line of ships and successfully attack Beijing’s weak spot—the amphibious ships its needs to ferry troops and supplies to Taiwan.

      even in their warhammer 2027 game where china could never be allowed to win the west takes "horrific losses"

      anyway time to send another undead lich from our gerontocracy over to formosa to stir up the communists

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      A war game played at a think tank? This is so incredibly blatant, honestly sounds like cliche but these stupid fucks will literaly do anything to create a narrative.

      It is extremely important to note that now if you google "US vs China war game" this article will be at the top, instead of the previous article about the previous war game they lost below.

      If you are not aware there was a pretty infamous war game a few years back where the US lost horribly

      "An aggressive red team that had been studying the United States for the last 20 years just ran rings around us," the general said, according to Defense News. "They knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it, and they took advantage of it."

      "Imagine what our actual competitors have been doing for the last 20 years, with probably even more focus, with larger numbers," he continued. "So we had to take a step back and look broadly and say: 'OK, what did we miss?'"

      During the simulated armed conflict held in October, which Defense News described as "a fictional confrontation with China" and a defense official told Defense One involved a battle over Taiwan, the imaginary enemy upended the blue team's "information dominance" strategy.

      Hyten said the US forces attempted to establish information dominance, "just like it was in the first Gulf War, just like it has been for the last 20 years, just like everybody in the world, including China and Russia, have watched us do for the last 30 years."

      Conveniently now that war is more likely and you need the narrative to change, now the US is miraculously winning, funny how that works. Now when you google US war game you get a nice and warm article about the US winning a heroic victory against China.

      You know I wish the Pentagon actually dropped everything and started listening to those morons lol. Actual active military personal, actual teams with strategies?

      Nah war is now a game played by fucking boomers at a think tank with a WSJ journalist conveniently watching you, all you need is a d20 and a computer for """"simulations"""" rofl. You couldn't make a more accurate metaphor anyway.

      • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Lmao, first the millennium challenge, now this? The US loves to create fictional scenarios to get its ass beaten

    • Fartbutt420 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This is the dumbest thing, like just absolutely untethered from reality.

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      considering that the US needs to completely defang their opfor in their wargames to win
      this is incredible cope lmao

      • AmericaDelendeEst [any]
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        2 years ago

        all of those sound like awful places to survive climate change, I'm pretty sure random military bozos aren't a metric to decide where it will be survivable

        • TechnologyMoth [comrade/them,any]
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          2 years ago

          Why? Mountain ranges = rainwater = rivers, fat critters, big game, out of the way of the major highways so less hoards of starving people trying to outrun hurricanes, flooding, heatwaves.

          About 10 years ago after learning that humanity will not survive climate change, I picked the northwest territories of canada as the best place to be in this hemisphere. It's too late for me now, I will likely die fighting random civilians for basic resources because I would rather have my treats than establishing a homestead for the next decade as the climate slowly eats me alive.

          The military higher-ups absolutely know climate change is going to fuck things up, and they definitely tell their "good boys" where to retire.

        • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          As I've come to accept that I'm stuck in America, I've been sporadically looking into its most survivable places for years. It really seems like the Great Lakes region will be the least fucked over. Northern New England might do okay, and the PNW will be easily survivable until it very much isn't.