I don’t mind the occassional memes dunking on Al-Ukraina and the Imperialist West and the occassional snippets calling out western hypocrisy and showing the barbarianism Ukrainian Civilians are facing from their own military forces; but I’m not interested in hearing about your oh-so-hot-takes on LGBT issues and using it as a way to flex your “morality” to the world. I’m sick of it already.

  • EnchantedWhetstones
    16·
    2 years ago

    https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/

    Ben Norton’s site. You want people who approach this from an anti-NATO perspective. People who know their history and want to dismantle monetary imperialism.

    The way I look at it, Russia got cornered into doing something based. We wouldn’t roll our eyes during WWII and scold people for saying Hitler is bad, because France etc is imperialist. DPR & LPR are fighting for national liberation.

    Danny Haiphong seems to interview everyone mentioned in this thread lately. He’s had Carl Zha & the New Atlas guy on, two of my other faves.

    • Kaffe
      12·
      2 years ago

      Donbas Devushka is also transphobic. She purposefully mis-gendered a few trans US military personnel.

      • StugStig
        6·
        2 years ago

        Sorry I didn’t know, should I remove the links?

        • Kaffe
          15·
          2 years ago

          Since OP said:

          I’m not interested in hearing about your oh-so-hot-takes on LGBT issues and using it as a way to flex your “morality” to the world. I’m sick of it already.

          I’d say DD is not worth following. At best she’s doing the perfectly Liberal thing where it’s okay to be racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic to someone who is “evil”. Liberals are unequipped to uphold anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, and anti-transphobia because all of these hateful ideologies are expressed through Liberalism and protected by it.

          MFs like DD need Marxism

    • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]OP
      8·
      2 years ago

      The RWApodcast and their twitter - They’re right wing and anti-USSR but they usually keep on topic instead of stoking a culture war.

      context

      >me waiting for when it finally devolves to social reactionary nonsense, it's a right wing podcast/twitter, it's bound to happen

      Anyway, thank you for the links! damn their videos are very long

    • Lemmy_Mouse
      2·
      2 years ago

      This is what I use. It’s a great place to speak with actual Russians and natives of the post-soviet space and in their own social space. Here in the west, one is expected to conform to western social practices, this is not so on Telegram. It is as speaking over the phone with someone in a different environment from yourself and all of the implications which follow. I’ve learned a lot about other countries, their peoples, and their history from using Telegram and speaking with the horse’s mouth.

    • StugStig
      14·
      2 years ago

      It doesn’t really change after the war. Outside of what David M. Glantz wrote, there’s a reason why most English language books on the Eastern Front/Great Patriotic War are based solely on German sources.

      It will be a long long time before the documents from both sides become available for analysis like Tank-Artchive’s cross-examination, which is looks at the same battle from both sides to prove or disprove claims, to be made.

      Even today most of what written on the Iraq war is just blatant up US propaganda. It’s almost like they’re actively avoiding using neutral language or attempting to sound objective. No fact is framed in a way that doesn’t attempt to manipulate the reader’s opinion. If it even uses Iraqi sources it’s going to be someone explicitly chosen to be an anti-Saddam Sunni, no Baathis, nor Pro-Iran Shias.

      I prefer to just read books by people the who were directly involved in the war and primary documents. A collection of interviews like the works of Artem Drabkin or a memoir like “Tiger’s in the Mud”, “Singapore: the Japanese Version”.

    • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]OP
      8·
      2 years ago

      I suppose you could also listen from both sides, mix them together and come up with your own conclusion from the mixture. I’ve seen someone on the 'net suggest it once.

  • aleshasmiles
    31·
    2 years ago

    Breakthrough News and Liberation News are great sources