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tomorrowusa · 7 months

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A reality check on the war from Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder.

The bottom line...

"You can't stop the killing by giving up. The only way to stop the killing is to win the war. The only way to end the war is to win the war."

People who urge "compromise" like Elon Musk have probably not been paying attention to Eastern Europe for the past 300 years.

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irithnova · 8 months

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The Russian state using ethnic minorities as cannon fodder - with a focus on Buryats

Article written in 2022, update on the Free Buryatia Foundation in September 2023 given at the end of the post.

Putin announced on October 14th 2022 that by the end of October, his partial mobilisation process would be complete

The recruitment target was 300,000. 222,000 were recruited, and it was claimed that there'd be no more plans for future recruitment

The mobilisation process soaked nation wide outrage which lead to mass protests.

It drew in criticism from some of the Russian political elite

The mobilisation process disproportionately affected ethnic minorities/impoverished regions (many impoverished regions have a high ethnic minority population)

Tuva Republic

Regions that held high populations of ethnic minorities bared the brunt of war-related deaths.

Both Ukrainian media and authorities have levelled accusations at Russian ethnic minorities - that they committed war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine

This accusations was made in May 2022 by Lydmyla Denisova, Ukrainian ombudsman for human rights

Buryats and Chechens were being accused of this

This was a form of scapegoating (not to say they 0 ethnic minorities have committed war crimes in Ukraine of course)

The Free Buryat Foundation investigated this and produced a report that challenged the notion that Buryats were ever sent to Bucha, let alone being responsible for the war crimes committed

Victoria Maladaeva is the vice president of the Free Buryatia Foundation.

She said:

Dagestan, Tuva Republic and Buryatia Republic have the highest death tolls

Moscow, with 17 million, had >50 deaths.

Buryatia with only 980,000 had 364

A Buryat is 7.8 x more likely to die in the war compared to an ethnic Russian.

A Tuvan is 10.4x more likely

The biggest losses were at the beginning of the war and numbers gradually decreased.

Mobilisation was first and foremost carried out in ethnic republics

The day Putin announced this, authorities came to Buryatia at night, went into people's homes and took them from their beds.

No one was given draft notices

They even took men with multiple children, men from the same family

Endangered ethnic groups reside in Dagestan

There are very small communities of those people with populations of around 13,000

Despite this, those minorities were still drafted

There are also very small communities in the Sakha Republic.

They are so remote, helicopters are needed to be called for medical treatment

They almost never come because of how remote these communities are

Funnily enough, helicopters came immediately to draft those people upon Putin's announcement

Putin is a Russian imperialist through and through

None Russians are treated like second class citizens

Russian cultural chauvinism is seen even in small things - such as names

Putin would frequently mispronounce Kazakhstan's president's name. If you have an ethnic Buryat name for example, Russians are reluctant to use it, instead assigning you an "easier" Russian name

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Unfortunately, many of the people of Buryatia believe in the Russian narrative about Nazi ideology in Ukraine

It is one of the missions of the free Buryatia Foundation to help Buryats understand that this is Russian propaganda

The focus on Buryat/ethnic minority war crimes has a racial element

When an ethnic minority commits a war crime, their ethnicity is singled out

It should not matter the ethnicity of a war criminal

78 Buryat soldiers from the 11th air assault brigade were barred from terminating their contract

They were imprisoned in Luhansk.

Only Ilya Kaminskiy returned. The fate of the other men is unknown

The Free Buryatia Foundation knows they cannot help everyone but they do their best. They help people in terminating their contracts for example and have been quite successful in this.

The Free Buryatia Foundation was established to counter Russian propaganda and to protest the war.

People worldwide took an interest to this, so they founded the free Buryatia Foundation.

The Free Buryatia Foundation is the first ethnic anti war organisation in Russia

They aided in founding anti war organisations in other ethnic regions such as Tuva, Kalmykia, Udmurtia, Sakha

Many Buryats fled to Mongolia and Kazakhstan

Some men were able to come back after being drafted, some were not

The economic situation for Buryatia is dire. It ranked 81st out of 85 of Russia's regions when it came to living standards

Buryats had to spend money on a list of supplies for war that Russia did not provide them

Very recently, on September 1st, Russia banned the Free Buryatia Foundation, labelling them as undesirable and anti Russian.

Here is the website for the Free Buryatia Foundation:

And here is where you can donate:

Please spread around or give what you can.

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kafkaesquegf · 1 year

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Hey, everyone. On February 24, 2022, Russia commenced their illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine following six years of conflict between Russian-backed separatist groups and Ukrainian forces in Crimea and Donbas. one year later, the Russian offensive has not stopped, and Ukraine continues to face shelling, rocket fire, and bombardments on both military and civilian infrastructure. the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian people are on the line as Russia descends further and further into fascism and military dictatorship.

Russia has continually used the excuse of “denazification” in Ukraine to justify their criminal and imperialist war in Ukraine. As a Ukrainian-American Jew whose grandparents fled a Ukrainian shtetl in Podillia during the 1920s, I say that this is a disgusting, perverse, and wholly cynical manipulation of Ukrainian-Jewish historical trauma for the gains of an imperialist power. My relationship to Ukrainian nationalism is complex, but I know one thing for sure: Russia doesn’t give a shit about Jews. If they did, they wouldn’t be using the Neo-Nazi-infested Wagner PMC, and they wouldn’t be shelling Jewish heritage sites. Hundreds of years of Jewish culture and history are in danger of destruction by Russian artillery fire. In March of 2022, the memorial at Babyn Yar ravine outside of Kyiv, which was the site of the single largest massacre of Jews during the Holocaust by the Nazis and their collaborators, was hit by Russian artillery.

Russia does not care about Ukrainian Jews. Russia does not want Ukrainian Jews to see themselves as Ukrainian at all; it wants to undo the decades of bridge-building that have taken place between non-Jewish and Jewish communities in Ukraine. In the end, Russia wants to see the complete annihilation of both groups.

To every Ukrainian, Jewish and not, I wish you strength, hope, and courage in the beginning this second year of invasion. And to every Russian government official, vatnik and Z-fascist who supports the war, I wish you nothing more than oblivion.

If you can, please consider donating to the following charities:

Come Back Alive

United24

Ukrainian Recovery Funds

Jewish Relief Network Ukraine

World Jewish Relief

Слава Україні! Нет войне!

#long post but important #war in ukraine #ukraine #invasion of ukraine #stand with ukraine #stop war in ukraine #ukrainian jews #russia is a terrorist state #tal.txt

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strige-art · 9 months

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Not only does he spread lies about a tragedy in a city where thousands of people died under Russian fire, where hospitals and refuge were purposely bombed, children killed or kidnapped. He also had stole another artist work!

This man is not an artist.

I feel sick thinking he's from my same country.

#news #mural #plagiarism #apologist #liar #unethical #invasion of Ukraine #mariupol #it was a genocide #war crimes #children

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greenzaku · 1 year

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Iranians and Ukrainians rallied together in Perth, Western Australia (25 Feb 2023)

Australian indigenous, Polish, Georgian, Taiwanese, as well as opposition Russian and Belarussian peoples and flags were also represented. The rally was for the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. Most of the audio equipment was lent by the local Iranian diaspora.

#russian ukrainian war #Invasion of Ukraine #free iran #feminism #ukraine #iran #iran protests #politics #history #my art

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partisan-by-default · 4 months

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#tankie punks fuck off #propaganda #invasion of ukraine

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herukapadmajungiansworld · 2 years

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#harvest #russia #ukraine #russia invasion world food shortage #russian blockade = world food shortage #ukraine resistance #stolen harvest #kherson #imperialistic theft #world food security #food shortage #i stand with ukraine #russia ukraine war #invasion of ukraine #ukraine war

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ksenka-zarazka · 2 years

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Donetsk banana republic supported by Russia “DNR” sentenced three foreigners that serve in Ukrainian army to death.

Aidan Aslin, from Newark, is an enlisted member of the Ukrainian army, having moved there in 2018.

Shaun Pinner, from Watford, also said he had listed in the Ukrainian marines, a status which should give them both protection under the Geneva Convention.

Saadoune Brahim, from Morocco, came to Ukraine to study at a university but dropped out in order to enlist in Ukrainian army voluntarily.

Rumours are “DNR” wants Britain to officially come there to save its citizens, thus legitimizing the banana republic.

The world is getting tired of this war! And this is exactly what Putin wants! Please do not close your eyes, this is the battle of the entire civilised world against evil!

#aidan aslin #shaun pinner #saadoune brahim #ukrainian army #invasion of ukraine #ukraine resistance #russia ukraine war #ukraine war #war in ukraine #russian war crimes #war #war crimes #save aslin #save pinner #save brahim #genocide of ukrainians #prisoners of war

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nando161mando · 2 months

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Dziś przedstawiamy wam okolicznościowe wideo nagrane z okazji 2 rocznicy pełnowymiarowej inwazji Rosji na Ukrainę. Jeden z naszych anarchistycznych towarzyszy na linii frontu w Ukrainie tłumaczy, co niesie ze sobą rosyjski imperializm i dlaczego walka z nim musi trwać nadal, bo alternatywą jest katastrofa.

Today we present to you a commemorative video recorded on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One of our anarchist comrades on the front line in Ukraine explains what Russian imperialism brings and why the fight against it must continue because the alternative is disaster.

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tomorrowusa · 1 year

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^^^ From @InfoAgeStrategy.

Prof. Fred Hoffman is a retired US Army human intelligence officer and US military attaché in Germany. He served in Germany around the same time Vladimir Putin was a lieutenant colonel in the KGB stationed in Dresden in the now defunct East Germany (”German Democratic Republic”).

Prof. Hoffman believes that Putin hates Ukraine because the Russian dictator sees it as a hotbed of democratic contagion which could spread to Russia. Putin blamed West Germany for corrupting the glorious communist East Germany with ideas about democracy, freedom, and higher standards of living.

Putin’s war is largely a clash of civilizations between modern Western democracies and kleptocratic autocracies. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was essentially a declaration of war against the West. People who characterize the war as a “territorial dispute” are putting on public display their farcical ignorance of Russian history and Eastern Europe.

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sunnyaalisse · 2 years

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Ok mate, thank you for the Starlinks, but here's why this can't happen:

This creates a precedent for territorial wars being allowed and tolerated by the modern world, which leads to a repeat of this situation in Ukraine (until it's fully under the russian rule), Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Czechia and Slovakia. Maybe Alaska and Japan. This has been stated by Russian politicians and religious figures repeatedly.

Nuclear countries see that nuclear blackmailing works and gain reasons to use it, since it's effective, so Iran and North Korea get ideas.

China gets the message that the world won't fight for the smaller countries' territorial integrity and tries to take Taiwan

This sparks territorial wars all over the world and hightens the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons for leverage, intimidation and brute force in territorial debates

Simply, the world will see that agreed-upon territorial sovereignties don't mean anything unless they have military power to defend themselves, all treaties can be ignored, and the only thing that matters is willingness to flex the superior weaponry and to have valuable resources. Which was the rule that literally led to all wars before this. This will lead to many, many wars after.

Russia is testing the lines of what will be tolerated, and what the consequences for crossing those lines will be. The world is watching. If this behavior is accepted and rewarded, it will be repeated on a much larger scale.

#Russia #Ukrainian #Ukraine #War #vladimir putin #invasion of ukraine #politics #elon musk #elon mask

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irithnova · 10 months

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The Racialisation of Russians as Asian/Mongolian in order to demonise them offensive to both Russians and Mongols. It's an insult to Russians as its clear erasure of their identity in order to insult them, calling them barbarians because of a supposed close relation to Mongols.

Russians are being painted as Asiatic to both insult them and to justify their invasion of Ukraine. Us Europeans would never be so barbaric as to start an unjust war (lol)! Obviously Russia is doing it because they're evil, Asiatic, Mongol Hordes!

Also literally Nazi level racial science by the way.

It's an insult to Mongols because you're throwing around the label Mongol/Mongolian like it's supposed to be an insult, and any relation another group has to Mongolians must mean that they are also evil barbarians!

The idea that Russians (and other eastern Europeans but I've also seen Eastern Europeans say this about Russians) are barbaric Asiatic hordes isn't exactly new but it's received a surge of popularity since the invasion of Ukraine. The amount of people I've seen call Russians Mongol Hordes or say that this is the Mongol Empire 2.0 (you fucking wish)...

A lot of Europeans, especially Western Europeans are just absolutely itching to use their calipers, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine was their greenlight to do so.

If you say shit like this not only are you an uneducated skull-measuring racist but you should probably jump off a cliff tbh.

#Russia #Ukraine #invasion of ukraine #Politics #Mongolia #Racism

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agelessphotography · 2 years

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A volunteer demonstrates the preparation of Molotov cocktails at the Pravda brewery in Lviv, Ukraine, Daniel Leal, 2022

#photography #ukraine #war #invasion of ukraine #daniel leal #2020s #2022 #photojournalism #color photography #lviv

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gamer2002 · 7 months

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Good old times

#ukraine #ukraine war #war in ukraine #russo ukrainian war #russia #war #russian invasion #invasion of ukraine

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greenzaku · 10 months

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How I remember MH17

17 July marks the anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) in eastern Ukraine in 2014. All 298 on board, mostly Dutch, Malaysians, and Australians were killed. I had just finished up with a short term job interstate and was looking for further employment at the time, and had the time to follow the reporting of the incident online. In 2014, I would not have guessed that the event would shape my view of discourse and disinformation in eastern Europe for years to come. Ukraine was on the other side of the world and I had no real interest or understanding of the invasion by Russia back then, but people from my country were on that plane, so I paid attention. The blame game started in earnest.

‘Ukraine fired the missile.’

‘Russia fired the missile’

‘It was an accident.’

‘The Ukrainians are looting the crash site.’

‘The Russians are looting the crash site.’

‘Malaysian Airlines was at fault and shouldn’t have been flying over a warzone.’

‘The pilot was at fault.’

‘The investigation is biased towards Russia/Ukraine/Malaysia/Australia/Netherlands...’

‘Russia/Ukraine tampered with evidence...’

It even got ugly in some less reputable ‘news’ sites and far right conspiracy theories spread online, that it was the ‘missing’ MH370 that crashed into the sea months earlier, that the US did it because reasons, islamophobia, men in black, hijackers, crisis actors, aliens... As a queer person, I paid attention to the fact that several AIDS researchers were on board, and stigma surrounding AIDS was and is still very rife, which fed into the more extreme discourse. The world wanted answers.

Round and round it went. It did eventually emerge that Russia, or ‘separatists’ - really Russian proxies - fired the missile, from a Buk launcher that was later filmed being carted back to Russia carrying three missiles instead of its usual four. The billboard was used to geolocate the truck and Buk’s to the border.

Pardon my terrible MSPaint edit.

The still image is grabbed from a video that was posted by Ukraine’s Defense ministry, but forms part of a broader investigation by Bellingcat, an independent collective of open source researchers, that is too detailed to write here but tracked the movements of the Buk and the truck carrying it to and from the launch site. (link: https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/mh17/)

There was nothing wrong with the plane, the pilot, or the flight path. Passenger planes from Air France, Air India and Singapore Airlines were transiting nearby.

Now, it was obvious that MH17 wasn’t an intentional target. The commanders of the brigade that the Buk belonged to initially posted on social media that they had downed a Ukrainian fighter jet, and then rapidly deleted their celebratory comments when photos of the wreckage appeared online. In my mind, all Russia had to do was acknowledge it was a mistake, or a mistake by ‘separatists’, court martial the guy who pulled the trigger, apologise and fork out some form of compensation. Install a plaque at the site, send flowers, and the world would have eventually looked away from the not-really-civil-war in faraway eastern Europe and their brush with a southeast Asian airline.

Why the lies? Acknowledging the mistake would have been magnitudes cheaper and simpler than the overall war effort. Why was continuing to perpetuate a firehose of falsehoods more important than the truth and trying to repair relations? I couldn’t answer those questions then, but now realise that keeping the information space muddied and flooded with crap is now the norm for disinformation coming out of Russia. Its like they can’t help themselves.

Fast forward to today.

The ‘separatist’ commanders are still involved in the invasion of Ukraine, now unmasked as regular Russians. No commercial flights operate over the country for now. Disinformation, so heavily weaponised during the long months of pandemic lockdown and the former president of the US, runs rife. I posted my own little memorials to the tragedy on social media, year after year, and got bot farm and troll reactions downvoting or pushing them into invisibility. I’m not important enough in the big scheme of things to have a flesh and blood russian troll come to debate me, not that I have the time and energy for it. I’m also not the only person who refuses to forget it, even if the loss pales in significance to the atrocities perpetuated on Ukraine from last year. The lies meant that when the 2022 invasion started along with the inevitable discourse, we also remembered which side was more likely to be lying. The Netherlands and Australia are very supportive of Ukraine, Malaysia is officially neutral (mostly due to convoluted reasoning of America = bad imperialists, America supports Ukraine, so supporting Russia good etc) though many individuals still go against the grain to donate or volunteer. I can’t change what others think, but at least I can prevent them from forgetting.

#long post #very long post #MH17 #remembering MH17 #invasion of ukraine #disinformation #ukraine #russia #military #politics #personal #russian invasion of ukraine

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gameofthrones2020 · 9 months

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Ukraine War: The Grain Crisis and Mass Famine

Ukraine War the Grain Crisis and Mass Famine and how it will be affecting the most in the case of China and Africa.

Russia announced on Monday, 17 July 2023, that the Black Sea grain deal would not be extended since the start of the Ukrainian conflict in 2014 with the seizure of Crimea and the launch of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 in February of that year has been renewed on average within 105 days. The trade agreement allowed Ukrainian great exports you pass from southern parts of…

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#Agriculture #Grain Crisis #Invasion of Ukraine #Mass Famine #Poor Nations #Ukraine War #Vladimir Putin #wheat

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