• SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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    Ukraine has a responsibility to make sure US and foreign support isn’t wasted and they’re doing just that.

    idk dude, maybe you should stop sending wave after wave after wave of leopards and bradleys into minefields if you want to not waste Western resources

    I hope Ukraine kill all these invading Russian motherfuckers and that Putin dies too.

    the saddest thing is that at the end of this war, there will be hundreds of thousands if not millions of dead Ukrainians, all who died because of Western hatred. but you won't actually care, will you? the lives of the average Ukrainian mean nothing to you. you could send a hundred Ukrainians to die horrifically in the no man's land and if a Russian stubs his toe because of it, you would call it a worthy sacrifice, because causing the Russians inconvenience and suffering is worth much more than saving the lives of innocent people who have been conscripted at gunpoint.

    if it wasn't a worthy sacrifice, and you thought this wholesale slaughter should stop, you would support ending the war, like the left does.

    • andresil@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Yes, all because of western hatred, fuck all to do with the people who invaded in the first place. They're all imperalist fucks but takes like this on the situation are just completely braindead.

      • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
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        the people who invaded in the first place

        Where have you been for 8 years? 2014-2022

        What do you know of the modern "civil conflict" in Ukraine? Do you know what happened in 2014? Are you aware of who began massacring who that year?

        (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_have_you_been_for_eight_years%3F#:~:text=%22Where%20have%20you%20been%20for,pointing%20out%20to%20what%20Ukraine)

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Holy shit, NATOpedia made an article saying "Hey, there might be actual historical context to this situation and Putin didn't wake up on February 24th and decide to murder a bunch of people because he's a very evil bad bad man and King Zelensky shall slay the dragon and then we all live happily ever after." is actually Russian disinformation? Oh my fucking god. These people are unbearable.

          • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            It's so fucking funny. I shared it semi-ironically (the Russian bots are inside your walls) but I also want it to serve as an example of liberal anti-communist biases that permeate Wikifedia and hopefully an exercise for our more liberal acquaintances to practice their critical reading skills.

            Hey, that time the Ukrainian state killed people? It wasn't TECHNICALLY an attempted genocide, according to our sixth-time revised definition of the term (rev. 2022). We know they TECHNICALLY outlawed the spoken and written language of a major plurality of their people and TECHNICALLY killed 14,000+ of them, but like, it wasn't a genocide. Russia is doing the genocide. Because Putler is ebil.

            It's amazing how thin the veneer of understanding is on empire defenders. They cannot even keep their criticisms of international and national policy differentiated, when it comes to attacking anti-imperialists it's always both. No examination of political economy or national histories, just democratic good guys and auforitarian bad guys.

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            • o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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              That's hilarious. What should happen after signing an agreement is that the violence should stop! Gtfo with this things were getting better but we won't provide any evidence to back this claim up bullshit.

              • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
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                1 year ago

                Reminds me of how ingrained the presupposed eternal nature of this imperialist hell is into things like statistical analyses of police violence.

                For instance, I once had a guy in college (who is now a professional Republican lobbyist) tell me that there was indeed a racial problem behind police violence in the U.S.! The racial disparity between how many white folk and how many black folk were getting killed, he agreed, was appalling. He said, however, that over time that disparity was shrinking, and officer-involved fatalities were reaching "equitable levels between whites and blacks!", so we're actually on the fast track to progress, not regress.

                The disparity was shrinking. Not the actual amount of murders.

                The wanton and brutal murders committed by police are not the primary issue, they say, the opaquely racial disparity between who is being murdered is.

                A game of images. A perfectly logical conclusion to this train of thought is that police should simply murder more white people to prove that racism is over, to make state-sanctioned violence more equitable. Murder, but be inclusive about it!

                This is the presentation of the issue by those who acknowledge that there even exists a racial problem. There are plenty who outright deny its existence and still more who celebrate it. Politicians who claim to oppose police violence (especially the phenotypically-motivated kind) will nevertheless be found supporting legislation that further militarizes the police. This is how Amerika does politics... never harm reduction, only harm redistribution - at best.

        • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Wow. I've been asking people that question since February 2022 and I have yet to receive a single Ruble from Mr. Putin. angery

          • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            I recall talking with my friends about Ukraine being a Nazi state in 2020. It was just a fucked up thing all of us knew. I suppose I ought to wash my brain of that vivid memory, lest I become a kremlin apologist ex post facto.

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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        The imperialism of marching your border closer and closer to NATO's troops from 1990 to 2022 is truly the worst kind. Russia must be punished for putting Moscow that close to Ukraine.

        couldn't possibly have anything to do with the pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass who were getting slaughtered for years before 2022. those people don't matter, only pro-Ukraine people matter. couldn't possibly have anything to do with security interests. only NATO's security interests matter, not Russia (or China's). couldn't possibly have anything to do with having armed NATO-trained troops in a country that recently experienced a US-backed coup. of course, if Russia puts Wagner forces in African countries (so not even inside NATO's "sphere of influence") that recently experienced a coup, that's an entirely different thing because uhh Russia is bad and NATO is good. that's Russian imperialism. us putting our troops in coup'd countries is freedom and bringing democracy. and also that wasn't a coup, it was actually the citizens doing it all by themselves.

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    • teichflamme@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      That has to be one of the dumbest takes I've ever read on the internet.

      If the West wouldn't support Ukraine then the Russians would kill them without resistance, that's about it.

      • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        If the West didn't organize a coup in Ukraine, put Nazis into power, then prod them into slaughtering their countrymen, then the Russians wouldn't have invaded. The Russians didn't just wake up one day and decide to invade Ukraine.

        I'd love to see how you people will react when Mexico joins BRICS and the US invades it.

        • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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          I'd love to see how you people will react when Mexico joins BRICS and the US invades it.

          I cannot fucking wait for China and Russia to do freedom of navigation exercises between Cuba and Florida like how the US does with Taiwan and China and for Americans to just fucking LOSE it. Holy shit, it'll be so funny. "No, this isn't the same because China is evil and we're the good guys!"

        • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Mexico aint joining brics unfortunely. Tho it doesnt stop the US from manufacturing consent to invade on a daily basis with their fentanyl+cartel talking points.

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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        The West's support of Ukraine is getting them all killed anyway. Might as well lay down your arms and have some working-age males to rebuild the country with after surrendering.

        They could have made peace near the beginning of the war and they rejected it. Russia offered to hand back Kherson and Zaporozhye oblasts and withdraw in exchange for Ukraine giving up aspirations of NATO and not trying to acquire nuclear missiles, but Ukraine refused. Hardly the rhetoric of a bloodthirsty warlord.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        If the west didn't use Ukraine as a proxy there wouldn't have been a war in the first place. It's sad human garbage such as yourself that mad it possible. Now you sit here and bloviate while people die. Fuck you!

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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        If the west wouldn't 'support' Ukraine then they'd still have their democratically elected government and wouldn't be in conflict with Russia in the first place

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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        Did all the Japanese get killed after they surrendered? Did all Germans? If they had surrendered earlier less of them would have died. The same goes for Nazi Ukraine. Their defeat is inevitable, and prolonging the inevitable only adds to the suffering...and to the list of war crimes that they will be charged with by Russia's tribunals afterwards. The West's "support" is literally destroying Ukraine and they have all admitted that they have no problem with this, in fact they profit from it.

        The West is happy to "fight to the last Ukrainian" to hurt Russia, the Banderite Nazis are happy to die (and force their less fanatical compatriots to do so as well) for the West so long as it enables their genocidal urges, meanwhile the only ones who actually care about the Ukrainian people and have gone out of their way to try and save them from the Western imperialists and from themselves are the Russians.

        It's actually really sad that there isn't a single country on the planet that cares about Ukraine except Russia (and maybe Belarus). To the West they're just a tool, useful idiot cannon fodder, to the rest of the world they're a tragic cautionary tale about what happens when you let the lunatics take over the asylum, which is what happened on the Maidan in 2014. If you really cared about Ukraine you too would want the flow of weapons and money to them to stop, because the longer this goes on the worse it will be for them.

        • PandaBearGreen [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Not to mention the arming of a now destabilize country in Europe, could have totally unforeseeable consequences. But that's not Americans problem.

      • WafflesTasteGood [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        If the West wouldn't support Ukraine then the Russians would kill them without resistance, that's about it.

        Kill who? Without the west supplying and supporting Ukraine wouldn't even have a functioning military to kill.

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        you're so wrong it's hard to know where to even begin. You buy into the premise that the US arming reactionaries and building them up as a force to destabilize and entire region is somehow "protecting" people.

        • teichflamme@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          you're so wrong it's hard to know where to even begin

          Yeah man looks like you have all that insight from your secret sources that anyone else does not.

          Why is the entirety of Europe so dumb and supports Ukraine not getting fucked for literally no valid reason?

          Look, there's basically two theories for why no one outside this removed bubble agrees with these shit takes - especially in the region where this is happening.

          A) you and the twenty other dudes are just smarter than anyone else that cannot see through what you have apparently uncovered by sitting on your desk and browsing the web B) the absolute majority of politicians, the military, and the actual people living in the continent have gotten it right

          If you think A) is the case then I don't know what else to tell you

          • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Why is the entirety of Europe so dumb and supports Ukraine not getting fucked for literally no valid reason?

            Loaded question that presupposes that Europe is actually "supporting" Ukraine and not simply dangling membership in the world's largest protection racket in front of them like a carrot on a stick, in order to get them to fight a pointless and avoidable war to destabilize Russia, while also further privatizing and looting the Ukrainian economy.

            • teichflamme@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              So, again, your argument is that you have unique insight that no one else has. Do you even realize that at this point?

              Even if what you said was true and by chance you got it right, there's so much in it that makes literally no sense.

              simply dangling membership in the world's largest protection racket in front of them like a carrot on a stick

              Literally no one was having serious talks about this before the invasion. If that was the end goal all along that could have been so much easier BEFORE the war.

              n order to get them to fight a pointless and avoidable war to destabilize Russia

              Russia was not stable in any way, share, or form before the war. They weren't even a real democracy.

              And, again, even if that were true: Russia started the war. And they can end it at any point in time.

              The west doesn't have to destabilize Russia because they are absolutely irrelevant from both a economics and military perspective.

              Which is presumably why they started the war.

              while also further privatizing and looting the Ukrainian economy

              They are being gifted weapons and money. Idk how you could even think this was a net gain.

              • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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                They weren't even a real democracy.

                yeah, we know.

                Show

                don't know why you're fixated on this point. Russia isn't a democracy. And? Nobody here is arguing that Russia is a good country or a democracy.

                Of course you imagine that the capitalist class dictatorships in the NATO countries are real democracies because they practice multi-party elections between competing capitalist factions, while failing to ever represent working class or marginalized interests except in the most nominal and symbolic ways.

                They are being gifted weapons and money. Idk how you could even think this was a net gain.

                Ukraine is not being gifted anything. they're expected to pay for all of this "aid," with interest. Down the line this will be used as an excuse to privatize and loot their economy. Oh wait. It already is.