Here's how Ukraine was being reported by the West before the war.

Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.

These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity.

Five years after Maidan, the beacon of democracy is looking more like a torchlight march. A neo-Nazi battalion in the heart of Europe

If you whitewash NAZI POGROMS just because you want to beat Russia, fuck you. Siding with far-right fascists to defeat far-right fascists doesn't make you the good guy. There is no lesser of two evils here.

If you dismiss any criticism of Ukraine as Russian propaganda, you might want to ask why the rest of the world, including the West, was concerned about Nazism in the area and then suddenly changed their tune only after the war started.

We should be getting both sides into peace negotiations, not prolonging the bloodshed and providing Nazis with illegal cluster bombs

  • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    The US got heat from other supporters of Ukraine for that even.

    Ah yes, I'm sure that's why germany-cool sent exactly 1,488 panzer tanks to ukkkraine

    Must just be a coincidence that white supremacists and nazis all love those numbers

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      14 types of one tank and then 88 types of another tank

      I don't think Germany's malfunctioning military even has 1488 ready to deploy tanks in total lol

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        rosa-salute thanks for the correction

        OK that sounds way more reasonable than what I said but I'm just gonna leave what I said because the underlying point still stands

    • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      all I was referring to was the fact that they all literally criticized the move, in typical diplomatic hand-wringing ways. Say anything about other countries' military aid, it doesn't change that they still issued statements, it just makes them hypocrites (big shock).

      Also, they sent 14 of one kind of tank and 88 Panzers, Germany doesn't even have a thousand tanks in its possession.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      Like a few years ago when the DHS or whoever reported that they had "lost" 1,488 migrant children from our concentration camps