What I have learned: * Russia has already won the Ukraine war * Which NATO started * A lot of people in the West think that Ukraine should surrender * Also Ukraine was the world’s main provider of CSAM * Also Ukraine is exploited by the West but if they can unite with Russia then their economy and everything else will finally be alright It’s literally like a bizarro world and everyone is over there agreeing with it. I’m genuinely confused by, who even are these people (what is the mixture of Russian bots / Russian-aligned ordinary people / confused Westerners / some other explanation.)

I am genuinely confused by hexbear too

Is it a site for queer people or for beanis lovers?

  • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    To be fair I said I’d simplify it as much as possible so obviously some nuance is lost along the way, but just to flesh it out a bit I’ll clarify my thought process in using the terms I chose, because I don’t necessarily disagree with you:

    The imperialist expansion of the US via influence in Ukraine forced an imperialist conflict onto Ukraine, which forced a ethnonationalist conflict onto the people of the DPR/LPR, which is where the conflict started. Simultaneously, the expansion of US influence into Ukraine forced Russia’s hand in 2014 in and then again in the SMO. Both of these actions by Russia have been a combination of anti-imperial resistance to the US and revanchism under nationalist leadership. Russia can be engaging in both anti-imperial resistance and ethnonationalist conflict simultaneously.

    So to explain the reasoning behind my initial choice of words: they are to demonstrate that each rung on the levels of badness I used, so to speak, can be the result of the next worse level of badness. So in the example I gave, I am essentially trying to say that the US’s imperial expansion after the collapse of the USSR forced imperial conflict on the people of Ukraine, which forced ethnonationalist conflict on the people of the LPR/DPR. Likewise, the same act of imperial expansion has only opened one major route for nationalist Russia to resist US imperial expansion, which is ethnonationalist/revanchist conflict. Russia is engaging in ethnonationalist/revanchist conflict because, geopolitically speaking, it has been railroaded into it as a means to resisting US imperialism.