Being told this is fairly reliable for info on the situation in Ukraine. let me know if it isn't. https://liveuamap.com/
Called my relatives in Eastern Ukraine, spent half an hour listening to how much they hate Putin, Zelensky, Poroshenko, Yanukovich, Kravchuk, Gorbachev, capitalism, post-Soviet states, Ukrainian troops that blew up a bridge like two km from them, supermarkets that doubled prices overnight, Ukrainian nationalists, Russian nationalists, USA, NATO and mobilisation.
"I'm so anti war it's ridiculous, but you know what, I think we should send some troops to help our Ukrainian friends." :reddit-logo: Really reminds me of "I'm way far left but you know what, Hillary is getting my vote" vibe
The attitude of a lot of people toward arming civilians and "heroic sacrifices" is absolutely disgusting. It accomplishes nothing, it's just a question of how many people will die before this ends.
Russians are once again not white I guess lmao, the amount of literal race science being thrown around Twitter to explain why Russians are uniquely savage and bloodthirsty is bonkers
wow, people in the uk have really changed tack when it comes to accepting refugees huh. wonder why [don't remember if we have that family guy skin chart as an emote but insert that here]
The front page of Reddit is fucking incredible. Reddit didn't exist during the Iraq invasion but if it did it would have looked like this.
i've been hard avoiding any real "news updates" about the ukraine situation since the russian military action began, and i was STILL, by far, the most knowledgeable person at the coffee shop on the subject. what a terrible burden to bear.
there is a low but real possibility that louis ck will be this generation's archduke ferdinand
no but for real can you imagine how the NYT would write about it if that plane fell on him or something? only mention of the sex crimes would be the word "troubled"
My god if you exclusively get your info from :reddit-logo: and the news youd think that Ukraine was about to storm Stalingrad or something. Just uncriticaly believing whatever they hear because it makes them feel good. Never heard the phrase 'fog of war' apparently.
Kyiv is handing out weapons to civilians
https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1497179984909246482
(This is Insanity , ensruing it to become as bloody as it can be.... )
Vladimir Putin's actions are criminal and immoral, but that doesn't change the fact that the sheer bewildering bullheadedness of American foreign policy is what ultimately brought us to this point. Putin's been saying since 2007 that Ukraine joining NATO was an absolute red line for Russia. For fifteen years he's repeated that point, over and over, and getting more and more openly baffled and exasperated that the west seemed not to believe or hear him. But the west just kept pushing and pushing, and making assurances to Ukraine that they would one day join NATO. Even though it was incredibly obvious that they never had any intention of doing any such thing, the west for some fucking reason just couldn't bring themselves to just say so, to do any kind of real diplomacy, to recognize any of Russia's obvious red lines and core interests. None of America's actions leading up to this had anything remotely to do with it's national interests. We just kept saying that Ukraine would join NATO, based on a half-baked and unclear moral principle, which we never had any intention of living up to. We acted like a child playing with an action figure and making up a nonsensical story, only the action figure was Ukraine. America treated Ukraine like a toy and now they're paying the price.
