Being told this is fairly reliable for info on the situation in Ukraine. let me know if it isn't. https://liveuamap.com/

    • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      3 years ago

      There are plenty of leftists that are so poison pilled as to simply side with whomever is against the West, without ever doing any sort of critical thought. Which is in poor form, of course, but even leftists can be pulled into treating politics as a sport.

      But your account is also like 20 mins old and I'm having a hard time believing you're actually posting this in good faith.

      • nonowait [comrade/them]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        I've been quietly reading on Hexbear since chapo got banned, but I couldn't ignore what I was seeing anymore.

        Got banned from Genzedong for pointing this out too lol.

      • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        to simply side with whomever is against the West,

        I was accused literally of the same thing even though what I said was basically what Varoufakis was saying yesterday or Chomsky last week, and they are hardly "tankies"....

        radlib friends irl are saying "now is not the time to criticize the west" and it's "sus" that I want to criticize NATO this exact week,

        and then minutes later they:

        • cheer on dead Russian soldiers
        • want Russia bombed
        • clapping for random bri*ish people volunteering for UKR, and hoping they kill as many Russians as they can

        While what I'm saying is that cold war 2.0 led to this, and the west bears a good chunk of the blame, and we should hope for peace and a quick resolution of the conflict.. But I'm the "tankie living in a distorted anti-west bubble, who supports Putin", fuckin annoying that everyone's a geopolitical expert now

      • Hmm [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Not OP but I think this one might count: https://hexbear.net/post/176702

        • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Don’t know that this is a defense of putin by any stretch. Obviously you can’t annex Kiev. But if you are trying to analyze what putin is thinking (he’s fucking crazy, let’s be honest) this is useful to know

          • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I dunno I take issue with Putin being "crazy" I think he's quite sane but he just wants power and shit, as we see him trying to scoop up more territory and make more of a bulwark against NATO. Not defending him btw, he sucks.

            • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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              3 years ago

              I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong to also question Putin’s sanity in all of this, although that’s obviously a small factor in a long list of historical material causes for this.

              He’s getting old, and allegedly has had some health scares recently. He’s also apparently suuuuper afraid of covid (rightfully so) and has been very isolated for the last two years, and that kind of isolation can certainly fuck with your head after a while.

              • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                Conspiracy time: putin is terminally ill, has 12-18 months. Not that it is making him act irrationally, but he might be thinking about things from an end of history (his history) and reputation perspective.

                Just an interesting thought exercise

              • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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                3 years ago

                I really don't know, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, you know. But just kneejerking to him being crazy I think is a poor analysis.

                • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  Agreed, putting this all as “That crazy Putin!” is very stupid and ignores like 90% of why this is happening. But, the mental state of a leader is still a factor to take into consideration, in the same way we take Biden’s obvious cognitive decline into account.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      There's a lot of people parroting straight up Russian propaganda, like videos direct from the Russian military giving POWs cigarettes

    • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      They just want the ussr back so playing as Tachanka in rainbow6 and this is the only way to get it