• CommieElon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This gave me fed posting vibes. I mean Russia is definitely committing war crimes and Ukrainian citizens are dying. But they just happen to walk across an Azov battalion poster in a major Ukrainian city? If a small fascist battalion is able to recruit in a city it isn’t even operating in, then it’s influence is outsized.

    All the people interviewed including the anarchists gave run of the mill talking points. Yeah Zelenskyy won 72% of the vote, but Lviv is the only district he didn’t win in lol. The eastern regions of Ukraine voted for Zelenskyy more than the more Ukrainian side of the country.

    Andrew isn’t a fed but the resources he uses are sus.

    • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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      3 years ago

      Andrew isn’t a fed but the resources he uses are sus.

      I mean IDK what other resources he'd have access to, at least without not potentially getting him into deep shit with the State Dept., Ukrainian government or Russian government. I doubt anyone is letting him near Donbas, or really the front at all. Him mucking around refugee camps is probably the best he can manage and I imagine most of the people there are going to be pretty anti-Putin.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Jake Hanrahan (the Brit interviewed here repeatedly) has embedded on both sides of the Donbas conflict, the problem is that he's a monumental dickhead with just about every brainworm you can imagine. I'm like 50% on whether he's a british fed. Either way he's worked for Vice and ProPublica which should tell you a lot.

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I think they just put him in a pig pen for journalists and kept him far away from the people who would have more controversial opinions.