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this guy's a former Ukrainian ambassador (actually apparently still an "ambassador-at-large", which I just learned was a term, he was formerly an ambassador to a specific country), so I hope he counts as not low-hanging fruit

  • Zrc [she/her]
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    morshupls ukrainians explaining how murdering poles and jews owns the russians

    • Zrc [she/her]
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      "Russia thinks genocide bad so we have no choice but to stan the people that slaughtered some of our closest allies"

  • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    They could also deal with that way before the war, since banderite revival in modern Ukraine reach to at least 1993 and is sanctioned from early 2000's, but they didn't, they hugely escalated it in 2014.

  • itappearsthat [he/him]
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    "pretty handy in a tight spot these lads" said the liberal, referring to actual fascists

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    I like the idea of Ukraine somehow winning the war and then their ultranationalists turning on Poland and the Baltic states to reestablish the Kievan Rus' borders.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      The US would love that because it further destabilizes Europe and creates a market for weapons sales in Eastern Europe and LNG in Western Europe.

      A continuous war in the Balkans also landlocks West Europe from trade with China.