Been seeing a lot of people coming in here handwringing about 'red fash' and 'muh authoritarianism.'

Figuring that this will be a common occurrence for a while, so wanted to make a collective thread here. The purpose of this is to just have one spot as so we don't fill up the comm with a ton of posts about it.

Post away, comrades!

  • trompete [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    https://lemmy.ml/post/1245910?scrollToComments=true

    No, that’s not what he implied.

    , Putin said he was considering whether “to create on Ukrainian territory a kind of sanitary zone at such a distance from which it would be impossible to get our territory.”

    Anyone who has spent more than 2 minutes listening to Putin and his “nuke”-speeches knows that a “sanitary zone” is a euphemism and means “nuclear wasteland”. He threatens to create a radiation zone in Ukraine to prevent them from attacking russia.

    :huh:

    • Flinch [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I guarantee these very same people would clap like seals for the US sending Ukraine depleted uranium rounds though, the nuclear wasteland is cool when the Good Guys do it

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Um, technically the radiation from depleted U rounds aren't that bad. What negative effects there are come from chemical toxicity, but I guess Putin doesn't train his shills very well :debatebro-l:

      • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Good news (and by that I mean terrible news), the UK has been supplying Ukraine with depleted uranium since March at least.

        Liberals of course cheered about it at the time.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      He threatens to create a radiation zone in Ukraine to prevent them from attacking russia.

      I'm sure Putin has never heard of ICBMs