• Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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      4 months ago

      you are, and I cannot stress this enough, a moron

      Liberals like you are the reason we're going to have world war 3, because you're too fucking stupid to actually be aware of what's going on in the world

      • blarth@thelemmy.club
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        4 months ago

        What? Ukrainians are dying to Russian aggression in Ukraine. What twisted world are you people living in?

            • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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              4 months ago

              The fucking Ukrainians have talked about the U.S. forcing them out of peace talks, but I guess you, being a liberal with the memory of a goldfish, can't remember anything that happened before 2022

                • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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                  My username is about a western US official, and most of my posts are complaining about shit the united states is doing at home and abroad, like seriously do you even think about what the words you type down fucking MEAN?

                  Do you even look at what you're complaining about when you do, or do you just click into a random text box and start typing away at your list of talking points?

                  For fucks sake, stop being so deeply embarrassing

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                • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
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                  You would unironically be a thousand times better informed if 100% of your consumption didn't come from CIA mouthpiece media, regardless of how tainted by bias you consider it to be.

            • BeamBrain [he/him]
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              4 months ago

              The purpose of the "Russian bot" accusation is to use an unfalsifiable claim to avoid actually having to engage with someone's arguments without admitting that you can't rebut them

        • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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          4 months ago

          Maybe don't go around making inflammatory geopolitical comments in public if you only just started paying attention to this conflict in 2022

          • blarth@thelemmy.club
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            4 months ago

            Nah, I’ve been paying attention to the Russian aggression in Ukraine for much longer that that.

              • BeamBrain [he/him]
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                4 months ago

                Funny how on the rare occasion they respond to posts like this one, it's to make a snide comment about Russian bots

                sartre-pipe "If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

              • anachronist@midwest.social
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                4 months ago

                Yeah a thing the CIA did in 1953 definitely explains modern Ukrainian politics. Clearly they planted sleepers that had children who had children (real potent Nazi sperm) that were activated 60 years later to phony up the Euromaden uprising.

            • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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              4 months ago

              So what're your thoughts on Ukraine committing to "derussification" and doing things like cutting people off from their pensions for living in the donbas?

              P.s. "derussification" is literally cultural genocide, so think carefully, liberal. You care about the Uighurs, right?

            • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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              4 months ago

              At what point did this become Russia's aggression? Certainly after the fall of the Soviet Union by western backed coup (before which Ukraine and Russia were literally the same country). Did Russia's aggression start when NATO aggressively expanded into the former Eastern bloc after promising not to as a major condition of the USSR's dissolution? How about when Russia subjected its own population to devastating austerity, resulting in untold death and destruction, all in a genuine effort to liberalize and assimilate into NATO themselves? Was that Russia being too aggressive? Or did Russia's aggression not start until after the west continued to wage economic warfare anyway, demonstrating NATO never had any intention to let Russia coexist peacefully on the world stage regardless? How aggressive was it of Russia when the west helped to orchestrate the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine to install a rabidly anti-Russian fascist government on one of Russia's largest land borders? I guess Russia was being too aggressive when Ukraine decided to ban the Russian language and shell Russian speaking civilians in Eastern Ukraine for literally years and years in violation of the Minsk agreements, resulting in massive pro-Russian separatist movements forming to fight off Banderite pogroms.

              I think I get it now, after exhausting literally all available diplomatic avenues to peace, aggressive Russia started this conflict out of nowhere by supporting the cause of the breakaway republics invading poor innocent Ukraine, wow can't believe a country would go to war like this at the drop of a hat! Irrational aggressive Russia should just take their troops home and surrender all territory back to Ukraine, a country losing a war so badly it's on the verge of collapse.

              • blarth@thelemmy.club
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                By your logic, I guess it’s time to eradicate the Jewish population from Israel and hand it back to Palestine, and hey, why not go back even further? Americans should be forced to move back to their countries of origin and hand all lands back to native Americans. Where does this logic lead to? Are you really advocating for wars to break out all over the world over historical deeds? Ukraine has been independent for a very long time. Why did Russia suddenly decide it’s their territory again? Is it about the territory or the supposed Nazis? Can you pro Russia propagandists make up your minds about what exactly the reason for the invasion is?

                • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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                  4 months ago

                  I'm sorry but your reply is literally incoherent, and I'm not sure what if anything in my comment caused your brain wormed mind to react like this.

                  • blarth@thelemmy.club
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                    4 months ago

                    Great response, I guess challenging your bullshit propaganda simply results in a shut down. Or, maybe, simply speaking in a colloquial western way is too challenging for Russian propagandists?

                • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                  4 months ago

                  Oh cool, genocidal zionist talking points too! Hey if you're gonna embrace fascism may I suggest you skip to the end part?

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        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          Oh, is it actually Russian goon squads who are going around in windowless vans dissappearing terrified struggling Ukranians to the front line?

        • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]
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          4 months ago

          Pop quiz time: Who started the war? Was it

          A. Russia?

          B. Ukraine?

          C. NATO on behalf of the US Empire

            • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]
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              4 months ago

              So all the escalations and violence from NATO that preceded the official start of the war don't count?

              If you do a thing that you know is going to lead to war then you're starting the war. And NATO knew its brinkmanship with Ukraine was very likely to force Russia's hand -- analysts across the political spectrum were screaming it for years trying to sound the alarm. The mistake they made was assuming NATO would care to avoid war.

              NATO led Ukraine into war, has fed Ukrainians into the abattoir of Russian artillery, sabotaged peace talks, and just generally clearly gives 0 fucks about Ukrainian lives.

        • MaeBorowski [she/her]
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          4 months ago

          Like so many others who get their understanding of events from mainstream western media, you really don't have a clue as to what's going on. Here are some things for you to consider.

          The fascist Ukrainian leadership is gang pressing civilians on the street into unmarked vans to be sent off to the front lines to die as cannon fodder. This is well documented and is open knowledge. Forced conscription is rampant and even many of those civilians in Ukraine who are against Russia (and not all of them are by any means) are now actively sabotaging the Ukrainian military. (see more on that below).

          All along, the US and NATO have demanded that this war continue, despite the fact that Russia has offered reasonable peace terms numerous times, and despite the fact that it was never winnable for Ukraine. NATO (the US) does not give a shit about throwing Ukrainian people into a meat grinder if it means they can take out a few Russians too and continue the grift of enriching western arms manufacturers while plundering the country by privatizing every public asset that once existed there.

          What you call a Russian invasion was actually Russia entering into a civil war that was already in progress, a war where the Kiev regime (that took power via western-backed coup by the way) was shelling the Donbas (eastern part of Ukraine), murdering civilians, burning trade unionists alive in their union halls, and trying to ethnically cleanse the Russian-speaking populace that lives there. Most of eastern Ukraine did and still do see Russia as coming to help liberate them, and are fighting against the Ukrainian regime as they have been long before February of '22, but since then have been doing so alongside or as part of Russia.

          Ukrainians are dying because the (literal) nazis in control of Ukraine along with their masters NATO, will not allow the war to end so long as any Ukrainian with the ability to fight still lives. And it's not just Russian weapons and military that is what ends up killing them, regardless of the fact that it is the interest of western imperialists that is ultimately responsible for sending them to their deaths. Ukrainians who refuse to fight have been getting killed from the start by Ukraine, some of them literally shot in the back as they try to flee, or bombed in train stations as they tried to get out of the country. And now children, many of them the children of parents who were already killed, are doing things like sabotaging Ukraine's military vehicles. And guess what... these kids are getting executed on sight for doing so:

          Resistance to military conscription deepens in Ukraine as leaders talk of role as a mercenary power

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          Every day, across the country, police are reporting arson attacks against Ukrainian military vehicles. Military personnel in the rear are increasingly wary of leaving their vehicles on the streets overnight, instead parking them near police stations. But even this does not always help.

          Those detained by police for these attacks have mostly been teenagers between 12 and 18 years of age, according to governor Oleh Sinegubov of Kharkiv Oblast (province), writing in early August.

          As a result of such attacks increasing in number, Oleh Romanov, commander of an anti-tank unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), has declared he has given permission to shoot on sight those who set fire to military vehicles in the rear. "In coordination with higher command, using military immunity, I give verbal permission to my fighters to shoot those things on the spot. Such traitors must be eliminated on the spot, considering wartime conditions." His unit is the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade, formerly a unit of the neo-Nazi 'Azov Battalion' now fully integrated as an autonomous unit of the regular army.

          So the commander of what is today a regular Ukraine military unit is openly claiming that he has issued orders to shoot without trial civilian youths should they be caught in the act of damaging military equipment… or be only accused of doing so. Ukrainian authorities are not denying that many of the attacks against military equipment are carried out by teenagers, nor do they deny that orders to shoot perpetrators are being issued and are bypassing the formal, decision-making of the country's government and armed forces general staff.


          ...

          The "twisted world we're living" in is the real one, not the propaganda-spun fake world you mistakenly believe to be reality. Pry your head out from under the propaganda spigot and look around, you might even then consider joining us in understanding what is actually happening in the world.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, that's pretty much the sum total of all the strategic planning that went into this wet fart of an offensive