• TraumaDumpling
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      1 year ago

      and you don't think they would use that "small part" of ukraine? you don't think having access to ukrainian airspace, ideally someday without russian military euipment within its borders, would be helpful at all? like maybe we would want to launch a multi-pronged attack from several locations at once or something?

      no one said it was the only reason, there's also the consistently broken ceasefires and ethnic cleansing of russian speakers in the donbass and luhansk republics. and the american interference in ukraine's government. see any UN report from before 2020.

        • TraumaDumpling
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          1 year ago

          i wasn't talking about invading and mobilizing, but a multi prong nuclear first strike to take out nuclear launch and control facilities. an invasion may or may not happen afterwards to secure the region.

          as for evidence of ethnic cleansing, i already mentioned the UN reports but i'll post.

          https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf

          https://press.un.org/en/2022/ga12483.doc.htm

          https://press.un.org/en/2022/sc14823.doc.htm

          https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-problem-vladimir-putin-s-denazification-claim-war-ncna1290946

          https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/UA/Ukraine_14th_HRMMU_Report.pdf

          https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/ukraine/

          https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/02/the-historian-whitewashing-ukraines-past-volodymyr-viatrovych/

          https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/white-supremacists-other-extremists-respond-russian-invasion-ukraine

          https://thehill.com/opinion/international/359609-the-reality-of-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-is-far-from-kremlin-propaganda/

          https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-s-got-a-real-problem-with-far-right-violence-and-no-rt-didn-t-write-this-headline/

          https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/mappingmilitants/profiles/azov-battalion