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The Russian Federation is not trying to colonize Ukraine. Their goal is NATO neutrality, and annexation of the four oblasts, which are largely pro-Russian. This is a response to the ethnic repressions against Russians in the Donbass following the coup of Yanukovych in 2014, and the ensuing secession of Donetsk and Luhansk and the civil war that followed.
The war was never supposed to be over in days. This was circulated as a means to humiliate Russia, but all talks of an attack lasting days either came from many years before 2022, or from the west.
As for Putin rigging elections, this might be true, but we also know that he is legitimately popular in Russia. The nationalists are most popular, followed by the communists. The pro-western liberals like Navalny was are in the minority and have no real support base.
This goes against my current view of the situation. The NATO expansion is somewhat understandable, not enough for a war perhaps, but unsure.
Care to point me in the direction to read more about this?
What in particular do you question? It's a complex and ongoing subject, so there's no one-stop shop for it. The closest I can do is point you to threads like this one.
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for! 😄 As a Norwegian pretty much everyone sides with Ukraine, and I have not really challenged that view for myself. I have just accepted the narrative "Russia = imperialistic & bad. Ukraine = democracy & good". So it's probably a good idea to try to understand it
Understandable! It's one of the more difficult topics for westerners like us to grasp, and it took me some time to come around to the ML consensus on the Russian Federation (ie, it isn't imperialist if we accept Lenin's analysis, and actually is anti imperialist even if run by bourgeois oligarchs).
Good on you for being open to non-western propaganda sources. Curiosity seems to be mostly dead in the lemmy liberal scene.
Feels morally wrong to intentionally seek out the aggressors propaganda.
Why? You're constantly inundated by your own side's propaganda, might as well see both sides for context.
To be honest I've been trying to avoid that as well. Impossible to completely stay free of the bombardment of the Official Opinion, but I mostly read local newspapers and skip any opinion pieces on international matters in those too. So I have enough stress knowing there is a war, I don't need to hear bullshit justifications from any side, and maybe aside from going to demonstrations I can't do anything to stop it anyway, so I'd rather not blast my brain with power politics I cannot change.
Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is power.
And I have accepted my lack of power. I can't even keep my own emotions under control most days, let alone convince anyone else I'm somehow more knowledgeable or wise.
Look after yourself first and foremost, then if you have extra energy, you can start to help others.
"I don't get information from either side, but I sure do have strong opinions about which side is the aggressor that I got from... Somewhere"
One country invaded another, that much is clear. And as I said, I don't want either sides bullshit reasons for the war, it's just horrible and wrong whoever is at fault.
What do you think happened October 16, 1944 or September 11, 1944?
Go away, I just said I want none of your bullshit excuses and power politics.
Lmao you are literally doing Warhammer memes +++Blessed is the mind too small for doubt+++
And you're a bootlicker, no better for liking a different flavor of boot.
I don't think pointing out a flaw in your logic is synonymous with them being a "bootlicker."
You mean Ukraine invaded Dombas?
The amounts of war crimes alone, even if we were to accept that whole 'supressing NATO' excuse, which is bullshit, are enough to stop any goodwill towards Russia.
Wiki article with the whole Putin talk video
It was bullshit all along, and Ukraine would ignore NATO if Russia left it alone, which they never did, and ignored previous peace deals, yada yada, you don't care anyway.
Talking about popularity in any state without free media is always a joke, including in US.
Kiev has committed massive numbers of war crimes. If your point is that committing war crimes should be a measuring stick, and the side with fewer war crimes is correct, then this is horribly reductive. Ukraine was fine with Russia until the west backed a coup in 2014 and empowered neofascists, this is why the whole civil war erupted and transitioned to war with Russia in 2022.
As for popularity, no state has "free media." The people legitimately support Putin, in general, though the communists have been gaining ground.
What war crimes has Ukraine commited?
From the thread I linked elsewhere:
Essentially, killing civilians, torturing prisoners, shelling civilian areas, similar tactics to the IDF with respect to the Donbass. Makes sense considering Israel and Ukraine occupy similar roles for western imperialism, both are staunch allies, and both are run by neofascists.
Yes, let's go decade ago to fish something out.
Meanwhile Russia is commiting tens of thousands of them in this conflict alone.
Fuck off.
The war has been going on for over a decade, history didn't start in 2022. Ukraine is regularly shelling civilian populations, just the other day they murdered a dozen teenage girls in a shelling attack. The Statesian/Zionist attack on Minab Elementary School comes to mind as a parallel.
Deflecting, deflecting, deflecting, never admitting for a second that Russia is doing attrocities.
Get lost.
Russia has committed war crimes, I never said otherwise. You asked for evidence of Ukraine committing war crimes, and I gave that evidence. I also explained that treating war crimes like a measuring stick is horribly reductive, you've deflected beyond the central question of self determination for the Donbass region.
I've done absolutely nothing wrong. Caping for neofascists like you're doing isn't received well here.
How does it feel to know that Ukraine is pretty much over. The demographic collapse alone will end the country entirely.
That's literally you right now. Unless you care to admit that Ukraine just bombed a girl's school?
It's entirely not Ukraine's choice. The west through institutes like the NED couped the government in 2014 with this end goal in mind (a spear tip against Russia and another block in the containment). If the banderites through some act of god decided to return to being neutral like yanukovych they'd just get couped again and replaced with the next down the list group happy to sacrifice as many Ukrainians as it takes to satisfy their western backers.
Literally wrong on all accounts
Wow, it's like I'm on reddit all over again. Propaganda hits hard.
Can you elaborate? Since when did Reddit have a sizable communist userbase?
I said the absolute contrary. There's nothing communist about Russia nowadays. It's as capitalist as it gets.
Of course Russia is no longer socialist. My point is that what I said is the standard communist stance on the Russian Federation, that of critical support.
No way!!!! No one told us!!!!!