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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (92 children)

The people of Donetsk and Luhansk, who voted to join the Russian Federation, seem to be happy with the way the war is going. Kiev was ethnically cleansing them since 2014, after all, so that checks out. As for Ukraine being a glorified millitary outpost, again, it's similar to Israel. Ukraine gets arms from NATO, is cozy with NATO, and is in general a highly millitarized country. Poland is also governed by the far-right, this isn't the grand own you think it is. Europe since the end of World War II has been subservient to the US Empire, that isn't new. What's new is Europe's demotion from vassal to periphery, which is an ongoing process accelerated in recent years.

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