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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Blaming Yanukovych for the Maidan Massacre, a false flag committed by the Banderites now in control of Kiev, is exactly why you're full of shit. The west orchestrated the coup and supported the Banderites for overthrowing Yanukovych, who chose the Russian loan over the IMF loan due to the IMF loan requiring austerity measures.

The Donbass region is where Russians are indigenous. You're trying to erase that through the guise of "international law," and again, after being linked proof of ethnic cleansing, you ignore it all. Even when you're linked pro-western sources, you plug your ears.

The Banderites started the war by massacring civilians, committing ethnic cleansing, and cozying up to the west and NATO, breaking both Minsk agreements. Russia intervening after the Neo-Nazis in Kiev dramatically escalated their onslaught is the fault of the Banderites, not Russia and not the Donbass region.

This is on top of you defending a self-reported fascist, and acting like you're "dispelling propaganda" while uncritically maintaining that any source, western or not, that disagrees with the neo-Nazis in Kiev is "propaganda." More sources? Must be "gish-galloping." You have a thought-terminating orthodoxy to defend fascists and neo-Nazis.

[–] Garfield@feddit.uk -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A few corrections. Ukraine is not run by "Banderites" or neo-nazis. Far-right parties have consistently received low-single-digit percentages of the vote for many years now (I found one small spike in the stats, but that seems like a moment-in-time protest vote, dropping off again) and they hold no real power. Zelensky was elected by a large nationwide majority, including in the east (with international observers).

No blaming, but there's no credible evidence that Maidan was a nationalist "false flag." Multiple investigations found that responsibility was complex and disputed, and not a takeover by extremists.

Donbas is historically multilingual (russian, ukranian, greeks, germans, jews, tartars, etc.) and not an "indigenous Russian" region, and no international body has found Ukrainian policy to be ethnic cleansing.

Minsk violations were documented on all sides by the OSCE, including Russia and Russian-backed forces.

Labeling modern Ukraine as "neo-Nazi" relies on WWII rhetoric, and not present-day political reality.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ukraine is run by Banderite neo-Nazis. From davel's compilation, again:

Groups like Azov have been folded in officially. The Kiev regime upholds Stepan Bandera and uses likeness for propaganda. Nazis infest Ukrainian leadership:

The east supported Yanukovych, and that's why the far-right Banderites couping him kicked off the war.

Stop defending a fascist and the neo-Nazis both of you support.