• @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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    -82 months ago

    LOL Almost no cannon fodder to send, the massive amount of arms and equipment they started with but now they’re starting to win?

          • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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            -52 months ago

            Depends if you believe the ghost of Kiev and ‘fighting with shovels side’.
            Both sides are a tragedy.
            Unfortunately for Russia it’s a matter of survival.
            The ukros could’ve just been OK with staying what they had after the coup and not terrorise and take the east that didn’t want anything to do with them.

            • @Triasha@lemmy.world
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              32 months ago

              Who were they “taking the east” from?

              What is the threat to Russia’s existence?

              You have this backwards. The war is existential for Ukrainians. Russians decided to annex Crimea, and then luhansk and Donesk. When Kiev caught for it’s own territory, the Russians went for the capitol and attempted to overthrow the whole country.

                • @Triasha@lemmy.world
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                  12 months ago

                  What does the ethnicity of the inhabitants of the eastern provinces have to do with national borders? Does Mexico have claims to Texas and California? Should the US conquer Canada because of the 10’s of thousands of US natives living there?

                  If Ukraine was abusing it’s population it should be censored, sanctioned, it’s leaders prosecuted for crimes against international law, but invasion is worse than anything short of genocide. The people of Donesk and Luhansk have had their many of their communities completely destroyed. They are not better off because of the war.

                  • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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                    -52 months ago

                    Garbage comparison.

                    “If Ukraine was abusing it’s population it should be censored, sanctioned, it’s leaders prosecuted for crimes against international law”
                    Right, they had been doing it since 2014.
                    That’s when “The people of Donesk and Luhansk have had their many of their communities completely destroyed”.

                    Somehow the so-called ‘rules based order’ didn’t give a shit.
                    We all know the international laws don’t count as much for US friends like Netanyahu or in this case the proxy fascists they armed and trained.
                    This is from 2016 and you can find plenty of evidence of this or the west training literal fascists to do this.
                    https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf I guess CNN didn’t show that.

                    After all most suckers only know the war started when ebil Ruzzia invaded the poor peace loving ukranians out of nowhere.