• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    What is confusing to me is why would it matter to Putin if Trump lied here? The Russian mode of government is lying and deception after all.

    Does he actually think that his voters want Ukraine to lose? Oh fuck, do his voters actually want Ukraine to lose?

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      2 months ago

      Their line isn’t that Ukraine should lose, it’s that America shouldn’t give them money while homeless vets, Ukraine is corrupt, biden crime family, nato expansion, etc. Which coincidentally are all Russian talking points.

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        Those damn russians, constantly bringing up recent history like that.

        Didn’t Hunter get like millions of dollars from both Russian and Ukranian oligarchs? It’s so cool how the kids of politicans always end up with these sweet deals- and to think Trump is claiming to be the deals guy

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          2 months ago

          Oh thanks, I forgot hunter Biden.

          Now go and Google what the Budapest memorandum was.

          • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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            Russia stated that it had never been under obligation to “force any part of Ukraine’s civilian population to stay in Ukraine against its will.” Russia suggested that the US was in violation of the Budapest Memorandum and described the Euromaidan as a US-instigated coup.

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              2 months ago

              Yes, the CIA psyop’d over 70% of the country to support joining the EU, then forced yanukovitch to say “screw that we love Russia” and piss everyone off. And the totally organic resistance movement in the east that happened to have russian equipment and… Soldiers? Yeah just the people self determining or whatever.

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                2 months ago

                So what about the ethnic Russians, and the rest of the non-Ukranian speakers?

                There was a base of people (30% per your post) who didn’t support this and when the government cracked down on resistance, city centers ended up shelled with artillery for years.

                Just a shitty situation to get caught in the middle of, frankly. Did you support NATO intervention against Serbia when it used its military on a breakaway region?

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                  2 months ago

                  Funny how those cities still stand after 7 years of shelling. Meanwhile there are several Ukrainian cities that simply don’t exist anymore but we’ll only see you criticizing Ukraine.

                  Also I love how you say “government cracked down on resistance” as if that wasn’t part of euromaidan first. They cracked down on pro EU protesters first. Then you gesture broadly at the ~30% who didn’t support joining the EU or didn’t care as if that’s some sort of justification for a Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine. Which happened in 2014. That led to the fighting in those regions that you mentioned.

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                    They still stand and the others do not in part because Russia intervened, the ones that have been under siege recently have all been used as military strongholds for quite some time. They’re not civilian centers, the civilians in Donvas didn’t exactly have many options.

                    Did you support Serbia keeping it’s territorial integrity against a breakaway region too?

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      2 months ago

      Half the big right wing youtubers are getting paid by Russia.

      Yes. They want Ukraine to lose.