dude history has a context
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MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoThe whole “we want to end the war” argument just reeks. It stinks of russian propaganda. Russia started the war. They invaded Ukraine. Would you have the same viewpoint if the US was the invader? I’ve seen that comment several times and it kinda starts sounding like a red fascist dogwhistle
Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 1 year ago
spectre@hexbear.net 1 year ago
The war did not start in 2022, your analysis of what has been happening before the invasion needs to go back before that.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Ok
spectre@hexbear.net 1 year ago
I guess instead of “war” I should have said “conflict” btw
ReadFanon@hexbear.net 1 year ago
It was a low-key civil war, make no mistake about it.
Your government doesn’t just allow armed, organised (largely ultranationalist) paramilitary groups to conduct ethnically-motivated attacks on its own soil without their tacit approval, especially not when those same paramilitary groups tended to get absorbed into the state military forces later on.
This isn’t the wild west were talking here.
Fuck, if a protest action in your own country can deploy the pointy end of the state against you immediately then the civil war against the easternmost part of Ukraine could have had a police/military response within days rather than leaving it to play out over literal years.