• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Russia is less terrorist than Azerbaijan, but the latter isn’t even being sanctioned (and there’s been an ICJ decision against them, but everybody ignores it) for starving out a little country of 120k people right now in a medieval siege, and openly stating that they are doing exactly that.

    I don’t think Ukraine has lots of problems. At least the aggressor there is recognized for what it is and the victim is recognized for what it is and armed by half the world.

    I don’t think Ukraine deserves any attention, in fact, since in Artsakh they support Azerbaijan. Support of now finally actual genocide happening is what makes me think that.

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      1 year ago

      I think Ukraine is a western puppet. But that doesn’t mean Russia isn’t also shit.

      People can wrap their heads around two mean bullies fighting in a schoolyard. But someone when it’s politics many people want a single bad guy.

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        1 year ago

        Ukraine is not “western” puppet, it’s just a big oligarch-dominated part of the ex-USSR.

        Say, Transcaucasia was toxic nationalist-bandit-oligarch dominated, with these components being initially almost equally mixed, and to some extent still is.

        Russia was oligarch and FSB dominated, until those merged with FSB being on top.

        Ukraine was similar, but oligarchs are on top now.

        I wholeheartedly agree that Ukraine is better than Russia. It’s just more similar to Russia in the dimension of evil than most here seem to think.