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Russia may be explicitly against Bolsheviks (though recycling the Soviet anthem!), and Putin's Russia is indeed more akin to the former tsarist Empire than to U

Russia may be explicitly against Bolsheviks (though recycling the Soviet anthem!), and Putin's Russia is indeed more akin to the former tsarist Empire than to USSR, but the tsarist Empire was fairly evil, too. Just ask the Poles or the Jews. Russian empire didn't grow to its huge size by trade and friendship, it was conquest. Ukraine is corrupt. So what? Ukrainian corruption is a threat to no one. Not a single nation from Finland to Bulgaria considers itself vulnerable to Ukrainian military aggression, because they aren't an imperial nation and don't seek to dominate others. They were perfectly fine within their 1991 borders and never attempted to annex any extra territory by any means. It is Russia's problem, in the words of great Václav Havel, that it does not know exactly where it ends. All the hatred for Russia stems from their former heavy-handed rule of other nations. If they sincerely tried to make amends, it would slowly go away. They are now trying to rebuild their former imperial system. OF COURSE that nations which escaped their tyranny once are going to hate them. It is freaking simple: we, as in Estonians, Latvians, Poles, Czechs, Rumanians, Ukrainians, Georgians etc. DON'T WANT TO BE THREATENED OR ATTACKED BY RUSSIA. That's it. We have had enough experience with Russian rule. It is primitive and brutal at the same time. Never again.

docmars 3y ago
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- inglor_cz 3y ago
  "we would already be seeing Poland and other neighboring territories taken over by Russia with great ease" The same ease as now in Avdiivka? It took five months of constant bloodshed for Russians to gain the upper hand. "Putin wants to reclaim only a small fraction of Ukraine where the people in those regions have openly stated wanting that very thing to happen, due to Ukraine's corruption and oppressive policies." I don't even know what to reply to this. Hitler also ran fake referenda. BTW That small fraction of Ukraine is something like a sixth of its total territory, plus multiple important cities and most of the coastline. I never really understood why people believed Hitler when he declared in 1938 that Czechoslovak Sudetenland was his last territorial demand, but hey, here we go again. "Kiev is practically spotless when you compare it to Gaza" And? There was never ground fighting in Kiev proper, given that the Russians didn't manage to enter the city, and both Ukraine and Russia have enough of AA to keep each other's air assets at bay. Look at Bakhmut or Avdiivka, places of actual fighting and former homes of tens of thousands of people. They actually do look a lot worse than Gaza. How did you miss those cities when looking for context and perspective?
  - oceanplexian 3y ago
    What geopolitical motive does Russia have for a costly, and likely unsuccessful invasion of Poland? If your argument is "Because Putin is Hitler", you're not really making logical or coherent arguments.
- myth_drannon 3y ago
  Mariupol siege was completely flattened with hundreds of thousands dead from constant shelling. While IDF in Gaza was fighting building to building with most of the population evacuated. The destruction of Gaza you see is following controlled demolition because of the tunnels below (basically every house).
  - za3faran 3y ago
    "controlled demolition"? Yes, very controlled, especially when we see outright admission by their officials that they're after "damage, not accuracy". Indiscriminate shelling and bombing is very obvious and has been recorded for history to remember.
- degradas 3y ago
  > he isn’t interested in endless imperial conquest Putin said in early 2022 that he has no interest in invading Ukraine. Invasion happened weeks later.
  - docmars 3y ago
    After Ukraine baited them on their border, right? Nobody can say Ukraine nor the U.S. didn't want this war in desperation to poke the hornet's nest that is Putin, used as a means to obfuscate abuse around the funding of the war. The U.S. was heavily active in 2014 onward helping Ukraine prepare for this. Specifically in 2016, as shown in this video [1]. 1. https://x.com/PatriotPraetori/status/1755781643233628622?s=20 https://x.com/PatriotPraetori/status/1755781643233628622?s=2...
    - degradas 3y ago
      Baiting? Are you seriously insinuating that Ukraine was about to invade Russia and thus, as Putin claims, they had no choice but to attack? How naive one has to be to actually believe it? US and Europe were not (and sadly, are not) doing nowhere nearly enough in providing defensive weapons to Ukraine, if they had, this invasion would have been stopped long ago.
      - docmars 3y ago
        Invade? Absolutely not -- they would have no chance. Poke the hornet's nest? Yes, I'm saying that. This was a collusion between the U.S., Ukraine, and other globalist EU nations to make Russia look bad using their mass media machine to spread lies about a senseless war, use it as cover to launder money around, and punish / attack a nation (Russia) that isn't submitting to their globalist agenda -- just like they did to Iraq, and several others who wouldn't comply, on the basis of not accepting the U.S. petrodollar. Why is Russia forming BRICS with nearly half the world? To escape from the clutches of the U.S. empire strangling them.
        degradas 3y ago
KingOfCoders 3y ago
"Estonians, Latvians, Poles, Czechs, Rumanians, Ukrainians, Georgians etc. DON'T WANT TO BE THREATENED OR ATTACKED BY RUSSIA." Exactly. Last time Russia and Germany signed a deal to cut Eastern Europe in half, then each invaded countries on their side of the line (and cut Poland in half). Sadly this is not how it is teached in Russia. Which is one of the reasons for what is happening now. Russias goals haven't changed. Luckily Germany (currently) wants nothing of it.

docmars 3y ago

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inglor_cz 3y ago
"we would already be seeing Poland and other neighboring territories taken over by Russia with great ease" The same ease as now in Avdiivka? It took five months of constant bloodshed for Russians to gain the upper hand. "Putin wants to reclaim only a small fraction of Ukraine where the people in those regions have openly stated wanting that very thing to happen, due to Ukraine's corruption and oppressive policies." I don't even know what to reply to this. Hitler also ran fake referenda. BTW That small fraction of Ukraine is something like a sixth of its total territory, plus multiple important cities and most of the coastline. I never really understood why people believed Hitler when he declared in 1938 that Czechoslovak Sudetenland was his last territorial demand, but hey, here we go again. "Kiev is practically spotless when you compare it to Gaza" And? There was never ground fighting in Kiev proper, given that the Russians didn't manage to enter the city, and both Ukraine and Russia have enough of AA to keep each other's air assets at bay. Look at Bakhmut or Avdiivka, places of actual fighting and former homes of tens of thousands of people. They actually do look a lot worse than Gaza. How did you miss those cities when looking for context and perspective?
- oceanplexian 3y ago
  What geopolitical motive does Russia have for a costly, and likely unsuccessful invasion of Poland? If your argument is "Because Putin is Hitler", you're not really making logical or coherent arguments.
myth_drannon 3y ago
Mariupol siege was completely flattened with hundreds of thousands dead from constant shelling. While IDF in Gaza was fighting building to building with most of the population evacuated. The destruction of Gaza you see is following controlled demolition because of the tunnels below (basically every house).
- za3faran 3y ago
  "controlled demolition"? Yes, very controlled, especially when we see outright admission by their officials that they're after "damage, not accuracy". Indiscriminate shelling and bombing is very obvious and has been recorded for history to remember.
degradas 3y ago
> he isn’t interested in endless imperial conquest Putin said in early 2022 that he has no interest in invading Ukraine. Invasion happened weeks later.
- docmars 3y ago
  After Ukraine baited them on their border, right? Nobody can say Ukraine nor the U.S. didn't want this war in desperation to poke the hornet's nest that is Putin, used as a means to obfuscate abuse around the funding of the war. The U.S. was heavily active in 2014 onward helping Ukraine prepare for this. Specifically in 2016, as shown in this video [1]. 1. https://x.com/PatriotPraetori/status/1755781643233628622?s=20 https://x.com/PatriotPraetori/status/1755781643233628622?s=2...
  - degradas 3y ago
    Baiting? Are you seriously insinuating that Ukraine was about to invade Russia and thus, as Putin claims, they had no choice but to attack? How naive one has to be to actually believe it? US and Europe were not (and sadly, are not) doing nowhere nearly enough in providing defensive weapons to Ukraine, if they had, this invasion would have been stopped long ago.
    - docmars 3y ago
      Invade? Absolutely not -- they would have no chance. Poke the hornet's nest? Yes, I'm saying that. This was a collusion between the U.S., Ukraine, and other globalist EU nations to make Russia look bad using their mass media machine to spread lies about a senseless war, use it as cover to launder money around, and punish / attack a nation (Russia) that isn't submitting to their globalist agenda -- just like they did to Iraq, and several others who wouldn't comply, on the basis of not accepting the U.S. petrodollar. Why is Russia forming BRICS with nearly half the world? To escape from the clutches of the U.S. empire strangling them.
      - degradas 3y ago

KingOfCoders 3y ago

"Estonians, Latvians, Poles, Czechs, Rumanians, Ukrainians, Georgians etc. DON'T WANT TO BE THREATENED OR ATTACKED BY RUSSIA." Exactly. Last time Russia and Germany signed a deal to cut Eastern Europe in half, then each invaded countries on their side of the line (and cut Poland in half). Sadly this is not how it is teached in Russia. Which is one of the reasons for what is happening now. Russias goals haven't changed. Luckily Germany (currently) wants nothing of it.