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The way I see it, both things are true - European politicians and major parties have stirred anger by their incompetence, AND Russia has exploited this anger fo
by rwyinuse 19d ago
The way I see it, both things are true - European politicians and major parties have stirred anger by their incompetence, AND Russia has exploited this anger for their own purposes.
EU has huge flaws, but it's still better than Russia. Germans, French and the British may not understand it, but us unfortunate enough to live next to Russia do. There is a reason why Poland, Baltic countries and now even Finland and Sweden joined NATO. Russia is ruled by evil, murderous tyrants (as is always has been), while EU elite is merely lazy, greedy and incompetent.
I'll choose pro-EU parties over pro-Russian parties as long as EU is not bombing children's hospitals and massacring civilians. I can only hope citizens of other countries do the same, or otherwise there's a pretty good possibility my country will face what Ukraine has suffered.
It's unfortunate that so many alternatives to mainstream parties in big EU countries are also more or less pro-Russian. One should be able to vote against the flaws of European Union without voting for closer ties with Putin.
- 123-asks 19d ago> Russia is ruled by evil, murderous tyrants Yes, and Stalin was Georgian, Kaganowitch was Ukrainian (and orchestrated the Ukrainian Holodomor), Breshnev was Ukrainian and so on. The alternative parties are not pro-Russia. They want to trade with a totalitarian regime just like we trade with Saudi Arabia. And they'll break their election promises anyway just like Meloni and Trump broke theirs.
- throwaway85825 19d agoWas Ukrainian really what was listed as nationality on the propiska?
- djj18 19d agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich Born in Ukraine, first Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev Born on current Ukraine territory (unless you wish to argue that it should belong to Russia). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev#Early_life_and_early_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev#Early_life_and... "Brezhnev's ethnicity was given as Ukrainian in some documents, including his passport, and Russian in others."