• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Sorry, I would treat your arguments with respect, but I can’t hear you “anti-imperialism” stans over the tanks rolling through Budapest, or your cheering of the invasion of Ukraine with 500,000 casualties.

    • CascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Firstly, Budapest?? That’s a wild first example, either way here’s a book about it.

      Secondly, I hope you understand the different between the USSR and the Russian Federation, but regardless

      Can you explain this image?

      As in, is your understanding of the world able to generate an explanation for this image here?

      If I were to explain it, I would say: NATO-backed Nazis took over Ukraine in a violent coup, started persecution and ethnic cleansing of the Russian-speaking minority in the Donbas region leading to a civil war, which Russia begrudgingly joined - eight years late - on the morally correct side. Russia tried de-escalating for nearly a decade, and even once the war started in earnest it could have ended just two months later in April 2022, but Zelensky tore up a peace deal on the orders of the west leading to the pointless slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians - all in the name of being able to kill Ukrainian Russian-speakers. As a kicker: Zelensky’s mother tongue is Russian, he learned Ukrainian later.