• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    11 hours ago

    The source still is the US government, i.e. NATO. It can hardly be interpreted as impartial.

    You’re touching on why “just google it” is a horrible advice: sources in english language will emphasize the western consensus who have a vested interest in weakening Russia and are in an active economical war with Russia. it’s really hard to find english speaking, impartial sources.

    From what I found online, while the claims of “genocide” are blown out of proportion, Ukraine has still also violated the Minsk treaty by attacking Donbas.

    I think it’s important to note that I don’t want to condone neither Russia, nor Ukraine. Even if everything is true about Russian minorities in the Donbas: I don’t think that being conscripted is too much better. But I also think that the Ukrainian state is using its’ own population as cannon-fodder to fight a proxy war for the west (if it weren’t a proxy war, the changing stance of the US wouldn’t be as big of a problem).

    Fuck states. All of them. No war but class war.

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      9 hours ago

      What do you want me to say, that it’s clear Russia continually violates ceasefire for the past 20 years of various nation states?

      Like idk you can go find plenty of sources that say that I’m sure some won’t be in English but you’re not going to ever find something from Russia themselves that says “yeah we violated this shit”

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        7 hours ago

        What do you want me to say? I already said that I don’t want to excuse Russia or its’ imperialism.

        But I also don’t think that just because Russia is an imperialist nation that you should in turn start hero-worshipping Selensky. As the interests of the Ukrainian state diverged from the interests of the Ukrainian people that it uses as cannonfodder for its national interest.

        The enemy of my enemy is not automatically my friend. Two parties can be inexcusable (compare: Israel and Hamas). No war but class war.