Wawel
2yr ago
Submit interesting materials there. Do not even try spamming, that will not work.
Wawel
2yr ago
There are occasional classifieds posts, one was posted recently for all kinds of spam.
Wawel
2yr ago
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I am not from Canada and I am not at all responsible neither for residential schools nor ongoing handling of that
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Are you claiming that anything even close in scale to what Canada did in this schools for native people is happening in Ukrainian schools?
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are you withdrawing claims of "actual genocide against its russian minority since 2014" - mentioned by you in distinction from cultural genocide?
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"Especially when murder of civilians, often over stuff as simple as social media posts, are rampant in Ukraine." - I want to remind you that Russia invaded Ukraine, not other way around so it is hard to put blame on Ukrainians for Russia bombing cities.
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"woke's puppet regime" - if you think that Ukraine is strongly woke then you are quite confused. And they are getting substantial support but are quite far from being puppeteed by either side.
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"multiple times a week at land acknowledgements before events, in PSAs put out endlessly on radio, TV, and youtube ads" - wat.
indeed both regions have recruited large forces in the past 8 years to resist Ukrainian agression against the independent republics
And somehow this forces were recruited mostly among Russian soldiers that visited with Russian equipment, up to anti-air system that shot down civilian airliner (and this specific Buk system with missing missile returned to Russia).
In other words, sometimes negating mainstream media just makes you repeating a different propaganda that is less truthful.
Yes, BBC and CNN are manipulating and often lying. But Lavrov and whatever sources you use are much worse than that on this topic.
I have seen no evidence Russia wasn't largely supported by the populations of Crimea and the Donbass
In Crimea maybe, but I have seen also no evidence that annexation into Russia had a real majority. To speak nothing about supermajority. And no, "referendum" setup by Russia without oversight with Russian army standing around obviously does not count.
In Donbass? Support for what? Autonomy had serious support, peaceful annexation into Russia had minimal support. Multiyear war and turning Mariupol into mass grave had no support.
commiting cultural if not actual genocide against its russian minority since 2014
[citation needed]
Especially for deliberate mass murder claims (I guess that you mean by "actual genocide"?).
And not some official Russian propaganda.
Ideally, not something where Russians are 10 or 100 times worse. Somehow one side invaded and keeps bombing cities, shot down civilian airliner, deports people and Lavrov claimed that no attack is happening both while invasion was prepared and weeks after it started.
Wawel
2yr ago
I would first check whether is there some significant taboo. And what is the reason for "it's oddly terse".
If somehow cryonic magic is real, check whether they have resources for recreated people. Maybe written by someone before you.
Yeah, in this case war is so prominent in large part because it is happening in Europe and Europeans got scared. And "because white people are dying this time" is fairly accurate reason for why is so prominent.
And also because Russia escalates and it is a good occasion to reduce its power and plans before in directly attacks NATO member and USA will need to decide whether they want
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NATO collapse
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credibly threaten nuclear war
Nice to see USA capable of more long term planning than Russia with CSTO that just collapsed (Armenia).
But it is not changing that it is quite clear case of good vs evil. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 (doing massive damage to any attempts to give up nuclear weapons by anyone else in future), annexed Crimea, shot down civilian airliner, proceeded to wage war in East. And more recently started full scale invasion that killed thousands (and total death count likely crossed 200 000).
Russia is clear invader and all their stated reasons are lies and in direct conflict in reality. Russia has brought neo-nazi units into Ukraine to hunt down Jewish president, murders thousands Russian-language speakers to protect them and destroys primarily cities where they live. Russia claiming to be threatened by NATO empties bases in Kaliningrad and on border with Finland. 1st Guards Tank Army was recently mauled.
It is a pure imperialism annexation war, with things like deportation of children, declaration that Ukrainian identify is not existing and attempting to destroy it, large scale destruction, looting of anything from washing machines through cars to radiators, widespread rape, torture and murder...
The best that can be said that during WW II they behaved even worse, so there is some civilizational progress.
In this case chronic contrarianism is not helpful.
"The Ukraine conflict is one of the clearest examples of good vs. evil in the past century"
One of? I agree, though within last century we had a lot of such conflicts. Like Poland getting invaded by Germany-Russia alliance to take example of turbo-evil countries invading really flawed country, which nevertheless can be accurately described as good vs evil. Despite that Poland had a lot of issues. More than modern Ukraine has.
Wawel
2yr ago
So it goes. Civilization is skin-deep, there's dirt on every collective body, and the cheapest way to excuse one's group is to dogpile on the common enemy. (...) In Eurasia, Russian people.
I agree that reflexive oppression of all Russians and all Russian-adjacent things is a bad idea.
But I want to point out that Russian state IS a common enemy and was for quite a long time. They refuse to disavow tsarist and communist imperialist - but rather try to continue with it. I am from Poland and I would prefer to avoid Russia expanding westward, mostly because I prefer to avoid Russian occupation for reasons that should be obvious. I donated substantial amount of money with direct purpose of killing Russian invaders in Ukraine and my main complaint with large scale military support is that we should do more. I am not unique here, and that is because Russia is a clear enemy, as direct result of their decisions.
And Russian government has substantial support among Russian population.
Estonia, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Geogia, Kazachstan by all indicators are not interested in being vassal states.
I would prefer to avoid travel ban from Russia to Europe. But mostly to enable escape for deported Ukrainians and to enable brain drain.
Armenia has committed war crimes, and sides with Russia&Iran. NATO-aligned Turks and Azeris have committed a genocide – the genocide, class-defining one – against Armenians, and are killing Armenians as I type; this is their hero.
Note what USA did (not sure whether Pelosi visit will have any effects but they are at least trying).
Wawel
2yr ago
For me?
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I am not aware of sympathetic and non-terrible countries fighting with USA. Overall in Middle-East it is quite hard to find sympathetic countries. It is hard to find country where giving them military or political boost would improve things.
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My country was repeatedly invaded by Russia and current Russian imperialism is again a direct threat. That is among reasons why Poland accepted over 2 000 000 refugees from Ukraine and gave substantial military and financial support. 230 tanks, 40 IFV, 38 self propelled artillery, including modern Krabs, crowdfounded Bayraktar TB2 and plenty of important but less flashy stuff.
but not Saudi Arabia
I deeply dislike Saudi Arabia and hard for me to say anything positive about them, but there is nothing actionable I can do there. Unlike in case of Ukraine.
And in case of Ukraine I housed refugees from town shelled by Russian army and donated substantial amount of money to fund killing Russian invaders.
And the offense that that 110th country might attack the 120th country, when the 120th has been shelling civilians for 8 years and waging war against independent regions...
Which country you mean here? Because calling pseuodrepublic in Ukraine "independent regions" is ridiculous.
Are you sure? From what I know Ukrainians were not using limited capability for shelling random villages but rather targeting military infrastructure and things like major power substations in places with military bases.
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