index@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoHow do you make someone understand that being drafted by force and ordered to invade another country is not a good thing?message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareHow do you make someone understand that being drafted by force and ordered to invade another country is not a good thing?index@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoDo you think the people of Ukraine want to be invaded by Russia? You know the same Russia that is constantly killing loads of civilians and is repressing their own people.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoI’m sure many eastern Ukrainians who were getting killed and repressed by their own people for a decade did. Some of them explicitly requested Russian intervention. BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War Consortium News, 2022: Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties? History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV . The post-2014 coup annexation of Crimea want as smoothly as it did because many of the residents wanted it.
Do you think the people of Ukraine want to be invaded by Russia?
You know the same Russia that is constantly killing loads of civilians and is repressing their own people.
I’m sure many eastern Ukrainians who were getting killed and repressed by their own people for a decade did. Some of them explicitly requested Russian intervention.
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The post-2014 coup annexation of Crimea want as smoothly as it did because many of the residents wanted it.