“Some of you may be willing to die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” but unironically

Edit: The user has since apologised https://hexbear.net/comment/3848285

  • lesseva96@lemm.ee
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    This is in no way equivalent hahaha. What kinda swill do they hand out in the IRA breakrooms these days?

    Russia is invading the heartland of another distinct ethnicity and purging it. Ukraine is not doing that. It is simply clamping down on political liberties to ensure a stable war economy and political situation. This happens in every country that is forced to fight for it’s own existence.

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          Rescuing children from a warzone is genocide? Are you serious, you do realize the majority of those children are native Russian speakers and are reunited with their families when they’re located, like you do know those basic facts right, and aren’t just talking out your ass?

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            Those children should have been led to Ukraine to reunite with their Ukranian relatives since they are citizens of Ukraine. And if you are not talking out of your ass, would you kindly provide proof that they’re “reunited with their families when they’re located” and not just assigned to whichever family is keen to get govt money for raising kids?

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              MF the Ukrainian state doesn’t give a shit about Russian-speaking children or their relatives, hence the fact millions of Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens fled to Russia, their relatives are in Russia and if they’re not then it’s the responsibility of the Kiev regime to negotiate in good faith with the Russian authorities to reunite the families, but again the nazis in Kiev don’t give a fuck about the children beyond their use as propaganda tools

              You literally don’t know basic facts about Ukraine or the conflict, instead of basing your takes on your bullshit intuition maybe go do some basic research

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          I’m sorry, what does that have to do with “purging” as it relates to genocide? Surely you understand that relocating orphans - not “purging” them - and then repatriating them when their Ukrainian family can be found does not constitute genocide, right? This is basic, “what do words mean” level shit, so if you’re having trouble here then you might need to take a few steps back on making declarative statements about geopolitics.

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      lmao the Ukrainian state was committing those actions before the invasion you dumb fuck, hence the civil war between the years 2014 and 2022, also trying to erase the identity of half your population is not an example of a wartime measure, it’s ethnic cleansing and the Ukrainians are pretty open about it

      Hence why the separatist Russian-speaking regions (especially Crimea) should win the war and prevent the expansion of state backed neo-nazism

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      Perhaps the Ukrainians should concentrate the population that shows Russian sympathy into small camps

      You know, to keep a better eye on them and to ensure the security of the Ukrainian identity against the perfidy of the Russian abhumans

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      Russia is invading the heartland of another distinct ethnicity and purging it.

      Do you think Russia is running death camps? Where are these purges supposedly taking place?

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      the heartland of another distinct ethnicity

      Kievan Rus exists

      Russian and Ukranian are almost the same language, as different as modern English is from Shakespearian English

      Why do white people try to create ethnic differences where none exist? Russians and Ukranians are visually / genetically / culturally pretty much identical. It’s like saying North Korea invaded South Korea to purge it of Koreans!