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nekandro@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid

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Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid

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nekandro@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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In his starkest warning yet, President Zelenskyy said that "Ukraine will lose the war" to Russia if Congress does not act to send it more aid.
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      there are fascists in Ukraine, like in a lot of countries

      Most countries don’t have a fascist government that violently suppresses the left. Israel and Ukraine are about the only ones (and maybe Modi’s India to an extent?) right now.

      It’s not about a “right” to invade. The point is this was the only option left with a coup gov that doesn’t care about prior peace agreements, kills people for resisting (like Eastern Ukrainians in DPR & LPR and Crimeans), and is being blocked by the US and UK from negotiating.

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          Eastern Ukrainians “resisting” are Russian soldiers

          Lol can you even read the comments you’re replying to?

          • BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
          • Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
          • Truthout, 2015: The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made
          • 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
          • The Conversation, 2022: Ukraine war follows decades of warnings that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe could provoke Russia

          This is fucking “everyone is Hamas” tier shit

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          Lmfao username checks out with how fucking burger-brained this comment is

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          Do you work for the Atlantic Council or the Council on Foreign Relations or something? 🤡

          amerikkka nato-cool eu-cool france-cool

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      Russia has no right to carry out a genocide—any more than Ukraine had the right to carry one out on people of the Donbas for almost a decade—but then again Russia isn’t carrying out one, despite what Five Eyes governments & corporate media insist.

      I will concede that there are a few fascist elements in Russia, but they aren’t in power, and one of their most well-known figures (to Westerners at least) recently died.

      • 2007: Video: Alexei Navalny Compares Muslims to Cockroaches
      • BBC, 2021: Amnesty [International] strips Alexei Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status
      • Workers World, 2024: Who was Alexei Navalny? A violent white supremacist and fascist on U.S. payroll

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      Neither Navanly nor the Azov Battalion are aberrations: the US has been maintaining fascist cells in Europe our whole lives, as a backstop against Europe ever gaining a real independence from the US, or worse, becoming socialist.

      The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It


      Edit to add:

      In particular, the US doesn’t want Europe and Russia to develop closer ties, because it doesn’t want the “Eurasian landmass” to ever cohere, because it would become too self-sufficient and powerful for the US to control. Zbigniew Brzezinski laid this theory out when the Soviet Union fell. That’s why the US tried to convince Europe not to build Nord Stream 2 and then later not to turn it on, why Biden said he would “bring an end to it” if Russia invaded, and why they ultimately did bring an end to it.

      The US also very much wants regime change or balkanization in Russia so it can resume its neocolonial plundering of it, which started under Yeltson and ended under Putin.

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        Holy cow,

        In the 1990s he formulated the strategic case for buttressing the independent statehood of Ukraine, partially as a means to prevent a resurgence of the Russian Empire,[citation needed] and to drive Russia toward integration with the West, promoting instead “geopolitical pluralism” in the space of the former Soviet Union. He developed “a plan for Europe” urging the expansion of NATO, making the case for the expansion of NATO to the Baltic countries.

        Any ideas where I can find out more about Brzenzinski’s plans after the fall of the Soviet Union?

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          The CIA gives his book away for free: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/36/36669B7894E857AC4F3445EA646BFFE1_Zbigniew_Brzezinski_-_The_Grand_ChessBoard.doc.pdf

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        Why are you citing Navalny (granted, fascist) and not Dugin, Rogozin and Prokhanov who are actually close to the current government?

        And let’s not forget about Putin’s obsession with Ilyin, who, and I don’t want to put words incorrectly here, is a literal fascist, like a canonical one.

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          I don’t know why people keep bring up Dugin:

          His right-hand man is Aleksandr Dugin

          Bullshit. Dugin is a Western chauvinist fascist who is ideologically aligned with the Ukrainian coup government and the Ukrainian Nazis who terrorized the Donbas for almost a decade before Russia intervened two years ago. In what universe is he Putin’s “right-hand man”?

          The US would absolutely love to have a regime change that put Dugin in power, because he would invite the American shock therapists back in to finish the plundering that they started in the ’90s under Yeltsin, and that Putin put an end to.

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            terrorized the Donbas for almost a decade before Russia intervened two years ago

            You mean the Donbas where Ukraine was fighting Russia after they annexed Crimea?

            How can you terroriza your own country that was invaded?

            Are you completely ignoring the fact Russia annexed Crimea just so you can carry water for Putin? What is your agenda?

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              My agenda is (1) to save the lives & livelihoods of working class people and (2) anti-imperialism. My agenda is not to carry water for Ukraine’s neoliberal government, which has allowed Global North capitalists to neocolonize it to the detriment of its people.

              You mean the Donbas where Ukraine was fighting Russia after they annexed Crimea?

              The Donbas is not Crimea; they don’t even touch.

              In 2014 the US facilitated a coup, installing a far-right comprador government, because the democratically elected government was insufficiently subservient to US interests. In response, Russia annexed Crimea, a region whose history and people were more aligned with Russia. There wasn’t much fighting involved because the people of Crimea largely welcomed this.

              But getting back to the Donbas: how is bombing apartment complexes in one’s own country for nearly a decade “fighting Russia”? That was a neonazi ethnic cleansing project with the support of their own government and the CIA.

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            He’s not Putin’s right hand man, I have never claimed it

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            The US would absolutely love to have a regime change that put Dugin in power

            https://t.me/Agdchan/. Just read him with a translator. There are people like Pinochet and there are completely different people like Dugin

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