I was searching through RIA Novosti feed (ew) for some solid 10 minutes to find at least one mention of someone getting killed in Ukrainian strike at Russian oil bases. They didn’t even bother making up any casualties despite never providing any sources in their Telegram channel and sometimes writing some wildest shit Russian propaganda has to offer.

So even that point is extremely wrong even if one was to play devil’s advocate and say that strike on apartment complex and strike on oil industry (that literally fuels the invasion) are equal. That person just constructed a narrative for themselves where Ukraine is to blame for being invaded.

Did you read these articles yourself?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_in_Russia_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

The main targets have been the military, the arms industry and the oil industry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_negotiations_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

In January 2024, Putin again made statements which suggested, according to the Institute for the Study of War, that his “maximalist objectives in Ukraine” remained unchanged, “which are tantamount to full Ukrainian and Western surrender”. He again called for the overthrow of the Ukrainian government.

It’s not that I didn’t know any of these, it’s just that you just provided sources that debunk your own arguments.

Just few weeks ago Putin said in a speech (rough translation):

Russia is where Russian soldiers foot stepped.

Which is like, one of most fascist things I’ve ever heard. I’ll even provide Russian source:

https://topwar.ru/266695-tam-gde-stupaet-noga-russkogo-soldata-nashe-putin-podcherknul-chto-rossija-ne-trebuet-kapituljacii-ukrainy.html

Not to mention Russian denial of the very existence of Ukrainian identity and statehood, which he also did in that same speech.

Man, just read these sources, because you’re repeating Taco Don’s rhetoric about “kids fighting in a sandbox”.

Can you elaborate on Ukrainian salvos please? And also - on Russian peace proposals too.

No, Ukraine did not have any great “score” earlier as with operation “Spiderweb” to “provoke” such attack.

It was just our Constitution Day yesterday. Just so people here understand what Russians mean by “root causes of conflict”.

I’m more than sure that climate change will negatively impact the economy.

So I’d just say that there is something for shareholders (not to mention investment opportunities in green technologies), it’s just that some people greedy shits who don’t think about what happens in future.

That’s a really bad take.

Yes, people on previously Soviet-occupied territories that were occupied by Germans in WW2 often first met nazis with flowers as liberators, and even captured Soviet generals would at first slip some words that were quite critical of Soviet leadership.

But, as time passed on, the attitudes changed, so there was increase in guerilla activity and also some initial collaborators became rebels. That is simply because people started realizing how nazis were worse than anything.

I’ll say most Ukrainians wish both sides “best of luck” (source: I’m Ukrainian) - to Israel because they supplied Lancet and Orlan technologies to Russia, to Iran because they supplied Shaheds and ballistic missiles to Russia, so these things are what directly impacted our lives and made them much worse.

As for why Zelensky sings praises for Taco Don from time to time - I don’t believe that latter one can be swayed to help Ukraine (and Zelensky probably doesn’t believe that too) but there’s still Congress, that is somewhat cooperative from time to time, and we really need these sanctions that Taco Don now tries to delay and dilute.

Tankies are folks who follow ideologies such as stalinism or stalinist-adjacent ones (e.g. trotskyism, maoism).

Here “libshits” takes most of the scale, because I’ve been called that a bunch of times, despite certainly not being a liberal or even in the center or right wing, and I’m kinda salty.

Farmers in New Zealand are organized into cooperative, probably the biggest and most successful cooperative there is, and there’s almost zero subsidizing from state for them.

That’s what he says.

Ukrainian special services, on the other hand, point out servers and most Telegram employees residing in St. Petersburg and claim that he made few dozen visits to Russia since his alleged flight from there.

I’d add up a bit. The idea expressed there is also basically dismissing Ukrainian subjectivity, and that is exactly what Russians do all the time.

Their ideology locked them in such a position where either Russia exists or free independent Ukraine exists, because they treat Ukraine as “Russia’s missing piece”.

This is why I naively believe that if any ceasefire actually happens (even if slightly unfavorable for Ukraine) - Russia will simply subsequently self-destruct.

That may be hypocritical, but having hostile neighbour, that itself doesn’t respect any conventions (and Russians absolutely don’t mind anti-personnel landmines among other things such as cluster munitions and chemical warfare) is a good stimuli to rethink ones principles.

I think the initial motive for her appointment may have been to later eat her face. Turncoat who doesn’t mind taking money from Russia, Iran, even Assad. Of course she’d say Iran wasn’t building a nuke (peaceful 60% enriched uranium, y’know).

They specifically placed the most useless person as head of intelligence to paralyze entire agency and then dismiss it.

Good thing Lemmy is safe since .ml folks agree with MAGA on lots of things. 🌝

Eh, I wouldn’t put Gabbard and truth in one sentence though. Girl has been taking money from Assad at some point, which is like the lowest low.

The fact that Russian delegation in Istanbul among other things demanded that “both sides will refrain from suing each other in court” just tells that they know really good how fucked they’d be in Hague.

There’s some older article I found: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/uk-dutch-spy-agencies-curb-intel-flow-to-austria-over-russia-ties-mp-idUSKCN1RL2CL/

And if I didn’t dream it up (can’t find exact source, sorry) Austria whilst not in NATO was part of NATO intelligence sharing network back in 2022, but they were booted at some point due to leaking info to Russia.

Thank you Austria, but we still remember how you leaked NATO intelligence to Russia, so get bent.

Well, they’ve been going for a while now. I’m Ukrainian-speaking in daily life (and has been for my whole life), but I’m fairly fluent in Russian simply because it was everywhere - TV, Internet, music, and foreign companies didn’t even bother with Ukrainian-speaking demographics when shipping their products (i mean, for example, markings on appliances and such) or releasing software with Ukrainian language until we had laws that demanded that, they just did Russian, because “they’ll understand it anyway”.

While I remained Ukrainian-speaking, some people bought the idea of Russian culture being trendy and modern in contrast to Ukrainian being portrayed as rural and simpleton. And that was just “long war” , before it even went into open hostility - there were years, decades, even centuries of such conditioning, but also periodic revivals of Ukrainian culture.