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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What’s going on in Ukraine is incredibly complicated. I’m not condoning everything Russia is doing there, far from it, but to call it out as a good vs evil war is frankly a simpleton view. Russia is bad there. Everyone is bad there. It’s a huge mess. But I think it’s important to recognise that the Russians' aim is to restore order in a neighbourhood country, to prevent American influence from growing and to suppress violent Neo-Nazi extremism.

[–] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every lib's real values: white people invaded=the good guys

Brown/Black people invaded=it's complicated us-foreign-policy

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahh that's why Russia used the Wagner group

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think sending a nazi-ish mercenarygroup into the meat grinder against an even more nazi-ish group so that they both wipe each other out (like what happened in Bahkmut) is good actually