• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Russia is terrible on LGBT rights.

    Being a tankie doesn’t mean that you agree with everything any non-Western state does, it just means that you’re critical of war and are willing to consider internationalist perspectives.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah, I don’t fully agree with their decision to intervene in the Ukrainian civil war, just as I don’t agree with Ukraine’s shelling of Donbass in violation of Minsk II, or with the coup and banning of opposition parties that led the disputed territories to declare independence.

        The best case scenario, as has been the case since the start, is for a peace agreement to be reached as soon as possible to prevent further loss of life. Which reactionary government controls the disputed territories isn’t worth people dying over.

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          Yeah, I don’t fully agree with their decision to intervene in the Ukrainian civil war

          Of course Russia had nothing to do with the war. They would never fund and support the separatists, or spread anti Ukrainian propaganda amongst the Russian speaking population, because Putin loves democracy and just wants the best for everyone, of course. /s

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            4 months ago

            Let’s not forget that there would have been no “Ukrainian Civil War” if Russia hadn’t annexed Crimea.

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            4 months ago

            I used precisely one adjective in that comment to describe Russia’s government, could you tell me what it was?

            No response tells me you can’t read.

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              You said you “don’t fully agree” with Russia intervening in the civil war (by shelling kyiv I guess, because theres definitely civil war there). As if they didn’t provoke it in the first place to justify their invasion.

              I also wouldn’t expect people who are criticial of war to say that they “don’t fully agree” with Russia waging a war of aggression and commiting mass murder and war crimes in Ukraine, I would expect some actual condemnation of such atrocities.

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                I used precisely one adjective in that comment to describe Russia’s government, could you tell me what it was?

                Answer the question, please. It’s not hard.