Someone please tell me if Russia has done anything the US hasn't done so far? The Russians haven't done a second Hiroshima, Dresden, or My Lai and I just missed it?

    • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]
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      It's highly likely there have already been assassination attempts against him by fascist and hardcore nationalist who are worried he'd strike a deal with Russia. Every attempt has been blamed on Russia in the western press going off of the same reports and language but there's a dead giveaway here: "Zelensky has been able to avoid these attacks thanks to the cooperation of anti-war intelligence officers in Russia's Federal Security Services (FSB) who tipped off the Ukrainian forces, according to reports."
      Lmao what a fucking joke . There aren't any "hidden anti war" FSB officers giving intelligence to Ukranian officials especially doing it so obviously that it would end up in corporate media . Its a much more plausible explanation that it s the FSB tipping off Zelinsky with Putin's approval. https://www.newsweek.com/volodymyr-zelensky-assassination-ukraine-russia-invasion-survive-war-1684801

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    Bonus: this dumb fuck calls themself a "Marxian economist" idk what's going on in their brain

  • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]
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    If you didn't condemn or even bother to follow the 2014 coup, rise of fascism, or the shelling and rape of Donbass then for the love of God shut the fuck up about Ukraine. Preferably everyone in the west would and just focus on overthrowing this regime including me but I'm a very online article head so I can't help it.

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      If you didn’t condemn or even bother to follow the 2014 coup, rise of fascism, or the shelling and rape of Donbass then for the love of God shut the fuck up about Ukraine. Preferably everyone in the west would and just focus on overthrowing this regime including me but I’m a very online article head so I can’t help it.

      they either don't know about it, or know about it and don't care because they're bourgeois and invested in military stocks and efforts at preventing the birth of a multipolar world

  • Mother [any]
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    They operated a clandestine prison in Afghanistan where prisoners were kept completely in the dark, underfed and tortured. They called it the Salt Pit

    They also killed 4.6 million Koreans

  • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    🙄liberal brain thinking US condemnations are in any way honest.

    US bad ergo things the US calls out must be really bad

    unbelieveable actual humans can be this credulous

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      Lol, couple of weeks ago a comrade here posted a quote from Rosa criticising Lenin and dunking on Ukrainian nationalism as a bourgeois project. Anyone have the link for that?

  • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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    Survive; then the jewish president can disavow the group before idiots confusion desperation for endorsement

    zelensky failed to disavow azov or any of the other banderite freaks who've been ethnically cleansing Russians, Roma, Jews, and LGBT in donbass for 8 years because he takes money from capitalists who fund these military regiments. He is literally a meme president. a US-backed figurehead. a comedian in over his head. He might as well have a gun to his head. If you think he would ever denounce a group of people with more sway than him, who would be more than happy to lynch him for his background, then you've got another thing coming. I have doubts he's even in ukraine still.

    anyway, the president "denouncing" a nazi group does nothing to actually denazify the country. If you're skeptical that Putin is really there to denazify the country, which, good, you should be, then you should also be skeptical of the idea that Zelensky would or could do the same.

    The Jewish president wasn't in a position to disavow or denounce BEFORE The conflict started. Why would he do it after it has ended? His Jewish identity isn't irrelevant either, it's probably one of the many things putting him in danger and probably preventing him from saying anything.

  • shiny [he/him]
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    :maybe-later-kiddo: but we’re supporting bald fascism this time

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    I forget my twitter login. Someone please ask this liberal if this means they're willing to die in a hypothetical Ukrainian Civil War should the Azov Battalion not want to cede all power to the Jewish liberal president. I will contribute $10 to the gofundme for their plane ticket if they agree to die for the war they enable.

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    liberals understand that Nazi's in positions of power will murder people to keep that power challenge

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    Based on the Newsweek article and wiki*edit numbers, Russia seems to have a slightly higher civilian casualty rate on a per week basis than the USA did in Iraq, and this is with official US govt numbers so being super generous to the usa.

    • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]
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      I assume you mean slightly lower. And using US civilian body counts and Wikipedia to gage the civilian casualties of the Shock And Awe invasion of Iraq is literally useless. We know the Pentagon does massive undercounts and conspires to covers up civilian deaths only admitting to them when it's clear as day. I wouldn't trust Russian or Ukranian civilian body counts either.

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        No, I mean that using the most generous estimates I could find the USA killed only slightly fewer civilians on a week by week basis than Russia has so far; the USA was like 240 and russia was like 280. Going with the strongest argument FOR the USA because libs would inevitably say I am using putinganda numbers; the numbers I used for russia came from the UN.

        • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]
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          Some reports literally put Iraqi casualty's at over 300 within 2 days of the invasion, with thousands of injured . The US fired hundreds of cruise missiles into dense slums and dropped 2,000 pound bunker buster bombs leveling building after building, bombed a refugee bus, massacred people in the street. Al-Noor hospital was overflowing within 6 days of the invasion, the 27th of March(US invasion started on the 20th) Abu Taleb massacre alone killed dozens, could recount horror after horror. But go ahead and engage in a form of war crimes denial to appease liberals.

          • CrimsonSage [any]
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            You need to chill the fuck out, I am not denying anything just creating a point of comparison that I ADMITTED is overly generous to the USA implying that ther real number is MUCH WORSE. This is math averaging things over 8 years, not denying all the individual atrocities the US committed.

            • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]
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              I am chill thats just the reality of it, Read Robert Fisks on the ground accounts they're powerful. If you tell liberals "you're right the wiki and pentagons numbers show slightly less civilian casualty's" your just giving them ground and will never change their mind. Hammer home how terrible the US is, recount individual war crimes, assume the largest counts of deaths are correct. We aint gonna make any liberals anti war by saying the Russian Invasion of Ukraine is less bloody then the much more massive US invasion of Iraq. I mean really why bother? If they call you a Putin shill or whatever laugh in their face. And as a general rule one can convince liberals sure but never appease them, they'll have you moving the goal post over and over and over.

              • CrimsonSage [any]
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                I am not arguing with libs though, I was doing it for myself and comrades that needed a point of comparison, you always want to build the strongest case that you can so that if you are wrong you are erring on being wrong in the right direction. Arguing with libs on this is completely pointless because they have completely lost their minds, any statement that doesn't immediately toe the party line makes you worse than a nazi in their eyes. Unjustly accusing people of being war crimes deniers is not fucking cool, and considering we get that shit all the time from libs I would expect better from people here.

                • TheLegendaryCarrot23 [he/him]
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                  Fair enough. Apologies for being grand standing. I guess I've just seen excuses for NATO and Imperialism bleed into online and even irl leftist spaces so much its making me a little too bitter. I had a long time peace activist friend irl literally yelling crap about how Russia cant just get away with this someone has to "do something" blah blah. Its all just so jarring ya know.