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by iisaev
1566 days ago
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Disclaimer: I am Russian, so you could count all of this as a russian propaganda. We don't want to kill a large number of people at all. In the first days of war, our army even had an order to somehow skip the fights with regular army and fight only so-called "volunteer batallions" - these are real, patented, nazis (google "azov battalion nazis" and you could find a lot of interesting photos). Of course, they failed and right now it is a bloody mess. But look at the videos captured cities - our troops didn't event drop the ukrainian flag and there are demonstrations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JIaJTSWoqQ Do you really think that this city looks like the city after the genocide? Come on. What we really want is no NATO bases everywhere near our border and now looks like the only way (idk, maybe there were others, but Putin decided so) to do it is to destroy ukrainian state completely (the state, not the people). |
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But yes, some of what you're saying is indeed propaganda. This war is unjustified and unjustifiable. I would invite you to watch this video by a Belarusian lieutenant colonel, it's relevant: https://twitter.com/kopiganja/status/1498182268523016195
Now, I want to be clear: That Russian soldiers are disobeying, failing or retreating does not mean this is not a genocidal war. The objective is genocidal, but the objective is stupid enough that the smarter Russian soldiers aren't following it.
> What we really want is no NATO bases everywhere near our border and now looks like the only way (idk, maybe there were others, but Putin decided so) to do it is to destroy ukrainian state completely (the state, not the people).
Okay, well, that's very different from "wanting to eliminate nazis", isn't it? And yes, I know Putin doesn't want NATO on russian borders, but like you said, "maybe there were other [ways]", and choosing the bloodiest one is fucking psychopathic.
Furthermore, I want to remind you that to "destroy the Ukrainian state completely" is still genocidal when Ukrainians DONT WANT YOU TO DO THAT and are rightfully taking up arms to defend themselves.
It is their right to defend themselves from a bully. And if the bully insists, you can't then say "oh well guess I'll have to kill everybody who doesn't want me to absorb their entire culture and identity" without being called genocidal.
Finally, please take a look beyond your own sources when looking at war footage. Here's example drone footage of destroyed civilian structures in Kyiv. https://twitter.com/avalaina/status/1499467690842415109