[threatofrain]

Putin ordered Russian forces to be on the highest level of nuclear readiness. We have programs on Russian state TV where people talk about using nuclear weapons to drown the UK and devastate the European coast with a nuclear tsunami. This is a scary time we live in.

The conversation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine may now be centered on NATO, but it began with statements of routine training exercises at the border and escalated to the de-Nazification of Ukraine. Russia has not done well to reach the hearts of its neighbors.

That we have to reach past the Cold War into the American Civil War to discuss amicable relations does not bode well.

[avgcorrection]

If Russophobia is a widespread phenomenon then it started way before 2022.

[watwut]

When Russia bombed Syrian hospitals ... invaded Chehenia and other countries ... had assasins murder people living EU, likely caused explosion in Czechs (2014), likely shut down plane, supported dictators around the world ...

Common, Ukrainian invasion did not happened out of blue. And I don't even mention Russia actively trying to influence politics of ther countries to the worst.

[avgcorrection]

Let’s put it like this: being critical of the American government does not force you to be Americophobic.

> invaded Chehenia

Invaded their own territory.

[watwut]

Nah. It was not theirs. It was invasion twice.

Just because you was stole something does not mean you can steal it again and again every time owners get it back.

[avgcorrection]

Are the states of the US, Canada, and Australia (to name a few) on stolen land?

[SemanticStrengh]

how do you deal with the insane double standard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc#/media/File:... I'm not advocating against russophobia per se, but americanophobia seems similarly legitimate

[threatofrain]

A very general western hatred (not merely US!) has been brewing over Russian social media for awhile now, and the conversation of whether to deny Russians their prerogative to hate the west is not really there. There isn't even much conversation on western media as to what the state of Russian social media is even like.

[watwut]

That 1972 picture somehow implies none of Russian escalation of aggression between late 1990 and 2022 happened?

Should we go into how many countries Russia occupied at that point and how oppressive and murderous it was?