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  • LeniX@lemmygrad.mltoWorld News@lemmygrad.ml•Putin announces 72-hour Victory Day ceasefire
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    4 months ago

    the racism in russia

    Wasn’t it “the West” who came up with the idea of “Asiatic hordes” (which is repurposed Nazi propaganda btw), “orcs” and “untermenschen”? Wasn’t it “the West” who spread the narrative of “relatively European, relatively civilized”, temporary “white” Ukrainians when it was convenient for them? I don’t think you understand what racism is and where it came from.

    Historically, racism and “races” were Western European inventions that served the purpose of justifying hereditary slavery and colonialism. Here’s an interesting thing - it never went away. One look at Gaza, Palestine or the Arab world in general should tell you as much.

    Racism is also believing western “sources” are inherently, magically more trustworthy than any Russian outlets without doing any outside material analysis of the actual details of history. We do not trust either side, we don’t have to - we analyze the information through a materialist ideological lens.

  • LeniX@lemmygrad.mltoWorld News@lemmygrad.ml•Putin announces 72-hour Victory Day ceasefire
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    4 months ago

    Yes, because reddthat libs clearly understand more than what CNN/NBC/ABC/XYZ western propaganda press says. You people were unable to point Ukraine on a map four days before Feb 24, and yet you pretend you’re fucking experts on the region and its history, with your stupid smirks and remarks. You ignored the time the US empire (the actual aggressor) conducted two color revolutions in Ukraine, including one that ended in a violent coup in 2014. You ignored the broken promises and Minsk agreements, you ignored 8 years of the AFU shelling the living shit out of people in the Donbass. You ignored the US nazifying Ukraine and pumping it full of NATO weapons, you ignored the US unilaterally torpedoing the INF treaty, you ignored the nuclear-capable Aegis missile systems in Romania and Poland painfully close to Russia’s borders.

    That’s the thing, though - they wanted to start a proxy war, and for that they needed to present Russia as the aggressor while erasing every single thing they did to provoke Russia into some sort of response. Otherwise there is no justification for “helping” Ukraine. Otherwise the narrative falls apart at its seams.

  • LeniX@lemmygrad.mltoGeopolitics@lemmygrad.ml•What are the possibilities for peace in Ukraine?
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    5 months ago

    But they have other options to get what they want if that isn’t possible.

    Totally agree.

    The war has revitalized a lot of industry, inflation is under control and their economic growth is looking pretty healthy, especially compared with the dire situation we in the EU are in.

    Agree, but it would be better still not to spend a shit ton of raw materials on fuel, shells, FABs, nitrocellulose etc and reorient or stockpile those too. Also, Russia still experiences demographic issues which go way back to WW2/Great Patriotic War. Even though the casualties are small compared to the AFU’s horrific losses, and they can absorb more, it’s still around 100K KIA and 400K wounded, not to mention the horrors of PTSD and stuff. There’s a reason they push for their “traditional values” reactionary bullshit. It’s better not to lose more people AND achieve all the SMO goals, it’s better to stop the slaughter.

  • LeniX@lemmygrad.mltoGeopolitics@lemmygrad.ml•What are the possibilities for peace in Ukraine?
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    5 months ago

    Why would Russia accept anything but a full and definitive settlement of the security problem when it can simply continue advancing until all that they want is achieved militarily anyway?

    Just because they can does not mean they should. There are drawbacks in each and every resolution scenario, all of them clash with Russia’s desire for furthering their economic development.

    I agree that Prashad is very mistaken, the Korean DMZ is the least likely scenario, imho fuck that shit. I also think Russia will achieve security on their western border whichever way it will go.