• 8Petros (he/him)
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    Obviously the Ukrainians are proficient both in asymmetric warfare and psyops. Thing to learn.

    • Lenins2ndCat
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      It’s not just “psyops” how can you not see that? There is literally no political opposition in the country anymore. It is far right regime that has shut down all opposition and created a scenario in which anyone that isn’t remotely in line with exactly what the regime wants now ends up on an assassination list.

      Dismissing it as just “psyops” is a defence of a very clear and inarguable act of fascist terror. By dismissing it we would be normalising the act of putting people on assassination lists for saying extremely mild things that a government dislikes.

      Ukraine is acting worse than Israel and people are actively defending and normalising it.

      • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlM
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        Ukraine now gets a free pass for literally everything because HURR DURR RUSSIA BAD! That was made official when Amnesty retracted their report about unethical Ukranian war tactics this month because people freaked out that they would DARE criticise anything about Ukraine. I’m convinced that they can literally open up an extermination camp for Russian POWs with gas chambers and the West will find a way to spin that as either “they need it to defeat Russia” or “Russians are even worse so that makes it okay”, you know, the arguments they used to smear the Amnesty report.

        And these are the people who accuse us (socialists) of “whataboutism”.

      • 8Petros (he/him)
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        -152 years ago

        Having a choice between the Ukrainians and the Russian Empire (self-certified genocidal and literally fascist project) I still chose Ukrainians. Let alone the fact that my place is in the pipeline for Russian invasion, just after Moldova and Prybaltyka.

        Every Russian politician, oligarch, soldier, agent, troll or useful idiot stopped or scared away by the Ukrainians is one less to deal with, when our time comes.

            • Lenins2ndCat
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              1. This is a private news outlet. Not the Russian state.

              2. It does not support your position that they are “self certified genocidal” and "fascist. What you have linked to quite explicitly states “the people are good, the government is bad”.

              You are committing a form of soft holocaust denial when you misuse the term genocide to describe something that is objectively not a genocide. It’s extremely offensive to actual victims of genocide and very damaging when we have to raise the issue of real genocides.

              • @guojing@lemmy.ml
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                -62 years ago

                The holocaust has nothing to do with this. In fact, its kind of funny that you brijg it up, because the holocaust is treated as the worst genocide ever, when the vast majority of people killed by Nazi Germany were ethnic slavs and Russians.

                • Lenins2ndCat
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                  82 years ago

                  The holocaust has nothing to do with this.

                  Distorting the meaning of the term genocide is well recognised as soft holocaust denial and stating this just shows how little you have ever read about the topic of holocaust denial and the muddying of the meaning of the word genocide.

                  • @guojing@lemmy.ml
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                    -52 years ago

                    I dont care what you and your buddies have recognized, and the term “soft holocaust denial” is complete nonsense.

                • Lenins2ndCat
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                  132 years ago

                  I really don’t think that’s a constructive response to someone pointing out you’re doing soft holocaust denial. It’s pretty concerning behaviour actually. Weakening and misusing words like genocide and fascism actively helps fascists.

            • @gun@lemmy.ml
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              102 years ago

              This was Google translated, but I think it gets the same meaning:

              Further denazification of this mass of the population consists in re-education, which is achieved by ideological repression (suppression) of Nazi attitudes and strict censorship

              If I am anticipating your line of thought correctly, this quote should clarify and disproves that this journalist wants to kill the Ukrainian population. That is a bald-faced lie. On top of that, this is an opinion piece in the news. State run or not, it is not an official position of the Russian government.

                • @peeonyou@lemmy.ml
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                  102 years ago

                  Wikipedia is hardly a reliable source. I think you bought some kind of bs and you refuse to see how backwards it has you thinking.

                • @gun@lemmy.ml
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                  92 years ago

                  What you are doing here is a form of gish-galloping. If I had the capacity to debunk everyone who says “Russia is committing genocide!” (of which there are countless), then I should be the UN’s top investigator. Maybe bring up a specific example?

                  But what’s funny is even in that article, at least three people, including the Senior Legal Counsel of the Human Rights Watch are quoted saying that the evidence for genocide is insufficient.

                  • 8Petros (he/him)
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                    Their thinking is theirs, as well. I neither impose my perspective, nor accept other views at a face value. One need to earn my respect and trust first.

                • @gun@lemmy.ml
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                  82 years ago

                  I’ve never heard of this website so seems like an unrelated whataboutism.

                  • 8Petros (he/him)
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                    -92 years ago

                    Mate, the whole OP is about that site. Are you sure you know what thread you are in?