I was feeling masochistic so I browsed reddit logo for a while, and remembered that all pro-Ukraine folks seem to take this as a fact. I remember trying to look into this and not finding any evidence, and angry libs were not exactly forthcoming with sources themselves.

So besides the initial feint towards Kyiv (which AFAIK is circumstantial at best) was there ever any evidence pointing towards some Russian plan to eventually annex the entirety of Ukraine?

  • loathesome dongeaterAEnglish
    16·
    6 months ago

    There is zero evidence for this. This theorycrafting emerges from the western assumption that Russia is an empire trying to expand. This notion is ridiculous if you consider the post USSR dissolution history.

    I asked this same question on lemmy.ml and the closest thing to evidence that I got was in this comment: https://lemmy.ml/comment/6359409

    If you go to the comment and read the quote, it is full of hypotheticals and from a literal US military institute. This is the level of brainworms that western propagandists are operating at right now.

    • albiguOP
      13·
      6 months ago

      This is so strange to me, because if there were any such large scale annexation plans involving their army, I’d expect there’d to be dozens of leaks of such secret intentions. But besides that, it means that basically every vocal Ukraine supporter hasn’t even bothered checking that the most foundational fact of their narrative is even believable. Reddit and 4chan are cut from the same cloth.