Must watch for any non-hexbear and lemmygrad instance users that are looking for a better explanation as to what lead to the Ukraine conflict. Spread it far and wide!
For a longer, more detailed analysis, see this video: https://hexbear.net/post/347122
Is there an archive of this video somewhere
If watching that one, also worth watching this response to the video.
No thanks, I’d much rather have liberals call me a Putin apologist, make weird sexual assault metaphors, and suggest the fight go down to the last Ukrainian like a Marvel movie
Imagine if the internet had existed during the Vietnam war? shudders
Ukrainian neo-Nazi leader: “We the only ones who are ready to carry out the tasks of the West”
On February 5th, at the nationalist forum “Bandera Readings” in Kiev, the leader of the infamous neo-Nazi movement “C14” Yevgeny Karas said that they were now given so many weapons because they are “the only ones who are ready to carry out the tasks of the West”, because “we have fun killing and we have fun fighting”
According to Karas, “EuroMaidan” had nothing to do with “Euro-integration” wishes, but everything to do with nationalists’ wishes to change course of the country. It follows from Karas’ theses that the West does not want the ultra-right to gain political power but they want for the nationalists to retain control over the street, and if needed - to “fight and kill.”
Let’s do a little mini dunk tank in here and read this: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gravel-institute-deleted-tweets-reveal-a-progressive-groups-ukraine-meltdown
I’ll start: These dishonest little shits at the daily beast conflate the results of the Dec 1991 Ukrainian Independence Referendum with “how many people have a Ukrainian national identity”. As if that referendum didn’t happen in an incredibly tumultuous time in their history, in which circumstances (and a coup or two) had already made the dissolution of the soviet union very much inevitable. And you still saw 45% of ethnic russians vote for it in vain! But liberals are allergic to context.
When we say “they are a tiny minority but these neo nazis have been given disproportionate political power” liberals clap back “nuh uh they’re actually a tiny minority, also look at zelensky” when the video explicitly makes clear that these people and parties do not have majority support (hence why zelensky’s peace platform was popular! The problem is that he didn’t stick to it.)
These dishonest little shits at the daily beast conflate the results of the Dec 1991 Ukrainian Independence Referendum with “how many people have a Ukrainian national identity”. As if that referendum didn’t happen in an incredibly tumultuous time in their history, in which circumstances (and a coup or two) had already made the dissolution of the soviet union very much inevitable.
It’s gone back and forth, back and forth again in history. In the past year and a half though, it’s completely settled. Ukraine definitely wants to be independent of Russia now.
