• spitfire@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    „I do not know whether to believe you, to believe the government, who to believe, what to think” - hasn’t she been watching the news? I’m sure government told her what she should be thinking.

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    17 hours ago

    To be fair, unlike Russia, Ukraine is not bombing civilians, so while still shocking, I believe for them a bigger problem (edit: threat*) is Putin, not Ukraine.

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      18 hours ago

      Because a large amount of people don’t see Russians as civilians 😭.

      But honestly how does anyone cheer for causing chemical disasters in any city

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        Russia started a war of aggression. A lot of Russians support the war. These civilians live and work in a refinery town that supports the Russian war machine (with oil and gas products).

        The people who work in weapons manufacturing are also civilians even though they are definitely legitimate targets by the laws of war (while at work, anyway).

        Collateral damage from the destruction of legitimate targets is a murkier issue, but generally considered acceptable as long as it’s not deliberately exacerbated.

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        17 hours ago

        Nice framing, fsb bot, іді нахуй! Them regular citizens of different ethnicities, merged by brutal force to become part of this artificially created concentration camp state out there haven’t seen any signs of civilisation for centuries and, therefore, they’ve never used to have a real civilian experience and were constantly treated like a livestock by some militarists. Hopefully, burning oil refineries of gas station country will warm up their frozen hearts and constant internet blackouts will guide them to demolition of kremlin and uncovering interesting shit in fsb archives, which will help them to acknowledge in what a deep shit those chekist nazi-commies dragged world into and how much conflicts, mass murders, ecological disasters and other shit (including dtrump and chinazis) happened mainly because of their activity and unawareness or negligence of those facts by regular people (attention diverting is also a product of their activity). Probably people will have no mercy on fsb for all the shit they’ve caused and will just execute them on spot. Cheers, fuckers

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    Don’t think of it as the war coming home.

    Think of it as one point three million Russian casualties, followed by the war coming home.

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      2.4 mill casualties, probably more if you count those zeroed out by their own commanders. 1.3 mill KIA.

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        19 hours ago

        I am deliberately underreporting.

        I like it when some Russian apologist tries to engage on my “inflated” numbers.

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    To make this about the United States, this would be kind of like hearing a news report about Texans being shocked that Mexico struck back after America bombed them for a solid year and a half.

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    “Mr. President (Vladimir Putin), we went to the polls, we voted for you, we believed in you. And for a while, we really were protected, everything was fine. But at some point, it all collapsed.”

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah, except those who don’t vote for him end up in some kind of trouble, or somehow aren’t counted. They’re forged elections. You know - that thing Trump is trying to Institute here in the United States.

      Trump won two elections with dubious results. It looks like this last one had a whole lot of mysterious votes in all of the Battleground States. Do not believe most Americans support MAGA.

      Do not believe most Russians support Putin, either.