Quote (thesnipa @ 28 Feb 2024 12:33)
No, im not a marxist. i dont support killing of people i disagree with. i support the free speech of nazis. principles are a good thing to have.
see bad vs worse. i can cherry pick and criticize US arms deals, and do. but there's a VERY short list of good arms deals for the russian side. who is a "good" russian arms customer? serious question. the US funds lots of places i'd say are subjectively "good".
that's a pretty big oversimplification.
-there was a groundswell ukrainian revolution brewing
-the US tossed some gas on it
-rebels take the capital mostly with casualties on the rebel side
-russian proxies retreat to russia
-donbas and other regions mount a counter insurgency with russian funding
-new rebel govt uses US weapons to try (and failed) to crush the insurgency
i think that last step specifically was a bad mistake by the Zelensky govt, it gave far too much pretense for invasion. he'd have been better off in the short term allowing them to act even as a nation within a nation while he shored up his new govt. those bombings were a bad move.
To the first point, you'll have to convince me marxists are people first. Isn't it funny how every time Marxists get in power millions die? When a dog goes mad, you kill it for the safety of all. The Marxist mad dog led to tens of millions dead in Russia. I'd say, given the toll it took on the nation, anyone attempting to restore communism SHOULD be killed.
To the second point, Russia isn't supporting and funding and providing weapons to people actively attacking the US. Weird that the US is doing all the above to those attacking Russia and the Republics it's attempting to liberate.
To the third part, just LOL. Attempts to justify a violent, West-Backed revolution, followed by the prompt ethnic Genocide of ethnic Russians is not gonna fly here. I'm okay with you supporting Ukraine. You don't need to try to re-write history in such a way that it's suddenly "virtuous". I'm more concerned that hundreds of billions worth of US Tax Dollars and hundreds of billions more worth of US Military Weaponry have been STOLEN from the taxpayer and GIVEN, not even loaned, GIVEN to a nation that isn't our ally, isn't our trade partner, and doesn't benefit the US Taxpayer in any way.