Nobody interested in the Russia-Ukraine conflict?

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Anyone else nervous about what it's going to mean for the war in Ukraine when the Republicans take back the US government and decide to stop sending aid to Ukranians and perhaps even take a pro-Russian stance?

That's good to know. Honestly anything to keep Russia from taking over Ukraine and other parts of Europe is a good thing in my opinion. Not just because it slightly effects the US and the rest of the world, but I deeply sympathize with the Ukranian people after learning about the starvation genocide they were subjected to under Stalin.

I don't blame their people for never forgiving or forgetting that. And the fact that so far Ukraine has pushed Russia back has given me hope that maybe the wicked don't always win.

Lest we forget. There are quite a few parallels between what Russia is doing in Ukraine now and what the US was doing in Iraq 15-20 years ago. Americans should have a sober perspective on the current situation and talk about the support given to Ukraine by the US with a certain amount of diffidence. Back in those days Americans viewed anybody giving support to Iraqi insurgents as an enemy.

I'm not a fan of Iraqui war but... were you targeting civilian infrastructure on massive scale? Were you claiming Iraquis were not a nation? Were you claiming large parts of Iraqui territory as yours? Were you looting? Were you leaving mass graves and mines in child toys behind?

I know, Iraqui war wasn't a good thing and there were numerous abuses but the "parallels" don't go particularily far.

When it comes to being seen as Russia's enemy, though... we've been like that for decades. Nothing new here, nothing to lose.

Attrocities always happen but they can be of different level.
In particular, thay may be random discipline problems or they may be the very strategy.

Some local guy messaged me on a chat app where I have an anti-russia profile pic and said his wife is Ukranian and he's been there twice a year for several years and that we don't know what's going on over there.. that Zelenskyy was installed by Americans and there are a bunch of German skinheads/nazis there and russia has a right to get rid of them blah blah it's just two sides fighting a war and both think they're in there right and ought to be able to defend their territory.

I've never been there, so can't say for sure what goes on.. and never know, maybe he's visited some pro-russia region near the border - I didn't ask - but in general I think he's kinda nuts. It seems that the basic truth is that russia made up a nonsense reason to invade (nazis) and is waging an illegal war. I mean, there might Actually be a few nazis - apparently there are - but probably fewer than there are in the USA and Canada or Mexico aren't charging into the USA to liberate them from nazis... soooooo.. yeah, I tend to think he has some wild ideas even if they're based on half truths.

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