• Liberal Destroyer@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Ukraine has been leading a genocide of ethnic Russians in the Donbas for years, and they’ve been getting far too friendly with NATO.

      The war is happening because Ukraine couldn’t keep to treaties, and took a hard turn towards ethno-nationalism.

      The war isn’t happening because Russia invaded, it’s happening because NATO & Ukraine forced the issue.

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      1 year ago

      Why does there “need to be” war at all?

      Instead of the Russian government, I believe this question should have been pondered harder by the Ukrainian state starting in 2014. They’ve been given about a hundred different outs in the past 8 years alone.

      One party to this conflict has been murdering civilians en masse after repeated generous peace offers. It is not Russia.