If Putin is a madman colonialist bully to you, NATO has succeeded in brainwashing you. Caitlin is not detached from reality, you are. You are okay with NATO invading Russia and surrounding it with Aegis missile system, but Russia protecting Donbas citizens from Ukraine is madman dictator shit. To you, Zelensky, who has a 25% approval rate and jailed the democratically elected Poroshenko and banning opposition media, is not dictatorship, but Putin is a madman. You have been convinced by NATO and its controlled media.
Greenwald fell off long ago after the Snowden saga. When Ukraine was attacking and killing Donbas citizens for 8 years, where was this resistance and media hullabaloo? Or is it selective Cold War bias going on?
You are okay with NATO invading Russia and surrounding it with Aegis missile system
I’m not OK with either. But NATO did not invade Russia and AFAIK is not planning to. There is zero evidence to believe
Russia protecting Donbas citizens from Ukraine
I have no problems with that. But that’s not what’s happening: there is a full-scale invasion going on threatening the capital of Ukraine, where Putin’s demands go far beyond independence for Donbass.
To you, Zelensky, who has a 25% approval rate and jailed the democratically elected Poroshenko and banning opposition media
What the hell are you talking about? I may be missing some details, but Poroshenko’s wikipedia page does not mention incarceration, but mentions losing in the elections to Zelensky. To quote the article:
There was no true consensus (…) why Poroshenko lost (…) [:] opposition to intensifying nationalism, failure to stem corruption, dissatisfaction of overlooked Russian-speaking regions with his presidency (…) He is considered an oligarch due to the scale of his business holdings in the manufacturing, agriculture and financial sectors, his political influence that included several stints at government prior to his presidency, and ownership of an influential mass-media outlet. (…) His presidency was distilled into a three-word slogan, employed by both supporters and opponents: armiia, mova, vira. In translation from Ukrainian, it is: military, language, faith.
I’m not saying Zelensky is much better, but you seem to be ardent to defend an actual bourgeois fascist whose slogan is “military, language, faith” and inventing conspiracies around him? I mean if you do have reliable sources contradicting this Wikipedia article, please help improve it.
Or is it selective Cold War bias going on?
Yes there’s selective cold war propaganda going on. And you’re fully subscribed to one side of it. I personally am very critical of both sides of the propaganda, and supportive of the civilians and internationalist socialists/communists/anarchists suffering due to political repression on both sides of the border. As much as you dismiss Greenwald, he’s doing a correct journalistic job on this topic: he’s presenting the lies from both sides and supporting the victims (the populations). You’re just a puppet of the Russian Empire. Which side are you on? Are you on the same side as Putin and NATO and other vampires playing the same game of geopolitics? Or are you on the side of the people who struggle against oppression and aim for self-organization at all levels of society?
But NATO did not invade Russia and AFAIK is not planning to. There is zero evidence to believe
NATO wants to eat communism for breakfast, Russia for lunch and China for dinner. What makes you think otherwise? Imperialist propaganda since Cold War has been pretty much about this.
Putin’s demands go far beyond independence for Donbass.
Quoting should help here, because Putin’s recent speech tells otherwise.
Yes there’s selective cold war propaganda going on. And you’re fully subscribed to one side of it.
One side… that has 0% representation in current media for SOME reason.
You’re just a puppet of the Russian Empire.
Thanks, I got called one by few people, I am used to getting called “wumao” and “Chinese plant” too, so I guess I will take it as a badge of honour for standing for the truth.
Are you on the same side as Putin and NATO and other vampires playing the same game of geopolitics? Or are you on the side of the people who struggle against oppression and aim for self-organization at all levels of society?
Good question. You look to be on the side of Ukraine, that wants to prevent the oppressed people of DPR and LPR to have independence, and you support NATO by omission of argument as well. Your first question mixing Putin and NATO on the same side is a fallacy, and I will assume it is intentional, since you called me “Russian puppet”.
You are a fake leftist. I hope all of you supporting NATO lies learn a lesson of recognising propaganda and learn some morality soon. SWIFT sanctions in place means the struggle will not be too long now.
One side… that has 0% representation in current media for SOME reason.
That’s definitely not true. You are the proof of this. While many national outlet are spewing NATO propaganda, others are spewing Kremlin propaganda. I’m hoping we can have more balanced information on lemmy.ml, that accounts for psyops on both sides of the conflict.
Quoting should help here, because Putin’s recent speech tells otherwise.
I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border. (…) First a bloody military operation was waged against Belgrade. (…) Then came the turn of Iraq, Libya and Syria. (…) in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia
Geopolitical concerns between the two big empires (Russia and NATO), nothing about Ukrainian separatists. Though in this part of the speech, Putin presents separatism (in the Caucasus presumably) as morally wrong and dangerous.
they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human nature.
Being slightly informed about Putin’s fight for cis-hetero-patriarchy, this appears to be anti-LGBT propaganda. Nothing to do with ukrainian separatists.
Moreover, these past days NATO leadership has been blunt in its statements that they need to accelerate and step up efforts to bring the alliance’s infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders. (…) The problem is that in territories adjacent to Russia, which I have to note is our historical land, a hostile “anti-Russia” is taking shape.
Once again this is about sovereign nations and their choice of military alliances (i.e. not Russia), nothing to do with ukrainian separatists. Special note that Putin explicitly appropriates Ukraine territory (“our historical land”) and in the same sentence acknowledges that his colonial stature fuels “anti-Russia” sentiment.
For our country, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation. This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty.
This is highly debatable. Russia is a major military power and has weapons capable of destroying half of Europe and Asia. In the “delicate balance of terror”, there is no indication that the balance has been broken (despite NATO expansionism, Putin still has one-click “life-or-death” button over much of the world) and Putin is not providing any evidence for Russia to be under risk of military attacks.
For eight years, for eight endless years we have been doing everything possible to settle the situation by peaceful political means.
Saying “i won’t destroy you if you don’t become friends with my enemy” is not peaceful political means. It’s threats.
We had to stop that atrocity, that genocide of the millions of people who live there and who pinned their hopes on Russia, on all of us. (…) the showdown between Russia and these forces cannot be avoided. It is only a matter of time
Putin talks about a genocide which beyond ordinary (and yes, unfair) State repression does not exist in Ukraine, and never provided any evidence for that. If anything, there is evidence that much of this spectacle was planned in advance (video metadata in official releases). And once again, Putin does not provide any evidence that Russia is in any way threatened.
Moreover, they went as far as aspire to acquire nuclear weapons.
There is exactly zero evidence for that that i could find. On the contrary, Ukraine used to be a major nuclear power in the times of the USSR and agreed to dismantle its entire arsenal in order to acquire relative peace with both Russia and NATO. This sounds a lot like the Bush administration’s “weapons of mass-destruction” narrative in Iraq back in the early 2000s.
Russia accepted the new geopolitical reality after the dissolution of the USSR. We have been treating all new post-Soviet states with respect
As the military repression (some would say civil war) in muslim States (such as Checheny) and in Caucasus has shown, Russia has been treating separatists and ordinary citizens way worse than the Ukrainian has ever treated the people of Donetsk (at least from what we know publicly so far).
To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation. (…) It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force.
So they don’t plan to occupy the country, yet they are bombing the capital and intend to impose (“not by force” ?!) their laws and judicial systems, as well as fully demilitarize a sovereign nation. Is that not a textbook example of a colonialist invasion?
You look to be on the side of Ukraine, that wants to prevent the oppressed people of DPR and LPR to have independence
I’m on the side of the people, against Nation States and borders. I recognize the autonomy of local community and am ready to support people struggling for their independence. I’m not on the side of Ukraine and i’m not on the side of Russia, and i’m certainly not on the side of NATO as i’m anti-France, but i also have to be against Russia on this because they’re the ones who “fired” and keeps on shooting.
Your first question mixing Putin and NATO on the same side is a fallacy
On the contrary, it’s the only reasonable analysis. Putin and NATO are two sides of the same dice of colonialist garbage. I stand with the people not with governments, as is a foundational principle of socialism (i strongly recommend some historical socialist/anarchist anti-war propaganda). Overall, i strongly recommend that you listen to the demands and cries of comrades on both sides of the border.
One side… that has 0% representation in current media for SOME reason.
That’s definitely not true. You are the proof of this.
LOL. This is intentional grift. I do not even have a soapbox unlike NATO media which has hundreds of orchestras disseminating lies around the world at this very moment.
You are definitely dishonest, intentional or not. Your whole trope has been denialism of NATO’s involvement and threat against Russia since yesterday, and it is clear what arguments you are using. Everytime it is denialism to cancel out any of Russia’s concerns, while balloon up Ukraine as “the people” who you “stand” for.
Ukraine is not “the people”, their military has Nazis and they have oppressed “the people” of Donbas for 8 years. NATO has gaslighted Ukraine into its own destruction, and Russia has to protect itself from Aegis missile system. You are lying through teeth about “the people” here. Also thanks for calling me a “puppet of the Russian Empire” while being a tool of the NATO empire yourself.
There is nothing reasonable about putting NATO and Putin together, since NATO is a Nazism proponent, while Russia wants to do “denazification” of Ukraine. You are literally playing the Hitler card of calling Nationalist Fascism as National Socialism (Nat-Soc or Nazism). There is no “both sides” in being against Nazism for me, I am not an idiot who does not know what NatFashism did to the world during WW2. You may be an idiot like millions of others supporting Nazism unintentionally, but I will not do it.
Looks like you didn’t even read my post. Or if you did, you have some serious self-criticism to do.
You claim to be antifascist (or rather antinazi but maybe you make a difference here?!) yet you support russian fascism. You claim the ukrainian army is full of nazis (this is true) but carefully ignore that the russian army is also full of nazis. I don’t support (and on the contrary condone) NATO imperialism but you obviously can’t read that since in your narrow worldview someone who criticizes the russian empire necessarily has to vow allegiance to their sworn NATO enemies.
Contrary to you, i do not imply that opposing NATO means supporting Putin. On the contrary, i outlined on many occasions that anti-imperialist thinkers/fighters who oppose NATO are also opposing Putin’s imperialism on Ukraine.
Yes “the people” is one side you can choose. And by “the people” i certainly don’t mean Ukraine as a Nation-State or only the ukrainian people (which are not even a coherent ideological block as we pointed out in regards to separatism). I do mean the common people across all borders, who will be (and are already) the ones suffering every time there is war. War only profits the war industry and the fascist State apparatus, whether the invasion is conducted by NATO or by Russia.
Whoever starts the war/invasion, the peoples of both Ukraine and Russia will suffer heavy losses. You would know that if you were involved in actual anti-imperialist struggles and support to political refugees. The only war that’s ever justifiable is war against “your” nation state, for freedom and equality. Any war in the name of a State against another always plays against the interests of the people, or as the song goes (in french): “Because was is a massacre of people who don’t know one another, for the profit of people who always know each other yet do not massacre each other”.
Do not worry, NATO propaganda is falling apart so fast in real time, with the SWIFT sanctions in place, it is just a matter of time. Probably a few weeks or months till the revelation of Iraq war style propaganda is admitted, it has already begun.
If Putin is a madman colonialist bully to you, NATO has succeeded in brainwashing you. Caitlin is not detached from reality, you are. You are okay with NATO invading Russia and surrounding it with Aegis missile system, but Russia protecting Donbas citizens from Ukraine is madman dictator shit. To you, Zelensky, who has a 25% approval rate and jailed the democratically elected Poroshenko and banning opposition media, is not dictatorship, but Putin is a madman. You have been convinced by NATO and its controlled media.
Greenwald fell off long ago after the Snowden saga. When Ukraine was attacking and killing Donbas citizens for 8 years, where was this resistance and media hullabaloo? Or is it selective Cold War bias going on?
I’m not OK with either. But NATO did not invade Russia and AFAIK is not planning to. There is zero evidence to believe
I have no problems with that. But that’s not what’s happening: there is a full-scale invasion going on threatening the capital of Ukraine, where Putin’s demands go far beyond independence for Donbass.
What the hell are you talking about? I may be missing some details, but Poroshenko’s wikipedia page does not mention incarceration, but mentions losing in the elections to Zelensky. To quote the article:
I’m not saying Zelensky is much better, but you seem to be ardent to defend an actual bourgeois fascist whose slogan is “military, language, faith” and inventing conspiracies around him? I mean if you do have reliable sources contradicting this Wikipedia article, please help improve it.
Yes there’s selective cold war propaganda going on. And you’re fully subscribed to one side of it. I personally am very critical of both sides of the propaganda, and supportive of the civilians and internationalist socialists/communists/anarchists suffering due to political repression on both sides of the border. As much as you dismiss Greenwald, he’s doing a correct journalistic job on this topic: he’s presenting the lies from both sides and supporting the victims (the populations). You’re just a puppet of the Russian Empire. Which side are you on? Are you on the same side as Putin and NATO and other vampires playing the same game of geopolitics? Or are you on the side of the people who struggle against oppression and aim for self-organization at all levels of society?
NATO wants to eat communism for breakfast, Russia for lunch and China for dinner. What makes you think otherwise? Imperialist propaganda since Cold War has been pretty much about this.
Quoting should help here, because Putin’s recent speech tells otherwise.
Correction, not yet arrested, but the whole trope seems to be about just that. https://kyivindependent.com/national/explainer-is-poroshenko-treason-case-justice-or-political-persecution/
One side… that has 0% representation in current media for SOME reason.
Thanks, I got called one by few people, I am used to getting called “wumao” and “Chinese plant” too, so I guess I will take it as a badge of honour for standing for the truth.
Good question. You look to be on the side of Ukraine, that wants to prevent the oppressed people of DPR and LPR to have independence, and you support NATO by omission of argument as well. Your first question mixing Putin and NATO on the same side is a fallacy, and I will assume it is intentional, since you called me “Russian puppet”.
You are a fake leftist. I hope all of you supporting NATO lies learn a lesson of recognising propaganda and learn some morality soon. SWIFT sanctions in place means the struggle will not be too long now.
That’s definitely not true. You are the proof of this. While many national outlet are spewing NATO propaganda, others are spewing Kremlin propaganda. I’m hoping we can have more balanced information on lemmy.ml, that accounts for psyops on both sides of the conflict.
OK let’s dissect Putin’s speech together:
Geopolitical concerns between the two big empires (Russia and NATO), nothing about Ukrainian separatists. Though in this part of the speech, Putin presents separatism (in the Caucasus presumably) as morally wrong and dangerous.
Being slightly informed about Putin’s fight for cis-hetero-patriarchy, this appears to be anti-LGBT propaganda. Nothing to do with ukrainian separatists.
Once again this is about sovereign nations and their choice of military alliances (i.e. not Russia), nothing to do with ukrainian separatists. Special note that Putin explicitly appropriates Ukraine territory (“our historical land”) and in the same sentence acknowledges that his colonial stature fuels “anti-Russia” sentiment.
This is highly debatable. Russia is a major military power and has weapons capable of destroying half of Europe and Asia. In the “delicate balance of terror”, there is no indication that the balance has been broken (despite NATO expansionism, Putin still has one-click “life-or-death” button over much of the world) and Putin is not providing any evidence for Russia to be under risk of military attacks.
Saying “i won’t destroy you if you don’t become friends with my enemy” is not peaceful political means. It’s threats.
Putin talks about a genocide which beyond ordinary (and yes, unfair) State repression does not exist in Ukraine, and never provided any evidence for that. If anything, there is evidence that much of this spectacle was planned in advance (video metadata in official releases). And once again, Putin does not provide any evidence that Russia is in any way threatened.
There is exactly zero evidence for that that i could find. On the contrary, Ukraine used to be a major nuclear power in the times of the USSR and agreed to dismantle its entire arsenal in order to acquire relative peace with both Russia and NATO. This sounds a lot like the Bush administration’s “weapons of mass-destruction” narrative in Iraq back in the early 2000s.
As the military repression (some would say civil war) in muslim States (such as Checheny) and in Caucasus has shown, Russia has been treating separatists and ordinary citizens way worse than the Ukrainian has ever treated the people of Donetsk (at least from what we know publicly so far).
So they don’t plan to occupy the country, yet they are bombing the capital and intend to impose (“not by force” ?!) their laws and judicial systems, as well as fully demilitarize a sovereign nation. Is that not a textbook example of a colonialist invasion?
I’m on the side of the people, against Nation States and borders. I recognize the autonomy of local community and am ready to support people struggling for their independence. I’m not on the side of Ukraine and i’m not on the side of Russia, and i’m certainly not on the side of NATO as i’m anti-France, but i also have to be against Russia on this because they’re the ones who “fired” and keeps on shooting.
On the contrary, it’s the only reasonable analysis. Putin and NATO are two sides of the same dice of colonialist garbage. I stand with the people not with governments, as is a foundational principle of socialism (i strongly recommend some historical socialist/anarchist anti-war propaganda). Overall, i strongly recommend that you listen to the demands and cries of comrades on both sides of the border.
LOL. This is intentional grift. I do not even have a soapbox unlike NATO media which has hundreds of orchestras disseminating lies around the world at this very moment.
You are definitely dishonest, intentional or not. Your whole trope has been denialism of NATO’s involvement and threat against Russia since yesterday, and it is clear what arguments you are using. Everytime it is denialism to cancel out any of Russia’s concerns, while balloon up Ukraine as “the people” who you “stand” for.
Ukraine is not “the people”, their military has Nazis and they have oppressed “the people” of Donbas for 8 years. NATO has gaslighted Ukraine into its own destruction, and Russia has to protect itself from Aegis missile system. You are lying through teeth about “the people” here. Also thanks for calling me a “puppet of the Russian Empire” while being a tool of the NATO empire yourself.
There is nothing reasonable about putting NATO and Putin together, since NATO is a Nazism proponent, while Russia wants to do “denazification” of Ukraine. You are literally playing the Hitler card of calling Nationalist Fascism as National Socialism (Nat-Soc or Nazism). There is no “both sides” in being against Nazism for me, I am not an idiot who does not know what NatFashism did to the world during WW2. You may be an idiot like millions of others supporting Nazism unintentionally, but I will not do it.
Looks like you didn’t even read my post. Or if you did, you have some serious self-criticism to do.
You claim to be antifascist (or rather antinazi but maybe you make a difference here?!) yet you support russian fascism. You claim the ukrainian army is full of nazis (this is true) but carefully ignore that the russian army is also full of nazis. I don’t support (and on the contrary condone) NATO imperialism but you obviously can’t read that since in your narrow worldview someone who criticizes the russian empire necessarily has to vow allegiance to their sworn NATO enemies.
Contrary to you, i do not imply that opposing NATO means supporting Putin. On the contrary, i outlined on many occasions that anti-imperialist thinkers/fighters who oppose NATO are also opposing Putin’s imperialism on Ukraine.
Yes “the people” is one side you can choose. And by “the people” i certainly don’t mean Ukraine as a Nation-State or only the ukrainian people (which are not even a coherent ideological block as we pointed out in regards to separatism). I do mean the common people across all borders, who will be (and are already) the ones suffering every time there is war. War only profits the war industry and the fascist State apparatus, whether the invasion is conducted by NATO or by Russia.
Whoever starts the war/invasion, the peoples of both Ukraine and Russia will suffer heavy losses. You would know that if you were involved in actual anti-imperialist struggles and support to political refugees. The only war that’s ever justifiable is war against “your” nation state, for freedom and equality. Any war in the name of a State against another always plays against the interests of the people, or as the song goes (in french): “Because was is a massacre of people who don’t know one another, for the profit of people who always know each other yet do not massacre each other”.
Putin’s actions, not words, have convinced me. No one has invaded Russia. Russia has invaded Ukraine. You cannot talk fast enough to change the facts.
Do not worry, NATO propaganda is falling apart so fast in real time, with the SWIFT sanctions in place, it is just a matter of time. Probably a few weeks or months till the revelation of Iraq war style propaganda is admitted, it has already begun.
https://nitter.net/RealAlexRubi/status/1497747535783411714
The only thing falling apart is Russia’s economy. This is Putin’s swan song.