Every accusation is a confession.
Loud words that sound eloquent and profound, but in actuality carry no value. A demagogy in other words.
Russians doing safaris? WTF?
Here's a video of just the most recent case that i remember (facebook)
In my own city they bombed a theater and a trade center/office building.
Here's also an online presentation from Human Rights Watch with some videos
Democracy is derived from the individual only, not race, not religion, not ethnicity, not arbitrary borders, and not even nations themselves.
True. Nobody here talks about religion or nationality tho. I wouldn't have batted my eye as Russia captured Ukraine if Russia was a democratic and functioning country. Except it isn't. How'd I know? Simple, really. I have friends and family in Russia. Little fun fact, when Ukranian drone strikes happen in Russia, there's no sirens, no beforehand notification, no shelters. That's just how dysfunctional the Russian government is. Those things were implemented immediately in my country when Russia invaded. That's the difference. Russian government is an oppressive regime that treats its people as a disposable resource.
Individuals have a right to exist, not nations.
I might surprise you, but I'm not the biggest fan of nations either. Problem is, Russia, specifically its current government is nationalist, and was such for a much longer time than Ukraine was. Ukraine's nationalism is the reaction towards Russia's.
Millions of people stopped being “Ukrainian” the moment their democratically elected government was overthrown by a Svoboda led fascist mob.
Excuzes-moi, le fuck? After Maidan, there were elections held, Twice since then. Both the current president of Ukraine, and the Ukrainian parliament were democratically elected. And recently when Trump accused Zelensky of military dictatorship, Zelensky himself proposed for the elections to be held, if Russia will guarantee ceasefire for their duration.
Your grandchildren’s grandchildren will be paying off generational debt from predatory military and IMF loans
There'd be no children and grandchildren if not for those loans. Also, My country's military production have advanced and scaled so much since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, that i'm not sure there'd be trouble paying them off honestly.
Annexation would make that disappear overnight.
Except it won't. Peskov said:
Any peace plans to end the Russo-Ukrainian War can only proceed from Ukraine's recognition of Russia's annexation of occupied regions.
In other words, he says "admit LDNR is ours, and only then we might start to talk about peace". Except Russian ambition was to take whole territory of the Ukraine. When the invasion started, the tagline in the Russian news was "Киев за три дня" ("Kyiv in three days"). The actual military plan was for blitzkrieging Kyiv in 11 days.