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Fair enough,I did not know that

Still,I was thinking more about the FSB's failure than the military here

I addressed this,I don't condone terrorist attacks and I also acknowledge that this is a dangerous escalation

That being said,how can the Russians be so careless with a leg of their nuclear triad? Yes, Ukraine struck,but the fact that this type of attack even happened is indicative of something very rotten happening in Russia,that is my point

Yeah,that I think is irresponsible

Overall I still think he does more good than harm,but he's way into "anti war-ism" on the Ukraine issue

Well,fair enough,but it was cooking in my mind for a while

Also,I don't know if he said anything about the bridge attacks,all I recall was the military bases being attacked being commented on

Sorry,used to just spacing once instead of twice

Will revise

Look,I'm not being combative, but it's alright,you don't wanna read it,fine

However,when did I say the Kerch attack was justified? Did I say I'm a crypto banderite? I realize I'm talking to someone called Zposter here,but some charity would be warranted. The attack on the military bases is both on Ukraine for attacking and on Russia for not preventing it,that's my point.

I think it's a little unfair how even the slightest criticism of Russia is enough to brand someone as a pro Ukr,pro NATO chauvinist.

The reason I'm so up in arms is because eastern Europeans get so much unwarranted shit here and it's been bothering me. Most of it is completely warranted,mind you,I find myself astounded at the servility of our compradors to the west and the depravity of our Russophobia.

What I don't appreciate is us being sandpapered over because of the historical and modern day pro west lackeys that held power in our area of the world and how we have to treat Russia like it's still the Soviet Union if we don't want to be branded as "pro NATO".

This area ping ponged between Russia and the west for two centuries now and even in the best of times, during the Soviet years,there was still a soft undercurrent of subordination to them.

So now we have to be completely uncritical of what they do because they saved us from fascism,even when the state that actually did that now decayed into a oligarchic semi dictatorship that stumbled ass backwards into being on the good side of history because the west got too greedy and didn't wanna share and because of the Soviet heritage. It's just a bit insulting to be treated as a punchline, "the reddit belt", when voicing even the slightest negative opinion towards them.

I will never criticize the heroic efforts of the Soviet Union nor the measures it sought to implement in the liberated nations.

However,I hold no such reverence for the RF,no matter of how beneficial they are to the global south,they have a vision for this corner of the world that is fundamentally incompatible to what it would look like if it was truly liberated and I believe that is not a chauvinistic thing to believe at all.

While I vehemently disagree with the soft pro Ukraine takes he has,I won't shed tears over them losing some bombers.

Yes,it was a reckless escalation and a dangerous development,but I can also say fuck the Russians for being so corrupt and arrogant that they thought they wouldn't get this type of response from a state which is the manifestation of the hatred the west has for Russia,a weapon with which to dismember and damage it.

You can't tell me the onus is only on the west for striking and not on the crass incompetence for even making this possible on the Russian side.

I'm going to make this into a semi call-out post,so I do apologize for my combative tone,but I did ruminate this over some time, reading your takes on Russia.

First,I will never tarnish the valuable contributions of Russia to the fight against the West in the global south. Their support for the DPRK,Cuba and Traore is commendable in it of itself. Helping Syria and making it into an anti Israel bulwark was also an unequivocally good decision and I won't ever criticize their position of helping those who want to fight the west all over the globe.

Now,that being said,where my opinion differs from yours is what they do in their backyard. I am fully prepared to get shit on for being the average ungrateful post communist state dweller east European for some of these takes,but so be it. One,they are undoubtedly still a capitalist state.

Now,this absolutely doesn't mean they should be fractured, demilitarized or weakened,but at the end of the day,I will always keep them at arm's length until something changes radically in their political structure.

Two,they, no matter how much I understand and agree with their position,they are still a direct threat to me and to my livelihood. I can agree with their position and I certainly won't cry any tears if they strike a NATO base,but they still are indirectly a very real danger to me.

This isn't some fever dream of a liberal living in the west,I live right on the border with Ukraine and I saw Russian drone strikes from my house. If this gets ugly,me and my family are the first in the line of fire.

Of course,this would only happen because of NATO jumping the gun,but while my logical mind can tell me who is really responsible,I,like any normal person would have a hard time completely avoiding thinking anything negative of the people bombing you,no matter how much you know they're in the right.

This point is weaker,mainly boiling down to me being scared of them if NATO goes haywire,but it's my perspective as someone who's as close to this disaster as one can be without having their lives in danger.

Third,they did something I can never forgive this election cycle and backed the fascist candidate. Before you tear my throat for being a Russia gate style eurolib, I'm not talking about election interference,but something they said about the fascist candidate. They had the audacity to say he is like Traore and that he would free the country like he did.

Keep in mind this is a neo legionary crook football hooligan piece of shit who makes liberal use of slurs and even threatened a member of the Senate with SA.

The sheer cynicism of that move lays bare to me the fact that they dgaf about the consequences of what they do and that the good they do is just remnants of the Soviet past and favorable conjuncture.

And yes,this was reported on by the native pro western news,but even I can tell that shit was astroturfed from one direction, because no Romanian knows who TF is Traore and what he did. That is not to mention their opposition to the cancelled elections last year. Yes it was a filthy PSD power grab so that they could try to re rig the election into having their candidate get into the second round,but it also kept Georgescu,a rabid lunatic who sieg heils with the best of them and has eulogized the "national hero" Antonescu.

Idgaf if he's the only anti west guy, voicing your support for this human filth shows that you don't give a fuck about denazification when the Nazis say they want to follow "Russian wisdom".

I will never disparage the conduct of the USSR towards Romania,with the small caveat that the Moldovan SSR should've kept the Bugeac,but the shit the RF is attempting to pull here now is quite frankly appalling and makes me seriously doubt their commitment to to liberation and instead makes me think they only want to split the world like a cake and put the worst kind of fascist adjacent buffoons in their slice so that they can control them like puppets.

Do I think they will invade us?No.

Do I think they should win in Ukraine?Yes

Do I think they should be a counterweight to NATO? Absolutely

That all being said,I can't see them as anything more than a useful enemy of the west,with a cynical foreign policy for my slice of the world.

I do not care if it seems like I'm trying to say they are at fault for this (I do not) and that they are the quiet supporters of neo legionaries in my country (they are),I can't get over some of the more blatant running of defence for Russia even when they fuck up spectacularly and let shit like this happen. It's nice that they hold up a lot of the big opposition to the west in the global south,but them giving their soft backing to the neo legionary candidate is a bit too much for me. It's clear they have a vision for eastern Europe and I don't know if I'm in complete agreement with it.

Keep in mind this is the sdf defender speaking,but I do agree long term at least Russia isn't an ally

Hexbearian standard English

God damn the English language is an endless etymological treasure trove of racism