Here's how Ukraine was being reported by the West before the war.

Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West’s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.

These stories of Ukraine’s dark nationalism aren’t coming out of Moscow; they’re being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity.

Five years after Maidan, the beacon of democracy is looking more like a torchlight march. A neo-Nazi battalion in the heart of Europe

If you whitewash NAZI POGROMS just because you want to beat Russia, fuck you. Siding with far-right fascists to defeat far-right fascists doesn't make you the good guy. There is no lesser of two evils here.

If you dismiss any criticism of Ukraine as Russian propaganda, you might want to ask why the rest of the world, including the West, was concerned about Nazism in the area and then suddenly changed their tune only after the war started.

We should be getting both sides into peace negotiations, not prolonging the bloodshed and providing Nazis with illegal cluster bombs

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[–] 126 points 3 years ago (90 children)

The US funding and arming far right militias as a means of attacking a geopolitical rival has historically always been a good idea and resulted in very few consequences

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  • [–] 60 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    btw you can bet your ass I've downloaded these all with yt-dlp in case they ever get memory-holed. honestly a miracle they're all still up lol

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    [–] 90 points 3 years ago

    somebody should tell all these LIBs

    • their principled opposition to the Iraq war in 2003-20?? was actually Baathist propaganda sweetie
    • they were all just bots shilling for Saddam Hussein
    • and also how dare they stand against the freedom loving and liberation focused Coalition of The Willing which is there to STOP torture and extrajudicial executions
    • there will be no consequences for backing violent extremists in the region because their thirst for the blood of our geopolitical rivals is well under control and easily manipulated
    • what's ISIS? you mean the thing from TV's Archer?

    mission-accomplished-1 mission-accomplished-2

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  • [–] 90 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This is RUZZIA style PUTLER propaganda sweetie maybe-later-honey

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  • [–] 77 points 3 years ago

    I love how liberals view the war in a vacuum, like Ukraine hasn't been carrying out pogroms on ethnic Russians (and other minorities) since Euromaidan kicked off and gave absolute literal neo-nazis power and backing from the west. No it's just Russia are the real nazis, Ukraine is an innocent child baby country, war crime yada yada

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    [–] 67 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    See my profile, I’ve been arguing with a bad person about this for days. “But Russia is also bad, therefore I must pretend to be above the fray, even though all of my words and actions and thoughts support amerikkka!”

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    [–] 65 points 3 years ago

    Attention. Class is now in session. Professor Dirt Owl presiding owl-wink

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  • [–] 65 points 3 years ago

    stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

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