- cross-posted to:
- Ukraine@europe.pub
- cross-posted to:
- Ukraine@europe.pub
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/1289229
Rule #1. Russia’s traditionalism makes it surprisingly predictable. If Russia surprises you, then you don’t know Russia.
Rule #2. If Russia promises to do something good, it will never do it. Consequence: a treaty with Russia is not worth the paper it is signed on.
Rule #3. If Russia promises not to do something bad, it will definitely do it. Consequence: Russia will do it the moment you decide it will not do it.
Rule #4. If Russia promises to do something bad, it will definitely do it. Consequence: Russia will do it at the most inopportune moment for itself.
Rule #5. If Russia accuses someone of meanness or a crime, then it has already committed it.
Rule #6. If Russia claims that someone is preparing meanness or a crime, then it is preparing them.
Rule #7. If Russia makes an official statement, it is a lie.
Rule #8. Russia does not understand the language of force, it understands only force. The consequence: ultimatums and negotiations with Russia are useless, because it perceives them as a sign of weakness.
Rule #9. If you are afraid of “provoking Russia to escalate”, then you are mistaken. Escalation has been planned by Russia for a long time and does not need an additional reason, pretext or provocation.
Rule #10. If you are still afraid of Russia, then you are doing it in vain. You simply do not know Russia.
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No, russia will not use nuclear bomb. if you ask about it. Russians are huge cowards) they are even afraid of Ukrainian women)
I think they easily could use a nuclear bomb and kill millions of people in Europe, but whatever bot farm cooked up this fine post (if I’m being charitable) is probably operated by people who couldn’t care less.
This is already tradition - the Russians scare us with nuclear bomb at least once every six months) You can hardly scare us with this) Stalin, when Hitler was marching on Moscow, banally put on his underwear and hid in the mountains… and only when the Ukrainians repelled the attack at Stalingrad - did he begin to lead the army.
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Yeah they do realize that, and they are (correctly AFAIK) identifying that Ukrainians made a huge contribution to that. Of the 27 million Soviets who died in WWII, about 7 million were Ukrainian. That definitely deserves to be remembered and we owe them just as much for the defeat of fascism. That being said, it’s absolutely deranged to act like it wasn’t a huge number of Russians, both soldiers and civilians, who died in Stalingrad (even if Ukrainians were brought in to help).
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Check with maps where Ukrainian people live. Do you know that even on OCCUPIED TERRITORIES russians force Ukrainians to fight against Ukrainians?
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Maybe the Russians don’t like the Azov fighters so much because they did the impossible - just a handful of people held back the swarm offensive for a long time and diverted forces from Kiev. Thus, they failed to capture Kiev. They sacrificed their lives but saved Ukraine from surrender
Thank you for the question. Look, all the territories that the Russians are occupying - all the men, even teenagers, are being forced to fight against our guys from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. These are teenagers who are not even 16 years old. Ukrainians speak both Ukrainian and Russian - in the east, south and even in the center, they mostly spoke Russian, especially in large cities. But with the Russian attack, Ukrainians gradually began to switch to Ukrainian.
I don’t really understand the question about “Russian-speaking Ukrainians who hate Azov”. There are none. We believe that all the fighters who defend Ukraine from Russian invaders demand respect. We do not kneel before the Russians, we kneel before the Ukrainian fighters who gave their lives so that Ukrainian children would stay alive. The Azov fighters, just like the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, defend Ukraine from Moscow’s tyranny. Kharkiv is Russian-speaking, practically located on the border with Russia - but the Russians could not capture Kharkiv, people came out with their bare hands to defend it.
What were the losses in the war of the Ukrainians and Belarusians, and what were the losses in the war of the Russians? Have you researched this?
Secondly, look up maps and you will see that the territories where the Ukrainian population lives reach all the way to the Volga and also include the Kuban. The Ukrainians captured all the key cities during World War II, but the Russians attributed these victories to themselves. There are a lot of testimonies and memoirs about this. Therefore, Russia is nothing more than a bunch of rats who are incapable of anything except scaring with a nuclear bomb
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Absolutely russia is bunth of rats. Why you should bother?> alright cool, but do you genuinely think your national might is going to do anything about a thermonuclear bomb? like, maybe it’s time to drop the act and just be an adult?
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This is literally the same thing Hitler would’ve said. I don’t care if you think your descendants are Hyperboreans, Aryans, or whatever other racial or nationalistic narrative you were taught at the horse penis sucking school, we’re all just humans and whatever genetic and cultural differences exist between “races” are absolutely nothing next to the potential we have to transform ourselves if we drop these fascist wives’ tales. In a better world, instead of spewing this racial hatred online you would be researching medicine or agricultural technology in a Soviet lab and going home to a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural family. That’s the world your fascist (and yes, it is fascist) nationalist narratives have robbed us of.
My sibling in Christ, when a statesman suggested using the Russian colors for the RSFSR it was rejected because of Russian nationalism and the dude got purged and Lenin wrote extensively against Russian nationalist ideology.
I don’t think Putin really cares much for the equality of nations in this day and age, he’s a cynical leader who really only cares to maintain the interests of Russian oligarchs and to keep the Russian Federation stable. So I don’t want to completely invalidate your worries. But you have a completely deranged idea of how Russia works and what drives them; they are the same as any other nation, they will watch out for their interests and will follow course from where material conditions push them. They are not rats, cowards, heroes, saviors, or anything else, they’re just people.
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Look, maybe you just shouldn’t let your nationalist narratives about how stinky or how awesome each country is goad you into a false sense of security and superiority? Russia has an enormous nuclear arsenal. If NATO keeps poking the bear they obviously will reach a point where they’ll use those weapons, it’s not rocket science.
It makes me laugh that the Russians are not capable of anything else except scaring us with their nuclear weapon. They have not even managed to take any of the cities with a population of millions in 3 years.
“Great Russia” is worth nothing without Ukraine! They have not won a single war without us. Let’s look at history. The Crimean War was won only thanks to Ukrainians, the revolution was won only because Ukrainians destroyed the White Army, World War II was won only because of Ukrainians (battle under Stalingrad). ‘Russians power’ is illusion and we prove it every single day
alright cool, but do you genuinely think your national might is going to do anything about a thermonuclear bomb? like, maybe it’s time to drop the act and just be an adult?
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Tankies advocating for the Kremlin for about the billionth time… hm…
Maybe Hexbear was established by the Kremlin and all its posters are paid by the Kremlin. I wouldn’t be surprised. Otherwise, Hexbear is just doing that work for free.
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Like gulags?
Probably all countries have some far-right elements. Ukraine has some far-right people, Russia has some far-right people. But I think the main strand of nationalism in Ukraine at the moment is probably not “fascist”. I think they just want independence and sovereignty.
Ukraine and Russia are both pretty white I think, so if I was trying to pick the “white” side, then there would be no reason to support Ukraine over Russia, or Russia over Ukraine.
Can you point me to a country anywhere in history that could get through a world war, a revolution, a civil war, then another world war, all in the span of 30 years, all without ever putting people in prison? Also, any time people say something positive about the USA, do you pipe in and ask them how they feel about mass incarceration in the US, which has a far higher incarceration rate than the USSR did even in the worst parts of the purges? Or would that be whataboutism?
Quantity has a quality all of its own.
If all they wanted was independence and sovereignty, why do they keep putting black suns on their uniforms as they fire pork grease laced bullets at Chechen Muslim soldiers?
I’m glad you think that way, but whiteness is not about the color of their skin. Italians, the Irish, and the Spanish didn’t use to be considered white. Even Germans have been considered not white in the 19th century. The only group of people that is consistently considered white are the WASPs. Whiteness is a very fluid thing and the bounds of whiteness are really just defined by hegemonic narratives. The current hegemonic narrative in the West is that there’s a clash of civilizations, the West and the East, where the West is white-coded and the East is the Other.
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It’s just strange that I keep seeing people from Hexbear leaping to the defence of Russia and China, and indeed repeating their propaganda points. E.g. the idea that Ukraine is a Nazi country. There are some far-right people in Ukraine for sure, just like there are in Russia, and in Germany, and in the USA, etc. But I don’t think it’s accurate to call Ukraine a Nazi country. I don’t think their Jewish president plans to exterminate Jews, or expand the territory of Ukraine through conquest.