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This is utter bullshit.
As I explained here, the food aid is a tool of imperialism. It's a tool to keep the global south linked to the US Empire and remain underdeveloped, resulting in unequal exchange.
As for Ukraine, you're entirely wrong. In 2014, the west backed the far-right Euromaidan coup because the democratically elected president, Yanukovych, picked a Russian loan over one from the IMF that required austerity measures. The Stepan Bandera-upholding neo-Nazis orchestrated the Maidan Massacre, and began ethnically cleansing the Donbass region. 13,000 civilians were murdered by the Kiev regime over the course of a decade in the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and it was only when Kiev had ammassed a gigantic invasion force that Russia intervened to protect the DPR and LPR per their requests for aid.
Here are even some western government sanctioned sources.
Groups like Azov have been folded in officially. The Kiev regime upholds Stepan Bandera and uses likeness for propaganda. Nazis infest Ukrainian leadership:
The east supported Yanukovych, and that's why the far-right Banderites couping him kicked off the war.
What part of this is "BS propaganda?" Who has "picked it apart?" You gave no sources, I gave plenty. Do you think, say, BBC was lying about its ally having a Nazi problem?
You've been caping for the US Empire and trying to pretend it used USAID in a manner that benefits the global south, and now are trying to deny mountains of evidence of Kiev's Nazi problems.
You dump irrelevant links and make non-sequitir arguments. When challenged, you dump more links and make more non-sequitir arguments. It seems to be your MO, and it (along with the huge number of comments) makes me suspicious of your motives.
Your comment history is open to all.
(edit: OP edited his post to remove a copy & paste link dump)
I don't dump irrelevant links nor do I make non-sequitor arguments. My comment history is open to all, and I quite clearly state that I'm a communist that organizes in real life and wishes to create more communists. What are you suspicious of, that I'm not a communist?
Nothing wrong with being a communist. Not my suspicion.
Then what is? Your comment history is also open to all, and it seems you spend a good deal of time complaining about communists and Lemmy.ml.
Mostly just people who believe that the path to a better world is aligned with whitewashing russia's acts of aggression.
There's plenty of good causes in this world, and plenty of ways to support them. Supporting a genocidal war by russia just because they are not the US's doesn't move the needle.
I'm not whitewashing Russia's actions, I'm explaining why the war happened. You, in the face of overwhelming evidence of the ethnic cleansing campaign initiated by the Banderites in Kiev, called it "BS propaganda" despite all being from western sources. Russia is not genocidal, and they are not the more progressive side in the war simply because they aren't the US, but because they are stopping an ethnic cleansing campaign and undermining imperialism.
Someone else recently said it better, but here I go: Russia brought war and death and genocide to Ukraine starting in 2014, when there was generally peaceful civilian life and normal political discourse beforehand.
Ukranians quite consistently voted for EU integration and moving away from russia's sphere of influence... they wanted it, and they did not want russia. No guns necessary, just an increasingly well educated and inspired population. Russia sent guns instead.
Incorrect. The west brought war, death, and genocide to Ukraine by couping the democratically elected Yanukovych and placing far-right Banderites in power, who slaughtered civilians in the Maidan Massacre, then murdered 13,000+ civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk for breaking away from the new Neo-Nazi regime. The only genocide in Ukraine is the one committed against ethnic Russians by the Kiev regime.
Yanukovych went for the Russian loan because it didn't require austerity measures that the IMF loan did. Ukraine is one of the poorest countries in Europe and has been utterly looted by the west. Education has nothing to do with it, it's the west plundering Ukraine and couping democratically elected presidents.
He went against what the people wanted, and the platform upon which he was elected, and protests ensued. Killings, more protests, lost political and police support, and he ran away with his tail between his legs to mama russia. He abandoned office, and lost his position for it. New elections, new chance. Except for russia. Yawn.
This is largely the mythology built around the event. The actual decision to go with the Russian loan was absolutely better, as Ukraine is now even more immiserated than before (even pre-2022). This also doesn't justify letting neo-Nazis run Ukraine and ethnically cleanse Donetsk and Luhansk, who both voted democratically to join Russia.
You are falling back to that lie? In short: Yes, ukraine had and surely still has some neonazis, but the far right parties barely make a dent. So no, they are not the government. You are starting to go around in circles. Perhaps you should take a seat.
DPR and LHR are the result of the first russian invasion, and no fair elections were possible. They were in violation of the minsk agreements, had ad-hoc voter lists, the election bodies were created by armed groups, and there was no judiciary or electoral oversight. In short: they were illegitimate and the result was almost certainly predetermined.
There's no lie, I already provided a mountain of evidence proving that Banderites run Ukraine. Unless, of course, the BBC is "Russian propaganda." DPR and LPR are a result of the neo-Nazis taking over Kiev, and couping Yanukovych, who DPR and LPR supported (as shown by the electoral map I provided earlier). Kiev broke the Minsk agreements as well. The elections are legitimate, you're inserting your fanfiction to continue justifying to yourself that supporting Nazis is okay for you to do.
This is impressive energy for a position that still hasn’t crossed the non-sequitur gap. 🤣
There's been no non-sequitors here, you've just failed to prove any of your assertions or disprove mine.