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So many leftists will go “Well yeah obviously Russia isn’t as evil as the U.S. or Israel, but the invasion of Ukraine was still wrong!” But if you ask them follow-up questions about how the war started, the genocide of Russians in the Donbas before Russia’s invasion, and whether Hamas’s allies (Iran, Hezbollah, Yemen) were justified in attacking Israel in defense of Gaza, they run out of answers very quickly.
The parallels between these two conflicts are very clear. Israel and Ukraine are fascist, racial supremacist states funded by the west that love doing genocide. Gaza and the Donbas are their victims. Russia and Iran are the regional powers that reluctantly got involved, not necessarily to stop the genocide but because they were pushed into a corner, but are nevertheless on the right side of the fight.
History didn’t start on October 7 2023, and it didn’t start on February 24 2022 either. Russia didn’t start the war, Russia joined the ongoing war in Ukraine on the side of Ukraine’s victims. Most of their reasoning for doing so was selfish, sure, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t the correct thing to do.
My rule of thumb is that if it's an organized group clearly and explicitly opposed to America then it is a force of good, stability, and peace in the world. I imagine there are exceptions but as a rule of thumb I'm likely to be right.
Do I know anything about Russia? Just that the average USSR citizen had as many calories as the US and I watched the movie about doping in the Olympics. Was I saying that I hope for a quick and lasting peace for the people of the Donbas region the nanosecond I heard they were being bullied? You bet your sweet ass I did.
Russia today doesn't strike me as... le good! and I'm open to learning more.
The only ones I can think of all trace their origins back to US intelligence anyway, ISIS, Al Qaeda, etc.