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2026-08-01 06:47 UTC

Wasnt it Russia that agreed to respect Ukrainian borders and sovereignty(1994 Budapest memorandum)? While there are grains of truth in your argument you are trying to paint Russia as a defender of its people which it really isnt. For instance relatevely recently in order for big business to gain more control and eventually monopolize cattle farming their andministration started a killing cattle of farmers in rural regions were it was their main economic activity painting it as a measure to combat a disease(yeah sure a disease that spread from Kalmykia to Tuva with gaps in between) btw the cattle was killed in an extremely cruel way people report that animals were burned alive in front of their owners again it was the main means for paying the bills for them. That said i agree that i didnt think about western intervention well enough and was wrong. Still my point about fighting imperialism not justifying imperialism holds.

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@mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 2026-08-01 09:10

While there are grains of truth in your argument you are trying to paint Russia as a defender of its people which it really isnt. Unnecessary and rude. You said that you “cant see what west has to do with this conflict aside from providing aid to Ukraine”, well there you go. Now you see. This wasn’t even my comment, I just copy-pasted it because it looked like you wanted more info on this. If you have some facts to add please do. I don’t understand how your thing about russia killing cattle relates to this. You say that they are “painting it as a measure to combat disease” suggesting you disagree with it but offer no alternative explanation. To me that just looks like you’re trying to paint russia as something by throwing out stuff unrelated to the discussion with some vague handwaving about why the official story is not believable.

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