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Meanwhile On Grad

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I am genuinely confused by hexbear's opinion on the Ukraine war (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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What I have learned:

Russia has already won the Ukraine war
Which NATO started
A lot of people in the West think that Ukraine should surrender
Also Ukraine was the world's main provider of CSAM
Also Ukraine is exploited by the West but if they can unite with Russia then their economy and everything else will finally be alright

It's literally like a bizarro world and everyone is over there agreeing with it. I'm genuinely confused by, who even are these people (what is the mixture of Russian bots / Russian-aligned ordinary people / confused Westerners / some other explanation.)

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

Actually, the massacre wasn’t happening on Tiananmen Square, but next to it.

That one's true. There's probably been some deaths on the square itself but the bulk was in side-streets blocked by Peking locals in solidarity with the students, once the army fought itself through that and arrived at the square it issued an ultimatum and the students caved. Eleven of the withdrawing students were later killed away from the square by a stray tank crew. The tank man picture was taken the day after.

Don't get into fights with tankies over such things. Rather ask why the CCP was stomping Dengists -- which is what the students were.