When Moscow isn't silent about its attacks on our civilians - it gets even worse, just remember how they claimed that children's clinic "Okhmatdyt" was a military hospital.
Not to mention how some Telegram z-bloggers sometimes say quiet part out loud and cheer for Ukrainian kids getting killed because "they'll grow to be nationalists anyway".
That's a really bad take.
Yes, people on previously Soviet-occupied territories that were occupied by Germans in WW2 often first met nazis with flowers as liberators, and even captured Soviet generals would at first slip some words that were quite critical of Soviet leadership.
But, as time passed on, the attitudes changed, so there was increase in guerilla activity and also some initial collaborators became rebels. That is simply because people started realizing how nazis were worse than anything.
I'll say most Ukrainians wish both sides "best of luck" (source: I'm Ukrainian) - to Israel because they supplied Lancet and Orlan technologies to Russia, to Iran because they supplied Shaheds and ballistic missiles to Russia, so these things are what directly impacted our lives and made them much worse.
As for why Zelensky sings praises for Taco Don from time to time - I don't believe that latter one can be swayed to help Ukraine (and Zelensky probably doesn't believe that too) but there's still Congress, that is somewhat cooperative from time to time, and we really need these sanctions that Taco Don now tries to delay and dilute.
Tankies are folks who follow ideologies such as stalinism or stalinist-adjacent ones (e.g. trotskyism, maoism).
Here "libshits" takes most of the scale, because I've been called that a bunch of times, despite certainly not being a liberal or even in the center or right wing, and I'm kinda salty.
Farmers in New Zealand are organized into cooperative, probably the biggest and most successful cooperative there is, and there's almost zero subsidizing from state for them.
That's what he says.
Ukrainian special services, on the other hand, point out servers and most Telegram employees residing in St. Petersburg and claim that he made few dozen visits to Russia since his alleged flight from there.
I'd add up a bit. The idea expressed there is also basically dismissing Ukrainian subjectivity, and that is exactly what Russians do all the time.
Their ideology locked them in such a position where either Russia exists or free independent Ukraine exists, because they treat Ukraine as "Russia's missing piece".
This is why I naively believe that if any ceasefire actually happens (even if slightly unfavorable for Ukraine) - Russia will simply subsequently self-destruct.
That may be hypocritical, but having hostile neighbour, that itself doesn't respect any conventions (and Russians absolutely don't mind anti-personnel landmines among other things such as cluster munitions and chemical warfare) is a good stimuli to rethink ones principles.
I think the initial motive for her appointment may have been to later eat her face. Turncoat who doesn't mind taking money from Russia, Iran, even Assad. Of course she'd say Iran wasn't building a nuke (peaceful 60% enriched uranium, y'know).
They specifically placed the most useless person as head of intelligence to paralyze entire agency and then dismiss it.
Good thing Lemmy is safe since .ml folks agree with MAGA on lots of things. 🌝
Eh, I wouldn't put Gabbard and truth in one sentence though. Girl has been taking money from Assad at some point, which is like the lowest low.
I believe that Iran deserves better. I know few Iranians and they are actually cool people, who just happened to live under the yoke of folks who believe that earthquakes happen because women wear jeans.
But as much as I'd love to see Iran change for the better, I absolutely wouldn't trust US and Israel to make that change - they'll just dismantle the state and leave it in ruins Iraq-style.