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  • Chechnya is a part of Russia. A country cannot invade itself. It was jihadi terrorists, armed and trained by the CIA, who invaded Russia.

    Georgia was the one who attacked first in 2008. Even the EU investigation into that conflict had to admit this undeniable fact.

    Russia did not invade Crimea. Russia was already in Crimea because they were leasing a naval base there. Crimeans held a referendum to join Russia and Russia accepted them.

    The Donbass rebelled against the illegal fascist coup in 2014 and was attacked for this by the Nazi thugs of the coup regime.

    Russia responded to a request for mutual defense from the Donbass republics in 2022 which had declared independence from Ukraine due to being attacked by the illegally installed Kiev regime for eight years.

    This is their legal right under international law according to the UN charter article 51.

    Tibet is part of China and has been since at least the Yuan dynasty (13th century).

    The Uyghurs are a protected ethnic group in China. You can visit Xinjiang which is autonomously governed mostly by local Uyghurs and see for yourself they live just as normally as any other people in China.

    The South China Sea is split between all nations bordering it. China’s claims to its share are legal and historically justified.

    When other countries’ fishing boats intrude into Chinese waters without China’s permission, China enforces its sovereignty. The other countries do the same to Chinese fishing boats in their respective waters. The US meanwhile blows up fishing boats in other countries’ waters, which is a war crime.

    China and Russia both have democratic processes just like the US does. Russia even has presidential elections. They are not dictatorships any more than the US is. Russia’s constitution is practically a carbon copy of the French constitution and was written with heavy involvement of US “advisors” (USAID).

    The US is the one that repeatedly, blatantly and unrepentantly violates international law:

    The unprovoked bombing of Serbia and the illegal NATO occupation of Serbia’s Kosovo province, the illegal invasion of Iraq, the invasion of Afghanistan, the bombing of Libya, the invasion of Syria, the aiding and abetting of the genocide in Palestine, the unprovoked bombing of Iran, serial theft of other countries’ legal property, illegal unilateral sanctions, and a litany of war crimes against civilians… the list is practically endless.


  • Plenty of countries have held elections during wartime. The “constitution” is just a piece of paper. If they wanted to hold elections they could, nothing is physically tying their hands. If they wanted to they could also just change the constitution, the same way they just changed it when they wrote into the constitution that they would join NATO. If they wanted to they could just lift martial law, the same way they just imposed it. They won’t because they’re a fascist dictatorship maintaining power through imposing a repressive military regime on their own citizens. And they don’t want to hold elections because the Nazi junta currently in charge would lose them or have to rig them so blatantly that the country would revolt.



  • The purest example of fake news. Putin invited journalists to see the surrounded Ukrainian garrison in Myrnograd-Pokrovsk (that pocket has now been all but eliminated, so it’s too late for that). This article tries to claim he said it about Kupyansk, a town in a completely different part of Ukraine, which is very easy to verify is not true.

    It’s sort of insulting that the people who churn out this lazy pro-Ukrainian propaganda think their audience is this stupid that they won’t even check.

    As for the Narcoführer, he just went to do another of his usual photoshoots with the town sign, which in this case happens to be several kilometers outside of the actual city itself.

    Coincidentally it just so happens that almost every time he does one of these PR stunts that city ends up falling not long after.

    I have no idea if this is going to be the case here. Who knows, maybe Ukraine will break the pattern this time and retake the city. Congratulations to them if they do, they haven’t had a win in a long time now so i’m sure it would be a nice morale booster, but unfortunately it doesn’t change the broader trend which is very much not in their favor.


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    First and Second Chechen Wars

    Purely defensive, internal conflicts on internationally recognized Russian territory against CIA backed jihadist terrorists who butchered civilians and committed heinous acts of terrorism such as taking an entire school hostage and murdering hundreds of children.

    Puppet Leader in Belarus Alexander Lukashenko

    Lukashenko has been the leader of Belarus longer than Putin has been president. Belarus is in a Union State with Russia, and still has more autonomy from Russia than the average EU state has from Brussels.

    Puppet leader in Ukraine Victor Yanukovych

    He was the furthest thing from a puppet. If anything he was Western-leaning, but trying to keep Ukraine neutral. His one unforgivable crime in the eyes of the West was rejecting a terrible EU trade deal that would have ruined Ukraine’s economy (and did) in favor of an objectively much better one from Russia.

    Georgian War

    Literally even the EU investigation into that conflict admitted that Georgia started it. Emboldened by believing they had NATO backing, the US puppet president, installed in a color revolution, attacked the region of South Ossetia which was under the protection of Russian peacekeepers.

    Annexation of Crimea

    The people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted in a referendum to rejoin Russia in response to the fascist, Western-orchestrated Maidan coup.

    The majority ethnic Russian population of Crimea did not want the same brutal neo-nazi terror militias that were terrorizing ethnic Russian regions across the rest of Ukraine to come to them, nor did they want to be forced to abide by the russophobic laws passed by the illegally installed Maidan regime, which Crimea, like the Donbass, did not recognize as legitimate.

    Russia’s actions in Crimea were a response to a crisis provoked by Western intervention and the overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected government.

    Role in Syria conflict

    Russia co-operated with the legitimate Syrian government against a brutal Zionist/US armed and funded Al Qaeda/ISIS terrorist insurgency.

    Role in African dictatorships in Burma Faso and Niger

    Same thing. They are co-operating with the official government of those countries in counter-terrorist operations against Western backed jihadist terrorists.

    None of this constitutes imperialism. In fact almost all of these are examples of Russia pushing back against Western imperialist aggression, encroachment and proxies.



  • Unfortunately, right now the far-right threat is too big for me not to hold my nose and vote strategically.

    This mentality is exactly why Germany is failing, it’s why “liberal democracies” all around the world are failing. Voting for liberals who have proven to be failures and will continue to be failures, purely out of fear of what will happen if you don’t, means that the conditions which led to the rise of the far right will continue to worsen, which sets up the far right for an even bigger win down the line. Just like “vote for the Democrats to stop Trump” was a failed strategy in the US, “vote for SPD/CDU to stop AfD” is a failed strategy in Germany.

    And worst of all, while you’ve been conditioned by the media to be so afraid of one fascist party coming to power, you’ve failed to notice that fascists are already in charge.

    While you’ve been conditioned to be so afraid of “losing your democracy” you’ve failed to notice that you’re already living under repression, censorship, state surveillance, a violent police state that defends Nazis and imprisons you for protesting a genocide, with regime-aligned media brainwashing you 24/7 with propaganda, ruled by corrupt politicians bought and paid for by lobbyists, unelected Brussels elites working for corporate interests, and warmongers selling you fear and hysteria while destroying your future and your children’s future for the profits of arms manufacturers.


  • This framing incorrectly absolves German voters of their guilt. Unlike in the US, there are actual options in German elections. Instead most voters just choose to stick with the establishment that continues to screw them over. We can have a debate about the role of indoctrination and brainwashing by the media but the fact remains that the voters are culpable, just like most Germans were culpable for the Nazi regime remaining in power for as long as it did.






  • Why are there millions of Ukrainians living peacefully and happily in Russia alongside Russians, if Russians hate Ukrainians? Why do so many of these Ukrainians living in Russia support Russia and the SMO?

    Is it maybe because the only Ukrainians who the Russians actually hate are the Nazis who have hijacked the country of Ukraine, turned the country into a prison from which no one but the rich can leave, and brainwashed the people into hating Russians? Brainwashed them into hating themselves in fact, since a majority of Ukrainians are native Russian speakers…

    Should the Russians love these extremist fascists who murder and torture Ukrainians and Russians alike and commit terrorist acts against civilians?

    I’m not saying every single Russian is perfect or that there aren’t any who make stupid generalizations about Ukrainians, but clearly the mainstream Russian opinion and most importantly the government position, is that Ukrainians are brothers (literally, so many families have relatives on both sides of the border). The ethnic hatred hasn’t been elevated to the level of state policy there. The extremists in Russia haven’t been empowered like they have in Ukraine.

    And weren’t you claiming that the Russians are doing to Ukraine what Israel is doing to Gaza? Now you say they just want to “erase their identity”. Do the Zionists just want to turn the Palestinians into Israelis? Do they believe that Palestinians are just Israelis who have been led astray? No. They don’t even see the Palestinians as humans. They want to physically kill or remove them from the land.

    In Mariupol, Russia has rebuilt for free the local residents’ homes that were destroyed in the fighting. When is the last time Israel allowed Palestinians to even return to their homes at all, let alone rebuilt their homes that the Israelis demolished?

    Why is Ukrainian an official and protected language in the Donbass and Crimea and is even taught in schools there, if the Russians wanted to erase Ukrainian identity? Why are there streets named after Ukraine in Moscow?

    Meanwhile in Ukraine the Russian language is banned, even though it is the native language of most of Eastern Ukraine. They literally punish children for speaking Russian in schools. They burn Russian books. The Russian Orthodox Church is being attacked. History books were rewritten to glorify Nazis and vilify the Soviet liberators (many of them were Ukrainians btw). Streets and towns with Russian names were renamed, and many now bear names of Nazi collaborators. Who is trying to erase who’s identity?

    Why is it that after nearly four years of conflict involving millions of combatants in Ukraine, the conflict has one of the lowest civilian to combatant casualty ratios of any modern war? Why are there are nowhere near as many civilian casualties in all these years as there were in just the first few months of the Gaza genocide?

    Why is it that every time Israel drops a bomb they kill a dozen Palestinians, but when Russia launches entire salvos of hundreds of drones and missiles it is rare to have even one or two civilian casualties? Is it maybe because the Russians do not want to mass murder Ukrainians like the Israelis want to do to the Palestinians?



  • It’s actually the exact opposite. It is the Ukrainian Nazis who think and behave exactly like the Zionists, up to and including their systematic use of torture, their brutal execution of captives and civilians “sympathetic to the enemy”, and their penchant for assassinations and terrorist attacks on civilians.

    It is not a coincidence that they openly say that they want to turn Ukraine into a “larger Israel”. Or that they help Zionist backed terrorists in Syria and the Sahel.

    It is these Banderite fascists, who have illegally seized control of Ukraine and now brutally repress the population, who have a fanatical ethnic hatred of Russians and who want to ethnically cleanse Ukraine of everything Russian like the Israelis want to do to Palestinians.

    The Russians don’t and have never reciprocated this hatred. They consider the Ukrainians their brothers. The liberated territories are full of Ukrainians who now live as equal citizens of Russia. There are millions of Ukrainian refugees who chose to go to Russia.

    If and when Russia completely absorbs Ukraine, the Ukrainians will still be living on their land, just as peacefully as any of the other 150+ ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation. The same cannot be said of the Palestinians and their stolen land.

    The Kiev regime is Israel. The ethnic Russian people of the Donbass are the Palestinians. Only unlike the Palestinians they were lucky enough to have a neighboring country willing to step in to protect them and liberate them from the genocidal Western-backed fascists.

    Russia is doing in Ukraine what the collective Arab world should be doing in Palestine: eradicating a Nazi regime.




  • In the abstract that is true, but that’s not what is happening here. The entire “anti-corruption” apparatus in Ukraine was set up by the US and EU, some of these agencies even led directly by Westerners, as a tool to be used to apply pressure on their little puppets in Kiev and keep them in line. They had no problem with the corruption and the theft as long as the Kiev regime was obediently aligned with whatever the US wanted. But now that pressure needs to be applied to force Zelensky to the negotiating table suddenly they start noticing corruption. And they are still only going after marginal players for small amounts, it’s a symbolic threat to the big players who stole billions to not even think of getting too independent.

    Nothing about this is actually happening because anyone there is really worried about corruption. It’s very much just a power play.