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      Russian pacifists want Russia to stop invading Ukraine.

      Lemmygrad / Hexbear pacifists want Ukraine to appease Russia and give up territory.

      They are not the same.

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        Russian pacifists want Russia to stop invading Ukraine.

        Western “pacifists” want to send NATO tanks to Ukraine.

        They are not the same.

        Russian anti-war activists have a correct position.

        But an important consideration should be whether one’s actions actually contribute to Russia withdrawing sooner, or if they instead help justify further, equally self-interested NATO involvement in the war.

        Unless you are Russian, it’s most likely the latter.

        There are two imperialist blocs involved in the conflict, and it doesn’t matter which one of them technically started it.

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          There are two imperialist blocs involved in the conflict, and it doesn’t matter which one of them technically started it.

          I’m sorry, but when it involves one imperialist bloc invading a smaller country, then it does matter.

          Do you have the same position regarding the Vietnam war, Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan? Or do you only support whichever side is not aligned with the US?

          • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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            The Vietnam War? You mean the one where a rebel faction backed by Russia rose up against a smaller, recently established pro-Western government, and the US came to the defense of that government, because if they lost the enemy would surely keep expanding more and more across the entire region, and all the peace advocates were dismissed as supporting appeasement? That Vietnam war?

            Yes, we take a similar position on that as we do to this, do you?

      • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        No, we want Ukraine to stop trying to ethnically cleanse the Donbas and give the people there self determination. And we want the Ukrainian government to stop forcibly conscripting people to go die needlessly on the front in a clearly losing war. We want NATO to stop enabling all of that (it literally wouldn’t be happening if they weren’t demanding that it continue). That’s what it is to be a peace activist. And I’m fairly sure I can speak for all of us, we are not pacifists, lol. But we are advocates for peace and the end to the horrible and needless loss of life.

        Nice try to completely twist reality, and completely misrepresent us, as you war mongering dronies always do.

        Edit: We actually give a shit about all the Ukrainian people being thrown into a fucking meat grinder. We care about their lives. The people who just say “more weapons to Ukraine!” do not give a shit about the lives of the people there. They’re happy to just let the war keep dragging on until the last capable Ukrainian is dead. An example of how WE feel about the tragedy of the situation: https://hexbear.net/post/503747 (hexbear link to a lemmygrad news post)

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          Edit: We actually give a shit about all the Ukrainian people being thrown into a fucking meat grinder. We care about their lives. The people who just say “more weapons to Ukraine!” do not give a shit about the lives of the people there. They’re happy to just let the war keep dragging on until the last capable Ukrainian is dead. An example of how WE feel about the tragedy of the situation: https://hexbear.net/post/503747 (hexbear link to a lemmygrad news post)

          So be fucking outraged then that Russia started, and is continuing this war. They’re the ones killing Ukrainians in their homeland.

          A comment from that link:

          Omg, it’s a full on genocide of Ukrainian people. Just damm the Western libs… Fuck this planet.

          Russia is committing genocide. They’ve been raping and killing civilians since the start, this is where your anger and energy needs to be. Imagine being outraged at the nation defending itself from genocide, and those countries that are sending the tools that they’re being asked for to help defend themselves.

          • Clippy [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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            Gaddafi’s troops are committing rape to children en masse, they have issued viagra to mass rape people since the start. this is where your anger and energy need to be. Imagine being outraged at the nation defending itself from mass rape, and those countries that are sending the tools that they’re being asked for to help defend themselves.

          • So be fucking outraged then that Russia started and is continuing this war

            its so weird that the day the tanks rolled over the border of Ukraine history magically just began, there was no material reality prior to this event, or any geopolitical events of consequence we could connect to this outcome, certainly none that had to do with openly threatening to expand a hostile military alliance with supersonic and nuclear missiles 5 minutes from the capital city of Moscow

            i wonder if the US has ever done the exact same thing in the name of national security and what the NATO heads said about it then

            every pro NATO take is certified baby brain shit that demonstrates nothing but a lack of understanding of material reality, history, geopolitics, on top of an absolute disregard for human life, gross hypocrisy and a level of false outrage that is always directly proportional to how loudly they’re calling to escalate bloodshed

            Russia is committing genocide. “So do the humanitarian thing and send depleted uranium shells to this warzone. Slava Ukraini!!!”

            log off dude

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              log off dude

              No :)

              RUSSIA BEST!!! RUSSIA THE PEACEKEEPERS!!! THE HUMANITARIANS! DEFEND RUSSIA AT ALL COSTS! SPREAD ALL THE RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA!! RUSSIA CAN DO NO WRONG! POOR POOR RUSSIA HAD NO CHOICE!!

              Am I doing it right?

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                No. You’re not doing it right. You’re supposed to learn what the fuck you’re talking about first. And you didn’t so now you’re having a childish tantrum at people talking back to you.

                You think they told you to log off for their benefit and not your own? That’s twice you’ve said something stupid because you didn’t know what was going on around you.

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                  They’re defending the imperialistic warmongering Russian state who are shelling and bombing civilians and who are literally creating the bloodbath.

                  I’m not the one that needs to log off. But go ahead and keep shilling for Russia.