I will fucking die on the hill that “Tankie” is a racial slur, specifically meant to demean mostly brown communists for daring to have a brain and a spine.

I fucking wonder why. Almost like he didn’t want to waste soldiers or put his own life at such a high risk when the walls were coming down

Putin isn’t stupid enough to betray China

I think you are being fearmongery, even if not purposefully.

The chances of Russia siding with the West are like 0.005 percent. I understand your concern, but I think you are fearmongering. Even if not on purpose

While I hate Russia inviting Israel ( if it’s true) I think it makes more sense when you view it as one “great power” schmoozing with another one.

You mean the Assad government that specifically asked for Russia’s help

It’s alright, comrade.

I understand that, too. Even words of support are just words.

For what it’s worth, if you need someone to talk to, I’m always here.

While I understand your tone and sentiment, I think you are being very unfair towards Ukrainians, even if alot of them brought it on themselves.

For almost as long as the war has been going on, but especially within the past 1-2 years, I’ve read reports that Ukrainian civilians will often fight back and attempt to rescue loved ones from being kidnapped by UkraNazi militias, and there have bene numerous cases of Ukrainians banding together to kill Ukrainian “recruiters” and conscriptors.

I don’t agree at all that Ukrainian nationalism is the opposite of self-determination. The actual Ukrainian self-determination supporters begged for Russia’s help.

I totally understand that alot of Ukrainians are/were violent, dangerous, white supremacist NATO-bootlicking, evil nutjobs. But it’s important to remember that Ukraine has been systematically psychologically collectively been abused and gaslit by decades of Nazi-Aligned Terrorist Organization propaganda.

I don’t think (I’m not saying that you think this, I’m just elaborating) that you can blame Ukrainians completely for the crimes of their government, even though there is alot of truth in that.

And unlike Israel, Ukraine has millennia, or at least multiple centuries, of history before it was part of Russia. Even though yes, Ukraine was often considered to be Russian territory.

I think that Ukraine has a right to exist, unlike Isn’treal, and I don’t view Ukraine as an inherently settler-colonialist project, and there is a very real different, albeit similar in alot of aspects, than from Russian culture.

I won’t shed any particularly heavy tears of if Ukraine ceases altogether to exist, but I really don’t think that the high-jacking and colonialist appropriation of actual Ukrainian nationalism should justify the claim that Ukraine is inherently as artificial as Israel.

Eh, I think it’s slightly disingenuous to say that Ukrainians didn’t fight for self-determination. But I’m not accusing you of being a liar or ignorant, I understand that you were very much generalizing and speaking hyperbolically, and I totally get the sentiment of what you mean.

I think it’s more accurate to say that any Ukrainians who did fight for actual self-determination were slandered and branded as public enemies, disappeared or murdered, bought off, or shunned and displaced. Which created a chilling effect and intensified conflict and suffering.

This but unironically