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  • Yes agreed, at this point Putin will look weak if he doesn’t get something out of all this. Which could give someone an opportunity to take him down.

    They don’t really need more fuel reserves, but they want to prevent Ukraine from undercutting them on the market.

    Putin’s bridge to Crimea has almost been destroyed already, and they’ve stopped even using it for a lot of military logistics. A land bridge isn’t vulnerable like that.


  • The purpose behind attacking Ukraine was to prevent them from joining NATO

    NO, that’s Kremlin propaganda.

    If the Kremlin was worried about NATO, they wouldn’t put everything they have against Ukraine and leave themselves so exposed like they are right now where Ukraine alone has been easily holding part of their territory for a month.

    The reason for this barbaric war was to take industrial infrastructure in Donbas, secure a land bridge to Crimea, take recently uncovered fossil fuel resources, give Russians a common enemy to make them more nationalistic, and prevent Ukraine from flourishing as a democracy because then Russians might want the sameas their neighbors.


  • It’s interesting to think about “NATO vs Russia” framing.

    When we think like that, of seems like there are these two similar entities opposed to each other. Not even close to true!

    NATO = THIRTY TWO distinct governments representing many hundreds of millions of people who voted for them

    Russia = One government that doesn’t properly represent its people and heavily relies on propaganda to survive







  • More direct support. I think a large portion of the accounts on those three instances are bot/shill accounts run by the CCP and Kremlin. I suspect the CCP runs lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. Not sure about Hexbear.

    To be clear, I generally don’t have a problem with Marxists or communists. I think that’s a facade used to cover up the propaganda. No intelligent communist or Marxist would support either the Kremlin or CCP at this point.

    The fediverse is a fantastic place for propagandists. There’s no central censor, absolutely no budget for countering propaganda.