I hate how “anti-war” has been hijacked by these people to mean, let imperialist countries invade whoever they want with no consequences. (in the case of tankies, any imperialist country that isn’t in NATO).
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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Im not sure about other anti-war people but I can speak for myself. Like how Assad was clearly evil so is Russia, their actions are absolutely inexcusable. However, I think it is a valid question to ask how much good does foreign intervention do? It didnt do much good in Syria or Iraq and I dont think its doing much good in Ukraine. At this point Ukraine is another US proxy, who exactly does that help?
Well, except Ukraine is a unified and largely homogeneous nation with no threat of extremism and factionalism if they either win or at least keep their sovereignty intact after the war. The Middle East and Afghanistan have completely different culture, history, dynamics and variables unlike Ukraine, which is why supporting rebels there proved more troublesome and complicated.
The Ukrainian government has banned political opposition, enaged in censorship, and even banned a religion. In addition they're an extremely corrupt government, they're so corrupt that under any normal circumstances they wouldn't be allowed in the EU or NATO.
They banned a religion?
They banned the Russian Orthodox sect of Christianity.
The same one that blesses Russia's nuclear weapons.
I'd ban such a dangerous cult too.
Yeah, I am inclined not to call that a ban on
a religionif it's just a specific part of a religionI'd say it's debatable if it's the same religion as Christianity when they're blessing nukes, but regardless, I was just explaining what they were probably talking about when they were saying that Ukraine banned a religion.
Yeah, I understand that, and regarding blessing nukes, they really went full Warhammer on it
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/24/europe/ukraine-zelensky-orthodox-church-ban-intl/index.html
Oh, you mean they banned these guys?
I can't imagine why!
For the same reason these guys now ban anyone in their ranks who talks about Christians being peaceful 😅