Ukraine
Rules:
-
No sympathy with the enemy or its collaborators. Russian and North Korean soldiers are fascists committing a genocide. Remember that.
-
Objective and factual reporting from the battlefield, parliaments, etc. is encouraged, even if it's about bad news for Ukraine.
-
Insulting Putin and his cronies (Orban, Trump, Musk,...) is absolutely fine but don't use homophobic or similar language against them. Members of the queer community don't deserve to be compared to that scum. Also: Putin disciminates against gay people. If you do as well, you're part of the problem.
-
Don't insult or use overly harsh language against other commentators.
-
Don't submit direct links to Twitter/X and Truth Social posts. You may: Post a screenshot + quote, do a full quote and name the author, direct link to a proxy service like xcancel.com, deep link an image embedded in a tweet because Lemmy will cache a copy.
-
Don't just complain about paywalls. If you encounter one, be a sport and link to an archived version instead. Use Firefox + uBlock Origin with the annoyances filters enabled and https://filterlists.com/lists/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter to avoid encountering many in the first place.
view the rest of the comments
A lot of countries looking to push imperialism usually start small to give their military some practical experience and pursue larger wars later on. Russia has had two wars with Ukraine, one war in Syria, and various Wagner Group conflicts in Africa. It is also likely that the current Ukrainian war isn't going to result in antebellum borders but a pyrrhic victory.
Russia may not go to war with the EU/NATO within a few years, but it is becoming more probable, especially as Putin is starting more of his political justification on Making Russia Strong Again. A Russian military with combat experience and modern tactics may be able to overpower a larger and richer neighbor with a peacetime military and outdated doctrine. That's how Nazi Germany defeated France in World War II.
Don't forget Georgia