In a deliberate act of ecocide, 3yrs ago today russia destroyed the Kakhovka dam, murdering people, causing a minimum of $14 billion in damage, flooding villages and towns, devastating ecosystems, and killing animals.
We must not allow russia to whitewash itself.
This is fundamentally flawed logic that unfortunately many on the left continue to embrace: "Economic sanctions punish ordinary people who did not ask for this war." Interestingly enough, in their minds, the same logic somehow doesn't apply to Israel.
However, it presumes that most Russian citizens are victims of the regime, not its enablers. Obviously, there are a brave few who actually try to do something and have paid a price for doing so, but they are rather the exception. The vast majority either actively supports the war or simply does not care enough to oppose it because it hasn't significantly disrupted their daily lives. Yet.
Many in the U.S. are not aware that Russia's war machine is not primarily fueled by conscripts dragged unwillingly to the front. It relies heavily on volunteers who knowingly sign contracts and travel to Ukraine to kill people for money. They don't have a moral problem with it and see it as just another risky job.
Those who are not in the military manufacture drones, sew uniforms, maintain military logistics, and keep defense factories running around the clock. They produce propaganda on TV, print books that justify aggression, adopt stolen Ukrainian kids, create "patriotic" art, spread pro-war messages on social media, and pay taxes that finance the war - or simply do nothing and accept the invasion of Ukraine because "what can we do?"
Sanctions are not designed to be pleasant. Their purpose is precisely to increase the economic and political cost of aggression both for the regime and its enablers. If Russian society can continue living largely normal lives while missiles rain down on Ukrainian cities every single night, there is little incentive for anyone inside Russia to question the war.
@Ilhan How about you go visit russia (not just moscow and st petersburg) and ask some ordinary "innocent" russians their stance on the war, putin, and the US? And how come you believe boycotting and sanctioning Israel is efficient, but sanctioning russia isn't, you hypocrite?
No, you’re not sending “more money to Ukraine,” and you never have.
You used to send American money to American arms manufacturers so that American workers and engineers could have more contracts, jobs, salaries, and tax revenue while producing American weapons in America for Ukraine or replacing old equipment from U.S. stockpiles.
That allowed the Ukrainian military to keep saving their country, while your top-tier geopolitical enemy, a KGB dictatorship obsessed with hatred toward you, could be defeated in its war of aggression in Europe and critically weakened for decades to come -- without a single American soldier firing a single shot.
But then you decided to start pretending that night is day.
Я не дам вам забути це фото.
2 червня 2014. Луганськ. Кацап штурмує український прикордонний загін на кварталі Мирний , переходячи між будинками прикриваючись дітьми.
Як воює кацап було зрозуміло вже тоді. Хіба хтось в світі це усвідомив?...
@lukomski_sebito Take politics out of sports? Yeah, tell the ruzzian athletes to quit their service in the ruzzian army that kills Ukrainian athletes, fucking moron.
As the world celebrates Victory in Europe Day, let us not forget how World War II began — with a deal.
In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. This agreement set the stage for the joint destruction of Europe.
Hitler invaded Poland from the west, and Stalin followed from the east. The USSR then attacked Finland, annexed the Baltics, and seized territory from Romania. Between 1939 and 1941, the Soviets supplied Nazi Germany with oil, grain, and raw materials — fueling its conquest of Europe.
Stalin was not Hitler’s victim. He was his partner in crime. Together, they ignited a war that would claim over 70 million lives.
Truth matters more than propaganda.
Вбито 30 людей за добу - світовій спільноті похуй, нема навіть символічного засудження вже. Зате не дай Боже, якийсь дрон полетить на рф 9 травня, то масово просруться про вармонгера Зеленського і що Україна не хоче миру.
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Hasan Piker, a Turkish-American streamer and millionaire. He’s best known for his champagne socialism, rabid criticism of the US and Israel, support for the Soviet Union and for Chinese and Russian invasions, and for mistreating his dog.
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@P_Kallioniemi@YouTubeCreators Twitch did the right thing only for a few days and then, in a typical twitch clown behavior, they unbanned all the channels involved. 🤡
“Alabuga,” an entity under sanctions imposed by the US, EU, and UK due to its direct involvement in the production of military drones, is hosting and sponsoring an esports tournament on @Twitch, while the platform ignores violations and responds that no rules were broken
Russian invaders are robbing and looting apartments abandoned by Ukrainians,
and also shooting pianos with machine guns.
Scumbags. Human garbage.
Lowest of the lowest, filth.