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Iran says Ukrainian attack on vessel in Caspian Sea killed sailor (www.reuters.com)
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[–] -3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Combating an armed insurrection sponsored by your powerful neighbor is not ethnic cleansing.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    Ah of course, straight out of the playbook of Ukraine's ally Israel. All those civillians we murdered were actually Bad Foreign Enemy People. Crazy how this armed insurrection of yours seemed to be made up of middle aged women, huh?

    https://youtu.be/1fsMqYqHnN0

    Liberals love to talk shit and look down on countries where ethnic cleansing happens as uncivilized (except of course for Ukranian ethnic cleansing, you just ignore that like you ignore all the nazis) while themselves being exactly the kind of people who would happily pick up a machete if someone in authority told them their neighbor was a Russian plant.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The armed insurrection was made up of people who, among other things, used a 9K37 "Buk" surface-to-air missile launcher (conveniently on loan from Russia) to kill hundreds of people traveling overhead in a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet.
    Not sure where you're going with that Machete accusation.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Were there fourteen thousand people aboard that plane? No? Because that's how many people your favorite nazi puppet government slaughtered in the name of "national purity". Hey, you guys like to talk about supporting the lesser evil, right?

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You don't know what you're talking about. That 14,300 casualties figure you're likely alluding to includes 6,500 Russian-sponsored separatist fighters, 4,400 Ukrainian (!) soldiers, and 3,404 civilian victims on both sides of the conflict. The three hundred people killed in the separatist shootdown of MH17 are included in the latter figure.

    Both the OSCE and the International Criminal Court have investigated Russia's claims of Ukraine's alleged genocide in the Donbas and come to the conclusion that there is no such thing.

    On the contrary, Vladimir Putin (like Benjamín Netanyahu) is being sought by the ICC as a war criminal.

    If you were to stop regurgitating state propaganda and listen to actual genocide scholars, UN institutions, and the ICC you would have to admit that it looks very much like Russia has always been using these allegations of genocide against Russian people to prepare an illegal occupation of Ukraine and to mask its own genocidal activities.

    That's all the enlightenment I can provide to you and your ilk; you are now going on my block list. Have a great life.

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