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What's up with this straight up pro-china and pro-russia stuff on Lemmy lately? (toast.ooo)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Davel pretty much covered it. Part of the Maidan coup was legitimate, but the west took advantage of it and steered it towards its own interests. The seperatist movements were sparked by ethnic suppression and the coup against the president they supported.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Let's assume you're correct about US interference in Maidan.

    Why do you believe that is an excuse for war, but Russian interference in the Ukrainian state (to the point that their president was a Russian puppet), was acceptable?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    There's a lot of legwork you have to go to to prove Yanukovych was a "Russian puppet." He sided with the loan that didn't require privatizing Ukraine's safety nets and selling them to the west.

    Further, I'm not trying to find excuses for war, but explanations for why it happened. Again, Russia doesn't give a shit about plunder. They just want Kiev to stop suppressing ethnic Russians and for there to be a better buffer along with NATO neutrality. They aren't after financial domination or extraction.

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