Don't forget Ukraine trying to cause a nuclear panic claiming a reactor was gonna go up like Chernobyl to get nato to intervene. That was fucking wild

Rhodesian supporters joining the Ukrainian forces with Rhodesian insignia, neo nazi Ukrainian mayors getting interviewed on PBS news, Azov battalion training grannies for a photo op, Ukraine inventing Chinese students that don't actually exist as fake civilian casualties, Zelensky photographs of him in Kyiv actually from last year April and December, Zelensky actually in either Lviv or Poland, Ghost of Kyiv nonsense, Ukraine claiming to have killed 10 000 Russian troops already, Skully/snake island troops actually alive (can't remember the exact island name), and that's just what I can remember now.

The EU unilaterally declaring that member states would provide aircraft to Ukraine

Lindsay Graham calling for the assassination of the leader of a peer nuclear power

Ukraine National Guard proudly posting a video of the Azov battalion greasing bullets with pig fat

PBS casually interviewing a neo-Nazi mayor who had a portrait of Bandera on the wall behind him

The former COO of Ring doorbells in Ukraine doing influencer style posts with a rifle. All posts are in English, of course.

Wine moms using the word “thermobaric” whenever footage of an explosion is posted

People applauding themselves on diagnosing the entire state of Russian logistics based on the brand of tire on a truck

It's the dumbest war ever

I've been keeping a mental list of the bullshit propaganda, like fake Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island sacrificing themselves then miraculously being alive, the nuclear plant, those chinese students getting killed but never existing, all the photos from 2014 and video games passed off as current, Zelensky being in Kiev Lvov Poland Kiev again all while apparently dodging several dozen assassination attempts.

Coursera is discontinuing courses from Russian universities, lol.

I was thinking about this earlier today and wondering if anyone was compiling a list similar to the "Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict" found at the top of each of these megathreads. I was thinking of trying to put one together, but it's a little beyond my ability rn. Maybe if there was a way for people here to contribute examples to an ongoing list, that might be a good way to go. Maybe someone can make an initial post, then everyone can add in examples with links in the comments, and edit the post accordingly? Kinda what's happening with your comment here, but as a whole post on it's own that can also be linked at the top of these megathreads. I dunno, it could never be exhaustive of course, but it would be a great resource, and something I for one really wish I had on hand to use when arguing with libs who think CNN is the bastion of truth with respect to what's going on.

i don't even think it's up to ukraine anymore. there isn't really a ukraine now. it's just a cia puppet state. of course anyone trying to negotiate anything that ends with no NATO is gonna get merc'd.

Definitely gonna have to wait and see for additional details and confirmation but holy shit thats fucked up if true.

Edit: Ukranian news sites are now repeating it alongside claims from the SBU that they had evidence of high treason in the form of telephone communications.

Also so many fucking libs arguing that summary execution without due process for suspicion of treason is good actually.

Sounds like a warning to Zelensky …

ukrainian media is reporting it as well. what the fuck :sadness-abysmal:

You know things are bad when the secret police just starts assassinating people

Was it baseball cap guy?

Come here and commiserate.

Laugh like :joker-troll:

i'm too busy being fucking confused by elden ring

like wtf is a glintstone key this dude won't even tell me how to get one is this the part of the game where i just wander aimlessly until i find shiny important object like dang wtf yo

i could use a guide but like i want the Sense of Exploration™ but i'm slowly thinking this is just going to be more annoying than satisfying

plus i'm starting to think my strength build might be boring??? i saw my friend casting dragon magic and dude turned his head into a dragon i shit you not it was the funniest shit i've ever seen

but i also just like the big sword????

Spend a few hours a day digging a ditch and using a sledge hammer to break up rocks too big to dig up...

I'm just not that online to begin with.

Critical support for Muslim colonists of Europe o7

I'm enraged and nauseated at the same time.

All refugees are welcome. Period.

Muslim youth of military age who have crossed our borders trying to destabilize and colonize Europe

Westoid projection at work

This is exactly why revolutionary defeatism is justified, even in the "innocent underdog" country.

Zelensky is more than a president

Dude needs to have his ability to use the internet physically burned out of him like Case in neuromancer

Such an incredible leader he lead his nation into an unwinnable conflict because he fell for NATOs backroom promises of support.

What a great leader. Truly inspiring .

I've been following Gibson for a couple of years and it never ceases to surprise me how much of a lib the father of cyberpunk is. And people were going "it's such a politically radical genre" when that video game came out.

This is literally cultish gibberish, like what the fuck does any of these points mean, how is he reimagining culture, how is he reimagining borders, how is any of what he is doing reimagining "digital citizenship & leadership" and what the fuck does that mean, and what do you fucking mean he is reimagining the idea of living on earth.

@ASBMilitary: The Mariupol-Nikolskoe-Rozovka-Pologi-Orekhov-Zaporozhye route has been chosen as a humanitarian corridor, the authorities of Mariupol say.

Several stages of evacuation from Mariupol will be carried out over several days, so that everyone who wants to leave can do so

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I can’t see what else the goal would be, unless it really was some plan to split the world into East and West; to really solidify the Cold War that’s been ongoing (I do not however buy “denazification”)

Cause, Ukraine seems as fucked politically as the US, when it comes to internal matters anyway. I just can’t imagine Russia is really interested in the state-building and counter-insurgency—or, more accurately, sees that as even a medium-term viable solution.

I still suspect there were specific, concrete actions taken by the US/US-affiliated people that Russia acted in response to (not just the long term NATO stuff, but something more specific).

In hindsight, the US really looked like it was playing a game of chicken by talking about the “imminent” Russian invasion for weeks on end; you can just imagine some CIA spook telling his boss “I know sir we’ve been trying to trigger the invasion but he’s not taking the bait”.

I know that’s conspiracy brain but the insane US involvement just feels like it was very much a ginned-up situation and, frankly, it looks like the US/NATO found themselves in a situation they didn’t really expect. Russia just occupying the breakaway regions was probably what the US was going for; I imagine all parties saw that coming sooner or later, and I imagine the CIA encouraged the build up of whatever kind of anti-Russia fighters it could manage in the region to make it a quagmire.

Like obviously Russia was prepared to take military action against its semi-hostile neighbor; I imagine their government has always found it pragmatic to have a plan for such a thing. I don’t necessarily see that as a sign of aggression, so much as military competence

It shouldn't really be understated that demilitarization is a nebulous and potentially very severe outcome. Without an army, even with something like a "defense force", a state pretty much has to get under someone else's umbrella. Presumably Russia still doesn't want Ukraine under the West's aegis, unless they simply want some agreement that means no or minimal military hardware or missiles will be in Ukraine. But that seems untenable long term. So I have to conclude, if we take demilitarization to be the goal, that Russia wants Ukraine as a sort of protectorate.