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      • teft@startrek.website
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        1 year ago

        Funny how all you tankies have been saying the same thing since the war began. Yet ukraine is still in it and advancing. So odd. Almost like all you tankies want people outside the warzone to ignore ukraine and give up, stop sending arms. I'm sure that's all a coincidence though.

        • culpritus [any]
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          1 year ago

          Even the Ukraine Caucus in the US Congress are RedFashTankies now.

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          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Ukrainian_Caucus

        • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          ukraine is still in it and advancing

          But that's just not true, in fact Russia is making gains on the north and south lines now (source for the map is the Institute for the Study of War: https://isw.pub/InteractiveUkraineWarMap)

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          The Washington Post: Ukraine running out of options to retake significant territory

          The Economist: Ukraine’s sluggish counter-offensive is souring the public mood

          CNN: “Russians have a number of defensive lines and they (Ukrainian forces) haven’t really gone through the first line,” said a senior Western diplomat. “Even if they would keep on fighting for the next several weeks, if they haven’t been able to make more breakthroughs throughout these last seven, eight weeks, what is the likelihood that they will suddenly, with more depleted forces, make them? Because the conditions are so hard.”

          Almost like all you tankies want people outside the warzone to ignore ukraine and give up, stop sending arms

          Yeah I want the war to end so that Ukrainian and Russian workers stop dying for the American/European/Russian elites, is that a bad thing?

          • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Didn't realize the US and EU are to blame for Russia invading its neighbor unprovoked. Could have sworn it was Russia trying to wrap up what they started in the "Free Republics" and Crimea.

            • ZapataCadabra [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Do you know what happened in Ukraine in the week before Feb 24 2022? Or the 8 years before that?

              • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
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                1 year ago

                Yes, I know what was actually happening in the country, but I'm sure you have some RT propaganda that only a Russian would be dumb enough to believe.

                • culpritus [any]
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                  1 year ago

                  https://natoassociation.ca/why-yanukovych-was-right-to-exercise-caution-with-the-eu-ukraine-deal-part-2/

                  Canadian NATO-friendly website February 9, 2014

                  Ukraine was hit really hard by the 2008 economic crisis and is still struggling to recover. It has beenforecast that Ukraine will be cash-strapped in the near future and are scheduled to face approximately $ 8 billion in debt repayments next year alone. Considering all of this on the horizon, it is only sensible that Yanukovych and the Ukrainian government demand that the European Union put forward a solid plan – in the interest of its citizens- to help the soften the heavy blow that the Ukrainian economy will inevitably suffer as it is exposed to a new economic market. The EU has offered just $800 million in aid as a potential insulator against the immediate effects of joining the EU. When one considers that Ukraine thinks the immediate blow of an EU deal to its economy will be in the region of $20 billion, the EU’s proposal does not even begin to address any issues. Russia on the other hand, have offered $15 billion of economic aid to Ukraine to help mitigate any potential economic disasters in the near future. Although there are doubts as to the long term effects of the Russian offer on Ukraine’s economy, Yanukovych cannot be blamed for holding out for a better deal for his country. It is what he was elected to do. Throwing his country into a monumental deal without taking into proper consideration the immediate side effects would be amateurish.

                  This is supposedly the match that light the "Revolution of Dignity" that completely ignored the western Ukrainian (ethnic Russian) populace.

                  • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
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                    1 year ago

                    You're almost right. The match was the attempt to take the Russian deal and, knowing full well what that meant, people took to the streets.

                    That $15 billion would be an investment in a puppet state at Putin's beck and call. Belarus is all the evidence you need, but you can also see how well the CSTO is going for Armenia. Utterly worthless deals.

                    • culpritus [any]
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                      1 year ago

                      There's data available here if you want to see the numbers yourself:
                      https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/UKR/ukraine/gdp-gross-domestic-product

                      1992 was the start of CSTO.

                      Ukraine GDP per capita 1992 = $1418
                      Ukraine GDP per capita 2021 = $4828

                      Armenia GDP per capita 1992 = $356
                      Armenia GDP per capita 2021 = $4967

                      Belarus GDP per capita 1992 = $1668
                      Belarus GDP per capita 2021 = $7490

                      Care to elaborate on your comment in light of this data?

                      • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
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                        1 year ago

                        The fact CSTO has a defense clause which Russia has failed to follow through on multiple times? You talk economic growth, cherry picking stats you like, when I'm talking about the core foundation of a defense pact. The defense. Not once has the group actually defended a member state during an armed conflict, specifically the ongoing fight between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

                        It is a toothless pact. I'll let Lord handle your stat nonsense, since that wasn't the point of me mentioning CSTO.

                        • culpritus [any]
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                          1 year ago

                          You do not dispute the economics from the article or my comments.

                          marx-ok

            • Nakoichi [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              tfw the entire universe popped into existence in the last year and a half.

              That's fuckin crazy man.

        • Flaps [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Luckily you are the guy who isn't influenced by propaganda at all

        • Nakoichi [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Hey there not a tankie, but just here to say that there is a global chorus of capitalist media criticizing Russia. We don't really need to join in the western circlejerk over this war and that it is more productive to try to balance that. Remember the atomic unit of propaganda is not lies but emphasis.

          Anyway all that said lol eat shit liberal.

    • monobot@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I jusy went over their posts and maybe 20 percent cover Ukraine, most are jusr critical of US and most are widely accepeted western news sites ( ft, economist, independent ).

      • teft@startrek.website
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        1 year ago

        I counted his posts and he has 24 non duplicate posts. Of those 10 are critical of ukraine. The rest seem to be anti-vax or anti-us. 10/24= 41% So almost half of his posts are critical of ukraine. Also widely accepted sources doesn't change the fact that this OP has an obvious agenda. Weird that you would try to defend him with disinformation though. Isn't that a common authoritarian trick?

        • HalidBeslic [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I love how you framed an article by the Independent (a liberal UK paper) on the relationship between the pharma industry and western governments as anti-vax. Is disinformation a common liberal trick?

        • ToastyWaffle@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          People are allowed to post what they want, you're allowed to post any pro ukraine stuff you like. You can't just piss and cry because people have different opinions than you, and can link pro-western sources backing up their point of view. The mind bending is unreal.

          For a Trekkie, You do know Star Trek is supposed to be influenced by a post resource scarcity communist society right?

        • monobot@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          I just assume that everyone has some kind of agenda, so I don't see real problem with it.

          Can you find many accounts that equally represent pro and against war stances and reportings? I most certanly haven't seen them, nor did I see comentes negating their stance.

          I don't have a goal to chamge yoir opinion I am commenting for other people seeing your comment so that they get differet view point and check for themselves.

          I think the biggest issue is that a lot of people from US never before ventured on non-US part of the net and have problem accepting that some people have negatinve opinions on US foreign policies (which would be whole non white part of the world). And now that you are exposed to differences of opinion you react the same as for your internal politics - by seeing it as an enemy and not another human beings with different life experiences.

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