There is no sign that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is coming to an end, but Germany is already debating whether the Bundeswehr should participate in peacekeeping forces.

  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    Are you actually pretending that there was any kind of organic internal conflict without russian influence?

    Why is that so absurd? Donetsk and Luhansk are russian-speaking and were vitally economically dependant on Russia. They were afraid that Kyiv politically focusing on Europe would be disastrous for their economy.

    I’m not arguing that Russia didn’t have any interests there, that Russia didn’t do some weird insurgency crap. I’m also not saying that it payed of for the poor sods who lived there. But believing that Ukraine would have been completely united after Euromaidan (which was allegedly also helped by western forces) if it weren’t for Putin is naive.

    You don’t have to be “good” to be incomparably better than ruzzia

    I’m not in the business of comparing imperialists. I oppose them all. And my (very limited) sphere of influence doesn’t reach into Russia. I can’t do anything against Putin. I am however living in a NATO member counrty. And Karl Liebknechtput it best:

    The main enemy of every people is in their own country