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DrBeerkitty t1_j5evt5t wrote

russia is looking at this war as both the opportunity to claim new territory and get rid of undesirables - it is a deeply racist and homophobic country.

We might be thinking that they are losing their most vulnerable male population (and they are - this will have a profound effect on their future) but they see it as a golden opportunity to get rid of all non-slavic people WHILE doing some conquering.

Being Ukrainian myself, I can say from personal experience, even in the Soviet Union - Ukrainians were considered 2nd class citizens, simple village type folks that can't really be smart and were constantly ridiculed by russians.

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ivandelapena t1_j5f123s wrote

This is why the Russian public are generally unsympathetic to the idea of Ukrainian independence. They can't imagine that Ukrainians are anything other than lower than Russians. This is why Putin cannot have an independent Ukraine, because it will inevitably become more successful than Russia and when Russians see that they'll realise they've been fed lies.

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DrBeerkitty t1_j5f29h0 wrote

One of the early cell intercepts of the invading russian troops calling home had this interesting episode -

This russian is calling his wife and is all very excited saying "OMG, their icecream is amazing, I ate like a kilo of it, so much better than ours! And you know what? Their villages all have asphalt roads and the houses, have you seen the houses? Lots of appliances in each of them! HOW DARE THEY LIVE BETTER THAN US!"

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flukshun t1_j5ffci9 wrote

I remember one occupied home tagged up with "you live so well, why do you fight then?" They can't accept that Ukraine doesn't owe all it's prosperity to the Russian Federation that's done nothing but constantly fuck them over.

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ComradeMoneybags t1_j5hsul6 wrote

Russia is basically crabs in a bucket personified. They can’t win, but the closest thing possible is to bring everyone down.

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jahsd t1_j5imp5x wrote

>when Russians see that they'll realise they've been fed lies

Baltics?

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tacticalcop t1_j5fsojn wrote

yeah im an american because of russia’s continued aggression towards my ancestors from ukraine, they’ve been doing this crap for so long

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aew360 t1_j5ih26c wrote

No wonder Tucker Carlson is in love with Russia

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nunziavaer543210 t1_j5ivla7 wrote

putin is use tucker like a sock puppet, he prefers to use trump, but hes pretty much unreliable until he becomes useful. he still has limited control over Lich MCONNEL though

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jahsd t1_j5imior wrote

"Unsesireables" have got they citizenship from Russia. If that's undesirables I'd like to know what desireables are.

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