Originally posted by Alaska: Sure there is, the portions in dispute are historically Russian, they don’t even speak Ukrainian.
According to Putin, all of Ukraine is “historically Russian”. And they mostly spoke Russian in Mariupol and the Russians blew it to hell anyway. Putin doesn’t actually care about the Russian speaking people in Ukraine.
Originally posted by Alaska: Zelenskyy prohibited the speaking of Russian in the disputed areas. How would you feel if someone said you couldn’t even use your native language?
I would tell them to fuck off.
First, no it hasn’t. And second, the law that was passed was done before Zelenskyy took office.
According to Putin, all of Ukraine is “historically Russian”. And they mostly spoke Russian in Mariupol and the Russians blew it to hell anyway. Putin doesn’t actually care about the Russian speaking people in Ukraine.
Of course they blew the shit out of Mariopol... because the Nazi Azov battalion were using all the civilian buildings (hospitals, schools, apartment buildings) as operational and staging centers. The Russians had to dig these rats out (literally). And they finally cornered them in the steel factory and forced them to surrender.
Originally posted by Alaska: Zelenskyy prohibited the speaking of Russian in the disputed areas. How would you feel if someone said you couldn’t even use your native language?
I would tell them to fuck off.
First, no it hasn’t. And second, the law that was passed was done before Zelenskyy took office.
In April 2019, Ukraine’s parliament approved a language law making Ukrainian the mandatory language for public sector workers. The adoption of this law required citizens to know Ukrainian and obliged civil servants, soldiers, doctors and teachers to communicate in Ukrainian.
According to Putin, all of Ukraine is “historically Russian”. And they mostly spoke Russian in Mariupol and the Russians blew it to hell anyway. Putin doesn’t actually care about the Russian speaking people in Ukraine.
Of course they blew the shit out of Mariopol... because the Nazi Azov battalion were using all the civilian buildings (hospitals, schools, apartment buildings) as operational and staging centers. The Russians had to dig these rats out (literally). And they finally cornered them in the steel factory and forced them to surrender.
And the “Great Army of Russia” only had to sacrifice thousands of Russian speaking civilians to do it. Go force Z!!
And the “Great Army of Russia” only had to sacrifice thousands of Russian speaking civilians to do it. Go force Z!!
Actually, the civilians evacuated towards the Russian lines... not the Ukranian military. The Azov Nazis shot the civilians as they attempted to flee the combat areas. The Azov scum even used the civilians as human shields in many, many cases.
The law, which obliges all citizens to know the Ukrainian language and makes it a mandatory requirement for civil servants, soldiers, doctors, and teachers, was championed by outgoing President Petro Poroshenko.
He is expected to sign it into law before he leaves office in coming weeks after losing re-election on Sunday to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an actor who mainly speaks Russian in public.
No, I’m beat, been up for days. I’m sure these idiots will manage to blow up the planet which pisses me off because I have vulnerable kids around Seattle.
If they blow up the planet, it won’t matter whether they’re around Seattle or anywhere else. But there’s nothing any of us can really do about that, so I don’t see the point in worrying about it.
I don't understand why it seems there is such a fight over who the bad guy or the good guy is in this 'conflict'. The bad guy is Biden or rather, whoever it is behind Biden. The bad guy is the US and the UN and NATO. There is no good guy.
I'm similarly confused about how anyone has a hard time identifying the bad guy. Of the countries involved in this war, only one decided to invade another country, disrupting and ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands. That was Russia. They are the bad guys.
It is fair to say that the US has been the bad guy before. The invasion of Iraq was a similar situation. Hopefully we learned a lesson from that, but superpowers are slow to learn and repeat the same mistakes over and over. Now it is time for Russia to learn the Afghanistan lesson again.
Biden is a shitty president, but I can't really disagree with how he has handled Ukraine. It is hard to imagine any president in recent memory taking a much different policy.
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