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I am genuinely confused by hexbear's opinion on the Ukraine war (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What I have learned:

Russia has already won the Ukraine war
Which NATO started
A lot of people in the West think that Ukraine should surrender
Also Ukraine was the world's main provider of CSAM
Also Ukraine is exploited by the West but if they can unite with Russia then their economy and everything else will finally be alright

It's literally like a bizarro world and everyone is over there agreeing with it. I'm genuinely confused by, who even are these people (what is the mixture of Russian bots / Russian-aligned ordinary people / confused Westerners / some other explanation.)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

I agree, they simply put all the blame on the West for the world's problems no matter what it is and to be fair I often agree with those statements.

It's just purely idiotic to support another country going the same thing and denying facts such as Russia invaded Ukraine.

I'm a socialist, somewhat left of a standard social democrat in the EU, but fuck, these guys are giving the whole ideology a bad name. There are still some recent movements that are good such as solarpunk, degrowth, minimalism, third spaces and tool libraries. I hope the Gen Z and Alpha get in on those so they can vote out our generation of rampant consumerism and privatisation.