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Dunking on Tankies from a leftist perspective.
A tankie is someone who defends/supports authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes who call themselves "socialist". The term originated from people supporting the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Nowadays they are just terminally online, denying genocides, and falling for totalitarian propaganda and calling such regimes "true democracies". remember to censor usernames when necessary.
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It's funny how tankies come up with walls of texts but they always exclude the will of the people. Like wtf, is this just a piece of land for you bigger powers argue about?
Over 90% of the people in the country that is at war want to be a part of NATO.
Edit: I was certain that I read about an over 90% agreement about joining NATO but checking for sources the most recent I found said 83%.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/record-83-ukrainians-want-nato-membership-poll-2022-10-03/
Yeah, and people in Crimea never ever wanted to be part of Ukraine, and yet Zelensky has promised to take them back. Same for most (although in this case not all) people in the Donbass, which was invaded by Ukraine in 1917. Putin stated he would invade (or "take back", who cares at this point) just those territories, so doesn't that make him the good guy here? Of course I don't believe he is, or Zelensky is, there are no good guys anywhere in this story.
You're still arguing for an invasion of a sovereign democratic (although, like most countries not without problems but they're definitely taking some massive steps for a more open society and a more transparent government... DURING A WAR) country. And the need for Russia to push through those documented fake elections for separation while they occupied the territory says everything you need to know about how legitimate this whole invasion is.
Yeah, but then it's not "the will of the people" that matters here, but maybe international law or whatever other principles.
Dude you're not making sense at this point. Like not even to yourself I mean to say.
...then "accidentally" launched an attack on Kyiv, on the other side of the country. "Oops, sowwy 🥺", amirite? 🤦