• bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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    22 hours ago

    I mean, to be fair, the EU is pretty morally consistent about supporting a rainbow coalition of racists from Crimea and their lebensraum, whether they are Azovites in Ukraine or Ashkenazis in Israel.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        1 day ago

        I wouldn’t consider Ukraine to directly be imperialist, just a dog of imperialism. They are trying to subjugate the Donbass region, but that’s not really imperialism outright as far as I know.

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          1 day ago

          Yeah i could get that, like ukraine’s role in expanding nato but like you said Ukrainian imperialism doesnt really fit. More like aiding american imperialism at the most.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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            23 hours ago

            Long story short, in 2014 a Banderite faction coup’d Yanukovych, who the Donbass region largely supported:

            After the coup, much of the Donbass region seceded, forming the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. They’ve been at war with Kiev for over a decade, and requested millitary aid from the Russian Federation in 2022, leading to the current stage of the war.