This is huge! For the first time in over two years, Ukraine has begun taking back their land, resulting in a net territorial gain in February, according to Finnish OSI group Blackbird.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

@randahl This is not coming for free though as expenditures of Europe+US surpass €300 bn and death toll is in the several hundreds of thousands.
This is not a football match

@genziana @randahl

nobody serious thinks it is a football match or even remotely implied that

this is ethnofascist mass murdering imperialism vs a people defending their lives and their lands

we're allowed to rejoice in their successes without being accused of being mere football spectators

@benroyce @randahl No accusations - just reminding that reaching the peace is not a matter of sq. kms but of dialogue

@genziana @randahl

tell the kremlin that, not us

putin and the kremlin have shown time and time and time again that dialog does not work. they are dishonorable. they keep no agreements. they have no intention of meeting peace. for them, dialog is just a tactic to twist to their advantage, and any "peace "is temporary in order for them to rearm, and then attack again on a stupid lie

you are very naive, or straight up lying, about what putin and the kremlin are and what they represent

@benroyce @randahl Yours is a very simplistic view of the events unfolding. It's in your rights to take the parts of Ukraine, however it is undeniable that this war is also a consequence of exploiting the change of leadership in Ukraine to turn it into a US-NATO outpost . Russia escalated the war, but this was not the only cause. EU is intentionally stalling the negotiations by proposing unfeisable terms such as european army presence in Ukraine

@genziana @randahl

😂 😂 😂

vatniks are so fucking easy to sniff out

NATO did not expand east, geopolitics professor

eastern europe ran screaming and pounding on the door to be let in

if you figure out why, what worried them, you might begin to catch a glimmer of honesty apart from your "blame the victim" stupid easy bullshit you push here

bullshit that you fell for as a pathetic moron lapping up hilarious kremlin lies

or that you are pushing here as the putin boot licking loser you are

@benroyce @randahl Wow! Labeling thoughts different than yours as foreign propaganda is not unprecedented.
I'm sorry that you are getting angry - but this will not change the real world. I invite you and who is reading to read more about the history of Eastern Europe from qualified sources and most importantly start reflecting a bit on the mechanisms that cause wars

@genziana @benroyce @randahl

What kind of history of eastern Europe are you hinting at? The history of Russian imperialisms is well known.

It's good that its colonies are increasingly getting their independence; Russia is the last remaining colonial power in Europe that hasn't given up the majority of its colonies yet.

Russia wanting Ukraine back would be like the UK wanting India back, or Spain and Portugal wanting South America back. We should leave the age of colonialism behind us. No major power has an inherent right to control the lands of other people.

@mcv @randahl @benroyce @nicholas @lxo The idea of Russia "wanting back" Ukraine is a diversion. Whether you understand it or not, they are against Nato presence at their footsteps. Popular elections favored pro-russian yet neutralist presidents, who opened up trade agreements with EU - until the uprising at Maidan, at which point the hardline Eu-nato line won prompting Russia to occupy some russian speaking regions of ukraine. One can understand this even while not supporting Russia

@genziana @mcv @randahl @nicholas @lxo

" The idea of Russia "wanting back" Ukraine is a diversion"

sorry i stopped reading here

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WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING DUMB

who do you think buys this shit? do you think we're sitting in ryazan main lining kremlin lies on rossiya-1 all day?

"russia invading ukraine isn't the topic... NATO is!"

again: who do you think buys this moronic, lying stupid shit?