• narwhal@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Don’t listen to them. First thing putin asked was “do you want a talk show or a serious conversation?” You don’t need to agree with him but the whole interview was a reasonable and civilized attempt to show the russian perspective to western audiences.

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        9 months ago

        I believe that he believes in what he’s saying. He’s been talking and writing articles about this for years. He’s that out of touch with reality. Remember, he doesn’t even use internet.

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          9 months ago

          What he has to say is that Ukraine should be destroyed and ethnically cleansed. Why on earth would you want to hear more of what he has to say?

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          Putin is the invader if he leaves the war ends. What more do you need to hear from the guy

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          9 months ago

          Nah.

          You don’t need to do that with someone like Putin. You’re basically saying you’re cool just listening to this generations Hitler and taking him at face value.

          That makes you an idiot, a piece of shit, a Russian sympathizer/asset, or likely, all three. But you’re definitely not a person who should be listened to or followed in any way. The entire point of your posting that is to try and create the illusion that Russia isn’t the bad guy here.

          So, and I mean this sincerely, go fuck yourself.

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            9 months ago

            You accuse someone of all sorts of things, and never give them a fair chance to defend themselves through dialog. Tell me again how this is a fair aproach. Sounds like you just want to shut down someone for fear of them being right and you wrong.

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      9 months ago

      Except for the fact that he’s making a lot of shit up, I’m from eastern europe and none of his stories about Poland, Lithuania and Kievan Rus were accurate at all.

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        9 months ago

        Even if they were true, his point is that “we used to own Ukraine so we’re going to kill people until we do again”

        You know, like fascists do.

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        9 months ago

        Also Wonder if he lost a word about the Kievan Rus’ which would give Ukraine a stronger claim on russian territory than what Russia claims for Ukraine belonging to it. Not that you should go there but that whole line of arguing doesn’t even work for itself

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          Of course he did not. That’s why they removed the word Kievan from that term in History textbooks, it’s now just Rus, no Kiev