Russia is my enemy.
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Am Russian. Russia is my enemy...
.. as well as US, Israel, Iran, and any other government currently commiting crimes against humanity.
You, personally, are not my enemy... unless you are a nazi then fuck you too. But, hopefully, you are not, and I am not your enemy either.
Do you know why these are called "Molotov's cocktails"?
The name's origin came from the propaganda Molotov produced during the Winter War, mainly his declaration on Soviet state radio that incendiary bombing missions over Finland were actually "airborne humanitarian food deliveries" for their "starving" neighbours. As a result, the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet incendiary cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" (Finnish: Molotovin leipäkori) in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack and destroy Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with his food parcels".
Molotovin leipäkori
TIL
May their renewed humanitarian efforts be greeted with the same level of cynicism!
They're right. Russia is not my enemy. The Russian mafia regime is. Putler is. The oligarchs are. Once their idiotic dictatorship is switched for a stable democratic rule of law, paying reparations to Ukraine and Georgia and then some, Russia will be a candidate for EU membership and eligible to be our friend.
Russian mafia regime is Russia. Both its genocidal conquest policies and the tradition of subservience to a central authority predate the word “россия” and are consistent across governments and states.
The idea that wars of conquest and genocide Russia throws itself in since before we formulated the definition of a word „genocide” are somehow not about Russia would be the winner of every mental gymnastics competition for years to come.
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The people are so brainwashed they need a couple of generations before anything can change IMO.
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The Russia of today is my enemy.
Until the likes of Putin are dead and democracy has been established, I assume that Russia is not a good thing. Here's hoping that Ukraine can conquer or shatter Russia, so that it can be reformed into something that doesn't suck.
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Russia is not my enemy.
The Russian government is my enemy.
(The US government is also my enemy.)
But you repeat yourself.
/s, although Putin has some kind of weird extra influence.
Again: cheaper than tanks and rockets and feeding your people. Hybrid War is real.
To quote a military yutuber I watch now and then: WW3 started in 2014. It's just that the kinetic element has been limited to Ukraine.
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Can we not just silent ban Russia from the entire Internet? Let them think they're posting shit but no one outside their region can actually see it!? (/s... but also not)
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I might get downvoted for this, as I know the emotions are strong in this topic, but I'll try and voice my humble opinion once again:
The Russian PEOPLE are not my enemy, KREMLIN is! And I don't need stickers to tell me this. There are plenty of reports coming from independent journalists all over of not only the horrors that Kremlin motivates soldiers to commit in Ukraine, but what Kremlin is doing even towards civilians inside Russia! There's a reason for the mass emigration and protests across Russia when this conflict first broke out, and that is that most of the people do not want unnecessary conflict. The Russian people suffer more and more, and also want this to end.
As long as Kremlin and its supporters are allowed to abuse their power however, the suffering will continue, so no mercy for them.
I was born in russia, and the current behavior of russia is downstream of the political system that is dominant in russia, which itself is downstream of the russian culture (the sum total of the ideas in people's heads and their interplay). Things got this way because russian people let things get this way. https://vasily.cc/blog/the-russian-template/
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You hear that? That's the sound of lemmy.ml deleting this post from their instance.
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Watch the popular “influencers” and you’ll notice the beginnings of pro-Russia propaganda trickling in on the more gullible and “moderate” channels.
Ive personally seen (and removed) these in some places in Italy.
Can the EU also start lauching propaganda: The EU is not your enemy. Make posters of how it was before and after the EU. Make a campaign with The US, Russia and China being the enemies and how only a united EU can be strong enough to stay relevant in modern geopolitics?
The countries that escaped the clutches of Russian rule need no reminding. They know what a shitty failed state it was and is.
In my country, the part that escaped the clutches of Russian rule absolutely needs reminding, unfortunately.
Paradoxically, it is there where Russia is still heavily romanticised.
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Ah there's your problem, the news always forgets to translate Kremlinese. The stickers all say "Russia is my enemy". Easy mistake to make, no harm done.
Sounds like something an enemy would say.
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