• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    Russia is engaged in a war with a near peer, Israel is committing an extermination campaign on Palestine using stolen land. I have no love for Putin, reactionary nationalist that he is, but to equate the Russo-Ukrainian war with the genocide of Palestine is to make a mockery of genocide. Further, such a blanket statement erases the plight of the people of the Donbass region, who have been at war with Kiev since 2014 and who want to join the Russian Federation. The Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics have just as much a right to self-determination as Palestinians do.

    Condemn Putin all you want, I have no love for him as I said. Hang him if you will. But don’t undermine the actual plight of the many decades of genocide committed against the Palestinian people to “own the tankies.” You have a history of undermining the plight of Palestinians, this isn’t a new development for you, it’s a repeated pattern.

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      Agreeing makes no assertions as to the relative severity of the genocide (for there is of course always a worse genocide capable of being perpetrated); it simply agrees that both are war criminals who should be prosecuted relative to their stated War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.

      Seeing you devolve into Pro-Kremlin propaganda as any good Vatnik does, I am not surprised in the slightest. Defending traitors of the Donbass like one would the Confederacy of the US Civil War is equally atrocious. I wonder if you could even acknowledge that MH17 was brought down by a Russian BUK.

      So in more ways than one, you revealed your hand in this comment.

      Thus neutral audience take note as this individual is a case-in-point: They could not simply say “Yes.”

      Edit: Fun little scavenger-hunt. Can anyone spot the other subtlety revealing their Russo-bias?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        Ukraine is not being subject to genocide. It is a peer-near peer war. The genocide in Palestine is a mass extermination campaign. To the extent that Putin should be tried for war crimes, so should Zelensky and the government in Kiev, who have had allegations of war crimes independently investigated since 2014 when the Ukrainian Civil War began. Zelensky himself won his presidency in 2019 on the basis of downscaling the war, but instead continued pressing forward.

        As for the struggle of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, equating them to the slavers of the Confederacy is enormously farcical. The people of the DPR and LPR seceded not to commit slavery, but because the president they popularly supported was coup’d by the Bandera-upholding factions in the Euromaidan coup.

        The people of the Donbass speak Russian at higher degrees than most of the rest of Ukraine, and thus the language laws restricting Russian also facilitated the decision to leave. The people of the Donbass have the right to self-determination, just like the people of Palestine. The Confederacy had no such right because they were separating in order to continue slavery, not because they were escaping instability and the suppression of the language they spoke.

        The “neutral audience,” which does not exist as nobody is truly neutral, can see plainly how you undermine the plight of Palestinians and the people of the Donbass region plainly.

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          ^ This is baseless Pro-Kremlin misinformation and revisionist history that attempts to justify the illegal annexation of sovereign Ukrainian land. Genocides can indeed be perpetrated between “peers” (though it’s hilarious that there was once a point Ruzzia didn’t consider them to be a peer, hence the 3 day SMO (LOL!). So here this sadistic genocide-endorser condones the relentless strikes of civilian cities and death of Ukrainian children just the same, all of which could stop if Ruzzia simply left Ukraine’s sovereign land, including Donbas and Crimea.

          Stop simping for dictators.

          Slava Ukraini

          Free Palestine

          See? That easy.