Ukraine expands martial law to boost defences near occupied areas
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Kyiv notified the Council of Europe of changes to its martial law, in effect since February 2022. #EuropeNews

The western values Ukraine is defending are becoming more apparent by the day.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
    423·
    7 months ago

    However, that completely loses the nuance that Ukraine is not the aggressor in this “senseless war”.

    Weird, last I checked Ukraine was involved in a war against Donbas since 2014 as even western media reported at the time.

    Ukraine did not violate it’s citizen’s sovereignty, RUSSIA DID by initiating the war of annexation against the sovereign government of Ukraine.

    And if people of Ukraine wanted to defend the state then they would be voluntarily fighting to do so.

    By violating the sovereignty of the government, Russia thus violated the sovereignty of every citizen under that government. None of this would have been necessary had the initial aggression not been committed.

    None of that has anything to do with the western sponsored regime in Ukraine forcing people to fight Russia for western interests.

    So, now extend your argument: Let’s go ahead and accuse Ukraine of violating human rights with this expansion of power. You must also do so for Russia, who backed Ukraine into this corner in the first place, and who is also committing infinitely worse violations against the civilian territory they have thus far annexed. Are you willing to do that? Because so far, you haven’t.

    The premise the west peddles is that Ukraine is defending western values against Russia which is already presumed to be bad. However, if it turns out that Ukraine is doing the same things you claim are bad when Russia is doing, then what values is Ukraine defending exactly?

    Turns out this conflict isn’t about values it all, it’s about whose sphere of influence Ukraine is going to be under.

    You seem to be echoing a large number of Russian propaganda points trying to paint Ukraine as some fascist shithole, and not the independent nation being overrun by a expansionist dictatorship that it is. This argument is not in good faith.

    Meanwhile, you’re making an incoherent argument that doesn’t make a lick of sense trying to defend literal fascism in Ukraine.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
        301·
        7 months ago

        I love how you just straw man when being called out on your bullshit and then try to take the high ground. A real class act.

      • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        28·
        7 months ago

        LOL. What a ridiculous take. “Alliances”. You don’t have national alliances, neither do any of us, because we’re people. We have opinions. And the opinions of most of the left globally is that the USA is the greatest scourge of humanity and Russia is in a fight for its existence against an American proxy in the form of Ukraine.

        It’s also such a thought terminator when you libs assume the only way people could arrive at this opinion is if you’re paid to do it, as opposed to libs who clearly are free thinkers and don’t get paid for their ideas they just arrive at them fully independently even though it completely aligns with US propaganda efforts, official State Dept narratives, and the clear oligarch-run news media consensus. You could never be paid to have your ideas, but your opponents? Of course they have nothing worthy of arguing because they are paid shills regurgitating from a script.

    • xionzui@sh.itjust.works
      718·
      7 months ago

      Weird, last I checked Ukraine was involved in a war against Donbas since 2014 as even western media reported at the time.

      It’s almost like Russia has expressed its desire to annex Ukraine for over a decade now and has been sending disguised military units to create a “resistance” to fabricate a justification for “liberating” parts of Ukraine into Russian territory. Weird… It’s not like they explicitly gave that as one of the 20 conflicting reasons for this invasion or anything