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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My question was: how does the violence of the invasion help the self determination of Ukrainian people?

I'll be more explicit: why not simply acknowledge that the invasion is not only unlawful, but deeply immoral -- and completely contradictory to the self determination of a people?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The self-determination of which Ukrainian people?

  • The oligarchs?
  • The Banderites?
  • The eastern Ukrainians, who, after the Maidan coup, declared independence from the unelected government, and were subsequently terrorized by the Banderites, with tacit and overt support from the Ukrainian and US governments?
  • The men being pulled off the streets and pushed to the front lines against their will?

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I doubt you actually know what real-life Ukrainians actually want, because I suspect your vision of the Ukrainian people may as well be from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And I suspect your conceptualization of self-determination is equally undeveloped.

I think the reason you’re interested in the Ukrainian people’s self-determination is because our governments and corporate media have spend the last two years telling you to care. But not real-life people. These are unrealized, cartoon Ukrainian people, who all coincidentally want exactly the same thing that Zelensky says Ukraine wants. They want you to imagine that the “self-determination” that all these cartoon Ukrainians want is exactly the same thing that the extremely corrupt, undemocratic Ukrainian government wants.

When I say I care about the Ukrainian people’s self-determination, I’m talking about the real-life, flesh-and-blood working class people, not the Ukrainian state.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The reason I am interested in the Ukrainian people is because I am European and volunteer in refugee relief. I am confronted with the human cost of this invasion on a very, very regular basis. The lives of 33 million people have been violently uprooted by the decision of a foreign state, and the only socialist stance to take in that regard is clear condemnation. It is that simple.