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NATO gives Ukraine the go-ahead to cross Putin's red line and striking targets within Russia's borders (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"This is Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine, which is a blatant violation of international law," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

"And according to international law, Ukraine has the right to self-defense. And it also includes strikes against legitimate military targets, Russian military targets outside of Ukraine. That's international law, and of course, Ukraine has the right to do that to defend itself."

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Same of them are for sure but remember that ukrainian government is currently an authoritarian regime that won't let any male between 18 and 60 leave the country, this has been going on for over 2 years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@index that's not what authoritarian means.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Males between 18 and 60 will get arrested and put in prison by authorities if they try to leave the country

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

@index It's a martial law. It sucks, but it just is what it is. Were you also this angry when flights were cut during the pandemic and people were not allowed to leave their house for 14 days when traveling?

Tell me rather how drafting and sending people to the frontline to die for Kremlin in foreign countries if they try to flee Russia is not authoritarianism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s a martial law. It sucks, but it just is what it is.

Yes it is what it is: dictatorship. You can fight for freedom and still allow others to go where they want

Were you also this angry when flights were cut during the pandemic and people were not allowed to leave their house for 14 days when traveling?

Why wouldn't one be angry with it? Were you ok with china locking people inside their houses for months?

Tell me rather how drafting and sending people to the frontline to die for Kremlin in foreign countries if they try to flee Russia is not authoritarianism.

It is indeed authoritarianism now you tell me how russian and ukrainian martial law are different

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@index

Why wouldn't one be angry with it? Were you ok with china locking people inside their houses for months?

I see, other countries were not locking people and were free to pass the disease away

It is indeed authoritarianism now you tell me how russian and ukrainian martial law are different

Just take a look at each country's president, see how many terms each of them has got so far, see whose country attacked whose, and you'll figure out if that martial law is legally imposed due to an actual state of emergency, or if it's only a means to gain absolute power.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Just take a look at each country’s president

They are both corrupted and the ceos of a corrupted country, you can just take a look at wikipedia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@index @petrescatraian
The same regulation was in place under Churchill during WW II. No elections took place. I suppose he was just another despot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

They probably were

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Imperialism_and_racial_views

Russia fought the nazi too during WWII under stalin totalitarism.

Rulers seek power and will use everything they can to get more