kookaburra

Just a friendly reminder that in the real world, the country that cancelled its presidential elections this year and is conducting forced mobilization is Ukraine. In Russia, the presidential elections were held six months ago and the forced mobilization ended two years ago.

Are you from Belarus or know anyone in real life that lives there?

I know half dozen and most of them would say that you're spreading BS propaganda (with fair exception of one my former coleague who have taken all Tikhanovskaya stuff so close to his heart so he is in immigration now).

That is rich since imperialist Russia is the one who is occupying parts of Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine.

Are you from Moldova or know anyone in real life that lives there? Because i know 3 Moldovans in real life and none of them have anything against indepdependence of Transnistria and none of them is somehow excited with Sandu's warmongering or have any wish to take part in war effort to recapture Transnistria.

Are you from Donbass or know anyone in real life that lives there? Because i know A LOT of people from there and have been there A LOT of times (as Donetsk is my father's hometown). And all of those people would say that you're spreading BS propaganda.

Are you from Abkazia or know anyone in real life that lives there? Because i've been there once and i can bet that you haven't. As if you'll tell Abkhazian that his country is somehow part of Georgia occupied by Russia, you won't be happy with outcome.

You could easily achive your goal by going back to reddit, there's nothing wrong with it. Seems like federated international community hosted by enthusiasts is just not your cup of tea. Centralized platform which goes to IPO would be able to provide you with echo chamber that you seek for.

All attempts to whitewash banderite crap always resemble this good old comics.

Belarus: not invading anyone, waging no war, perpetrating no genocide, banned from Olympics

Israel: ...

Neither of those countries have constitutionally protected free speech

Article 29 of Russian constitution and Article 35 of Chinese constitution prove you wrong.

I'm at Russia right now, I've been to Ukraine more than dozen times including twice to Crimea (Ukrainian at time of visit) and numerous times to Donbass (as Donetsk is literally hometown of my father). What's next? Have you ever been to one of the listed places yourself or are you just fantasizing from other side of the world?

Donbas is part of Ukraine.

Donbass was part of sovereign pre-2014 Ukrainian state. The people of Donbass will not bow to the ethno-state insurrectionists who overthrew the constitutional goverment. In any case, it's some kind of karma that American fans of post-Maidan Ukraine would have orange bigot imposed on them before the end of this year.

It means getting their asses out of every part of Ukraine that they’ve been infiltrating, including Crimea too.

Last census held by Ukraine in 2001 has shown that nearly 60% inhabitants of Crimea were Russians. How you can drive them out without ethnic cleansing? Well, it's obvious that it's impossible to be supportive towards current Ukrainian regime without being at least a bit nazi.

Only cool people are capable of doing it

Challenge accepted

What’s the weather like in Moscow?

Thanks for asking, it was around +10 degrees per Celsius this afternoon, which is quite warm for this time of the year. But there is a downside as there's melting snow everywhere.

You know what also would have saved lives, and reduced tensions? Not going to war in the first place, the fact is that Putte was the one to attack and start this whole shitshow means that Russia is in the wrong, not Ukraine.

This profound analysis is a real gem of modern Western thought!

Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporhizhia, Kherson, Crimea

Only abovementioned 5 regions had referendums and therefore fall into "Russia considers part of Russia" category as they are really treated as Russian regions by Russian law. Any other regions of Ukraine are not, at least currently.

His offer for Ukraine is surrender. Ukraine would need to give up the 4 oblasts that Russia considers part of Russia, including their 2nd and 3rd largest cities.

Both 2nd and 3rd largest cities of Ukraine are outside of borders of 5 contested regions.