Inaction is on the side of injustice. The idea that Ukraine had implemented a ‘social credit’ system is conspiracy nonsense based around a government app trying to make it easier for people to get ahold of their documents.
The reasons for the current support are manifold. The shortest way to tell it is that 2014 annexation of Crimea was a shitshow where the Russians went for ‘plausible’ deniability while Ukraine was in the middle of a revolution, and put great effort into disguising their efforts to support separatists in the east. Now the Russians are quite openly ‘intervening’ in Ukraine, Ukraine is no longer going through a revolution and reorganization of its government, and Russian crimes against humanity are on a scale that dwarfs all participation in the previous ‘frozen conflict’ in the Donbass. tldr; they went bigger this time, and people find it harder to ignore.
Absolutely agree with inaction is on the side of injustice. Thank you for your input, I learned a couple of things I didn’t know about. Was just curious, and hope I didn’t come off as leaning in favor of anything. lol
If I came off as at all hostile, I do apologize. There’s a lot of… disingenuous discourse going around about the war, unfortunately, and it sets me on edge.
We live in weird times.
You might find this article on the Crimean incident interesting, dates to 2014.
If you’re interested in learning more about the history of Ukraine leading up to the current war, this video by Adam Something does a fantastic job summarizing the situation.
Inaction is on the side of injustice. The idea that Ukraine had implemented a ‘social credit’ system is conspiracy nonsense based around a government app trying to make it easier for people to get ahold of their documents.
The reasons for the current support are manifold. The shortest way to tell it is that 2014 annexation of Crimea was a shitshow where the Russians went for ‘plausible’ deniability while Ukraine was in the middle of a revolution, and put great effort into disguising their efforts to support separatists in the east. Now the Russians are quite openly ‘intervening’ in Ukraine, Ukraine is no longer going through a revolution and reorganization of its government, and Russian crimes against humanity are on a scale that dwarfs all participation in the previous ‘frozen conflict’ in the Donbass. tldr; they went bigger this time, and people find it harder to ignore.
Absolutely agree with inaction is on the side of injustice. Thank you for your input, I learned a couple of things I didn’t know about. Was just curious, and hope I didn’t come off as leaning in favor of anything. lol
If I came off as at all hostile, I do apologize. There’s a lot of… disingenuous discourse going around about the war, unfortunately, and it sets me on edge.
We live in weird times.
You might find this article on the Crimean incident interesting, dates to 2014.
No worries, I didn’t take it that way at all. I, really, do appreciate the insight and resource!
If you’re interested in learning more about the history of Ukraine leading up to the current war, this video by Adam Something does a fantastic job summarizing the situation.
Awesome, thank you very much!
No worries - hope you find it interesting!