Patently false. There are many, many who earned their infamy. All those involved in the kidnapping of children, the rapists, those firing on civilians, and all the leadership encouraging all these reprehensible acts to name a few.
@YeetPics@LaFinlandia Disagree totally. He’s the #1 cause, yes, but he is not the only one. He could not do this without help, and he’s had plenty. He’s enlisted people from Bulgaria, Turkey, and other countries who specialize in atrocities and torture. He’s allowed violent criminals out of prisons to go to war. He has help. They need to pay for their crimes, too. #WarCrimes#PutinWarCriminal#RussiaUkraineWar#RussianInvasion
Is it equally as valid to hate Chinese people because of the atrocities that occurred under Xi?
Something tells me that hating an ethnic group because their government leadership feeds them half truths is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Then again half the political discussions I’ve seen on Lemmy end with calling to nuke entire hemispheres of the planet, maybe this level of nuance doesn’t fit here lmao.
That’s like saying only Hitler was bad in Nazi Germany. And before the whole “NoT EvErY RuSsIaN” argument comes up: silence is compliance!
The Russians who are truly against what their country is doing already left in 2022, before the mobilization. Everyone else who is not actively fighting their regime is complicit.
You can’t expect every single person that didn’t left Russia to want ukrainians to be murdered and tortured. People there are poor, their entire life is there, their country makes everything to prevent them from escaping and other countries are wary in their regard. You can’t make it that simple
The only Russian who’s really earned the hatred is Putin, I’m not surprised his sycophants are feeling pressured.
Hexbear and .ml seem equally as dismayed, constantly lashing out with violent rhetoric.
Patently false. There are many, many who earned their infamy. All those involved in the kidnapping of children, the rapists, those firing on civilians, and all the leadership encouraging all these reprehensible acts to name a few.
@YeetPics @LaFinlandia Disagree totally. He’s the #1 cause, yes, but he is not the only one. He could not do this without help, and he’s had plenty. He’s enlisted people from Bulgaria, Turkey, and other countries who specialize in atrocities and torture. He’s allowed violent criminals out of prisons to go to war. He has help. They need to pay for their crimes, too. #WarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #RussiaUkraineWar #RussianInvasion
Is it equally as valid to hate Chinese people because of the atrocities that occurred under Xi?
Something tells me that hating an ethnic group because their government leadership feeds them half truths is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Then again half the political discussions I’ve seen on Lemmy end with calling to nuke entire hemispheres of the planet, maybe this level of nuance doesn’t fit here lmao.
That’s like saying only Hitler was bad in Nazi Germany. And before the whole “NoT EvErY RuSsIaN” argument comes up: silence is compliance! The Russians who are truly against what their country is doing already left in 2022, before the mobilization. Everyone else who is not actively fighting their regime is complicit.
There’s a middle point between “the dictator is the only bad guy” and “literally every person on a country the size of a continent is the bad guy”
Yes, see my last sentence.
You can’t expect every single person that didn’t left Russia to want ukrainians to be murdered and tortured. People there are poor, their entire life is there, their country makes everything to prevent them from escaping and other countries are wary in their regard. You can’t make it that simple
Yes, I very much can, because I know what it means if we are compliant with genocidal war mongering terror regimes and where that leads to.