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Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by yucky on Friday September 16, 2022 @01:32PM (#32869378)
>we have issues where one side is the obvious aggressor completely in the wrong, they don't know how to comprehend it.

The fact that so many believe this to be 100% the case, actually makes the point of the OP. We should be able to condemn Russia and still point out that we're lying when we pretend the US didn't get this ball rolling when we funded and fomented a coup in Ukraine in 2014 and installed our puppets.[1][2]

We should also be able to discuss war crimes regardless of the perpetrators.[3] The fact that anybody who points these things out gets called a Russian bot, really just proves the point. Especially considering which side 90% of the bots are on...

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

[2]https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-go...

[3]https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/09/ukraine-must-...

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Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by disgruntledphd2 on Friday September 16, 2022 @02:18PM (#32870015)
Ah now, if the US had formented a coup in 2014 then why didn't the pro Russian people of Ukraine reelect the original people in later elections?

It seems to me at least that the Maida revolution was driven more by anger against corruption and a desire to join the EU than the US involvement (which there definitely was, along with Russian involvement).

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Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by marshray on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:50PM (#32871144)
Because Yanukovych, after he was removed by Parliament, immediately fled to Russia.
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Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by disgruntledphd2 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @02:24AM (#32875230)
Sure, but if it was a coup orchestrated by the US, the next elections would have returned someone similar to power, right?
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Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by yucky on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:21PM (#32892821)
That's not how coups work. Once in power the new regime changed the Constitution. Think of it as "pulling up the ladder" behind them.
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Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by ljfp on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:21PM (#32870789)
Because the candidate was banned and the party dissolved.
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Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots... by morpheos137 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @08:52PM (#32883253)
And nazi paramilitary gangs were burning people alive and shelling cities.

But no Ukraine is pure as fresh fallen snow.

The extent to which westerners have internalised a fact free vitrolic hatred of russia is downright terrifying.

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