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The Ukrainian people have my deepest respect and gratitude for preserving their language under these horrendous conditions. I've been learning Ukrainian for over two years now and it's an immense pleasure and privilege.
There is so much content on Ukrainian YouTube, varied, important, enjoyable. I have literally started doing Pilates in Ukrainian, I follow cooking channels, a channel dedicated to the Great Meadow (flooded by the soviet union to make the Kakhovska reservoir, drained by putin's criminal armed forces last year, currently regrowing a forest and wildlife habitat that has surprised everyone), people who blog about history, language, cinema, culture as well as politics and war. Every time we watch their content (and if we can, make a donation), we are supporting the Ukrainian language and nation. 💙💛
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Let's get this straight: the collective west owes Ukraine, not the other way round. If they'd been taken seriously by our countries, the US, UK and Germany first and foremost, in 2014 or even last year (or, you know, ever) this war would not have started. And it is not "their war", but russia's genocidal war against Ukraine, which should be rightly paid for in large part with russian assets and hopefully will be. But anyone in the US or any other country currently contributing military aid to the Ukrainian war effort, who somehow thinks they're going to "own" Ukraine when this is over, should get that stupid, offensive idea out of their heads right now. Ukrainians are fighting the war our cowardly countries have been beefing up to fight for decades. Turns out we're only good at kicking ass when the other guy is a lot smaller than us.
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I agree with you. I've just come back from a massive pro-Palestine demo in London, which I attended with a Ukraine badge very visible on my bag. But I fully understand that Ukraine can't afford to speak up against Israel, what with so many all over the world still waiting for the slightest sign that could be interpreted as antisemitism, as well as russia's undeniable collusion with Hamas.
I'm just going to keep walking around London with both badges on me, and if that leads to difficult conversations, so be it. So far, I haven't heard a single Ukrainian voice calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and even in their extremely difficult circumstances, many Ukrainians appreciate the complexity of this situation. While it's understandable that in the days immediately following the attacks, Ukrainians would have empathised with Israelis, as news of the genocide keep coming back from Gaza I think that may be changing.
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I'm really glad to see that work is being done now to restore adequate water supply to those areas, which are suffering - at least in large part - because of the destruction of the dam last year. This is not just because I obviously want people to have access to the water they need as soon as possible, but also because this work being done now means that the baby forest growing once again in the Dnipro flood plain - the Great Meadow - will, hopefully, be preserved after occupying forces are kicked out of Ukrainian territory once and for all.
Anyone who hasn't looked into this yet, please do... though I don't know how much has been written about it in English, I've been following Ukrainian sources on this. Actually if the media of any country has been reporting on this, I would love to know. The unexpected regeneration of the Great Meadow, cradle of Cossack culture, flooded decades ago by the soviet union and emptied out again by an unthinkably stupid and brutal act by the latest incarnation of russian imperialism, is the living embodiment of post-traumatic growth.
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@malaficus Yeah, we noticed. Except that russians are human too - if we keep calling them 'orcs', something I do myself sometimes, it's easy to forget that - and for the vast majority of them, motivation is zero. Even the ones who don't care about killing, don't want to die before their time. So this ever-replenishing killing machine that you're describing isn't working all that well. As for China, the possibility of them starting a war by invading Taiwan is real but has been made much less likely by Ukraine's fierce resistance to the russian invasion - while if Ukraine had caved in, that would have come in a matter of a few years.
But the bit of that comment that is most definitely pro-putin propaganda isn't about this, it's "which is why they are desperate for foreign intervention and escalation". It's straight out of the rashist playbook, when nobody buys the "evil Ukrainian nazi" stereotype just recast them as pathetic and useless and not worth investing in. Ukraine is fighting the war that NATO has been bulking up to fight for decades, with a tiny fraction of the resources: there is strength is knowing what you need and asking for it in no uncertain terms. Not to mention making do with what you get even though it's decisively less than what you need.
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@mvs9122 Thanks for contradicting your own points as you make them ☺
Ukraine joining NATO could never have been an existential threat to the rf, BECAUSE the rf has nuclear weapons. Ukraine wanted and wants to join NATO because the rf had proved itself to be an existential threat to Ukraine. The only thing under threat from Ukraine's now inevitable membership of NATO is russian expansionism, and seriously, the rf has the biggest landmass in the world, they should look after it and the people who live there, instead of always be scheming to grab more from other countries.
As for your second point, Ukrainian is a bilingual (in fact multilingual) nation, and russian-speaking Ukrainians are a reality - which is probably why putin has been slaughtering and deporting them in huge numbers, leading to many russian-speaking Ukrainians to switch to Ukrainian as their main language and develop a deep-rooted hatred of everything russian.
As for russia being bigger and stronger, have a look at Michelangelo's David... or read "Puss in Boots"... And yes, the rf will indeed pay any price: it is plumbing the depths of depravity in a way few countries have over the course of human history, and will inevitably fragment in the near future. No one will have to break it up: they are crumbling from within, as a country and as a people. Rot will do that to any edifice.
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Thanks, very concise summary of an achingly complicated topic. Is it from Umberto Eco's definition? (I think it was him)
I think that while every situation will inevitably be different and have its own unique characteristics, and some of the features you listed will be more or less prominent depending on circumstances, it is the combination of some of these features that should be a red flag for fascist tendencies in a society.
Ukraine for example is strongly promoting its language and culture both at home and abroad (understandably, considering they've been fighting against genocide on and off for a long time), however that comes along with a strong drive to change and outgrow many elements of that culture, and make positive connections with others. Weaponry has become incredibly important to Ukrainians, but that's happening at a time that more women than ever before are entering the armed forces and generally becoming prominent in the defense of the country.
Context is also important: from Ukraine's point of view, pacifism is indeed "trafficking with the enemy", but that's because they're defending themselves. And the rf is indeed both strong and weak: they have numbers, and they have nukes, and they are led by insane people following a twisted narrative that they are now unable to walk away from, which means they screw up a lot but are also incredibly dangerous.
Btw I fully appreciate that you're on the side of Ukraine... I just think it's important to make these points because that list could easily be used to prove that Ukraine is a fascist country (sadly, like many from the antiwar movement of 20+ years ago, I know a lot of people who oppose support for Ukraine and they're the most likely to make these arguments, I think).
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@peterj5083 Good point, but false equivalence. Jan 6th was an attempt at overthrowing the results of a free and fair election (as has been proven literally dozens of times, including by some judges appointed by the politician who would have benefited from that coup). The Revolution of Dignity was a spontaneous uprising that took place after the head of state proved he was putin's puppet by his last-minute refusal to sign the agreement he had been promising for years, which would have taken Ukranians a small but crucial step closer to Europe as many of them patently wanted. At that point Ukrainians had enough, they peacefully gathered in the Maidan and just refused to go away. They were brutalised. They stayed, and more people joined them. The police started shooting, and then the molotovs started to fly, and putin's puppet fled.
Presumably it's second, not the first, that we're all thinking of when we say that "russians should stand up to putin".
I'd never needed to put the above into words before and it took a while, so thank you for raising it. If you're interested in the Revolution of Dignity there's a brilliant lecture on YT, part of Timothy Snyder's The Making of Modern Ukraine series but delivered by Marci Shore, a guest lecturer who has researched those events and written a book about it. Just do a search on those terms, it will come up.
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