Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "euronews"
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Just like with protests anywhere, they aren't putting them in jail. They're forcing the bulk to move on. That's why they're using the word detained, not arrested. Arrests are few and far, but that also makes Russia seem more relatable/reasonable so they can't have that.
4000 people involved in a protest in Russia is 0.002% of population. For context, police in yankville detained 4x as many people during the 2020 BLM riots.
What Russia have asked for is quite reasonable and has popular support. They have asked NATO to halt advancement towards their border and rule out (in writing) that Ukraine will join NATO in the next 30 years. For context, Ukraine joining NATO would put NATO bases, soldiers, missiles, etc on Russia's border. It's the equivalent of the bay of pigs. Russia's other demand is for Ukraine to stop murdering their own civilians in the Donbas, which they have been doing openly for the last 8 years and every major news agency on the planet (including this one) has covered in detail. I dunno about you but don't put NATO military assets in our backyard and don't murder civilians because you want the oil/gas under their towns seem like pretty straightforward demands to me.
Ukraine has refused to abide. Yankville led NATO has refused to abide. Indeed both Ukraine and Yankville did everything in their power to escalate, and Ukraine is endlessly pushing propaganda. Al Jazeera has an incredibly brave journalist covering what's happening in Ukraine and very frequently he will report what Zelenskyy is saying then contradict him by pointing out (often accompanied by video evidence) that the journalist and his camera person were just at that location and found no evidence of what Zelenskyy is saying.
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@ravenmoon5111 Firstly, the 100K troops on the border only occurred last year. They are in addition to the troops already fighting in the Donbas and came under direct presidential order.
The Russian troops are standing on the opposite side of the border to the Ukrainian troops and arrived after the Ukrainian troops did.
If it looks like a duck and smells like a duck and quacks like a duck, there's a good chance it's a duck. Similarly if it looks like defensive posturing from Russia, and they're saying very straightforwardly that it's defensive posturing from Russia, and there is cause for them to be defensive, then they're probably engaging in defensive posturing.
Secondly, the Donbas voted to leave after the 2014 coup. They don't want to be part of a Ukraine run by a criminal gang from Kiev. Pretending otherwise is false, misleading and intellectually dishonest. Thousands of men, women and children in the Donbas region has DIED fighting for their right to self destination.
The contested area is officially part of the Russian Federation, attacking it is indeed attacking Russia. Ukraine invading it is indeed invading Russia.
What Russia is clearly worried about is Ukraine trying to take the Donbas by force. The people of the region don't want to be part* of Ukraine, let them be who they want to be
For Zelenskyy and Biden this is all about oil and gas, nothing more. They don't care about human rights. They don't care about how many people lose their lives. They don't care about the suffering it may cause. They want to fill their own pockets.
Edit: Fixed a typo
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