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[-] m532@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

This totally makes sense if we consider the fact that many westerners don't consider nonwesterners to be people.

Colonizers can't choose the presidents of sovereign nations anymore, the people there do the choosing now, and that makes the colonizers furious.

[-] zephiriz@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 months ago

I'm confused by the comment? Putin is trying to colonize Ukraine. Putin mad because they had a free election to elect the person who is holding his own against an ageing wana be world power in a war going on for years that was supposed to be over in days. Also Putin rig's his own elections so him demanding is bit well, fix your own shit before you fix someone else. Oh wait Putin does fix his own elections.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago

The Russian Federation is not trying to colonize Ukraine. Their goal is NATO neutrality, and annexation of the four oblasts, which are largely pro-Russian. This is a response to the ethnic repressions against Russians in the Donbass following the coup of Yanukovych in 2014, and the ensuing secession of Donetsk and Luhansk and the civil war that followed.

The war was never supposed to be over in days. This was circulated as a means to humiliate Russia, but all talks of an attack lasting days either came from many years before 2022, or from the west.

As for Putin rigging elections, this might be true, but we also know that he is legitimately popular in Russia. The nationalists are most popular, followed by the communists. The pro-western liberals like Navalny was are in the minority and have no real support base.

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