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Context: Blizzard Entertainment has put in their shop a "charity bundle" for Ukraine. I haven't looked that deeply into it but my thoughts are it's promoted by Mila Kunis (liberal celebrity) and probably funnels money to the corrupt Ukrainian regime.

While helping the Ukrainian people is obviously not wrong, this company also chose to cut off the Russian people from their services, basically pointing a gun at them and telling them they can only have their treats back when they overthrow their government. So if the Russian people are to be held to account for the alleged problems of their government and collectively punished, why not the Ukrainian people? Seems hypocritical and it is predicated on the denial of Nazism and the fascism of the Ukraine regime.

Source: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/sub-cancelled-say-no-to-nzism/1639343 (Almost certainly will be nuked soon)

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[–] darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They did start the war in 2014, Russia just brought it out into the open and punished them. Ukraine was shelling Donbass and other break-away regions (killing civilians), allowing Nazi militias to operate with impunity and Russia claims they were amassing troops for a big push there. They discriminated against Russian speakers, persecuted Russians, indoctrinated their civilians with Nazi ideology and revered fascists. They did not abide by the Minsk Protocols they agreed to and it has been admitted by Angela Merkel that those were a deception from the start to buy time for Ukraine to build a military to challenge Russia. They also moved to join NATO, an offensive fascist organization that invades, destabilizes countries and is explicitly anti-Russian.