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How fucked is it that NATO's strategy to conquer Ukraine and steal it's land and riches is to create a war, send a half million Ukrainians to die against their own cousins, finance the war, and then demand everything of value Ukraine has left as repayment?

And now that it's looking like there may not be a ukraine to pay the war debt NATO is toying with the idea of taking things nuclear and just ending the world entire instead of capitulating and writing off some paltry amount of debt.

Finance capitalism, kid. Finance capitalism wants your land.

(CW: SA) Cossacks weren't their forefathers though, they were separate people cosidering themsevles nobility (nobody else agreed with that though) and called the local peasants "Blackness" which means "common rabble" (at best). And they were resettled by the Russian Empire to other places, iirc mostly Kuban. Cossack ancestry is only real in the meaning that they r*ped A LOT, but the same was done in Ukraine by Tatars and Poles.

"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."

will it be enough?

Europe is a garden and the rest of the world is a jungle, and the garden must make sure the jungle does not encroach on the garden

-Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief

It's not a matter of 'is racism against brown people enough', it's a matter of when do they come back down to planet earth.

who cares how alienated they are if they follow every beck and call, if they kneel to every wave of their hand

america is in charge, ukraine can do absolutely nothing about that

The US has vassals, not allies. Alienation is acceptable

Ukraine not publishing statistics and hiding the extent of their loss in the war is calculated and was calculated from the beginning this quite literally supported top to bottom by nationalists.

Nationalists have a brain disease. My Ukranian family literally took the party line to the point where they won't talk about the war, when we ask if they're okay and what's happening they give a vague noncommittal answer. They got mad at my parents for helping one of my cousin's wife and children to escape to Germany. They literally refused to talk to us when we saw on LiveMapUa that missiles hit their town and a substation was destroyed.

There's no spin needed. The nationalist among them don't have any other story to tell but the strongest ethnonationalist bullshit, they're the ones in charge and the ones that are prosecuting this war. They have the rest of them captive. That's why they shelled DNR into the ground before the war got hot.

Best believe libs will try anyway

Infant-ry

It's a wooden dummy gun.