#Zelenskyy vs Putin

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The difference between Ukraine and Russia in one picture.

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So my initial thoughts on the whole David & Polly vs Roger Waters development was wow they finally snapped and good for them and I'll admit I had just woken up when I saw the tweet but now after researching the probable causes as to what could have caused such an openly aggressive action on Polly & David's part and there are two;

one is Roger's recent interview regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The interview was originally in German but has been translated to English and I'm sure most other languages by now but Roger pretty much doubles down on pretty much the bullshit rhetoric that's been spewing regarding Ukraine for the past year, everyone is brainwashed if they think Putin is the aggressor, Ukraine was always part of Russia/USSR (despite the fact it has it's own language it's own rich history that stretches back to the 9th century AD and before, not to mention Russia only annexed Ukraine in 1793 under Catherine The Great, it hasn't always been a part of Russia, Roger is factually incorrect on that part). Roger says the reason behind the invasion is that there are Nazis there, well there are Nazis in the United States, yet nobody is gearing up to invade the US.

A little background info Roger is very much in the camp of 'give Putin what he wants because he's actually a great leader and the west has him completely misunderstood'. It's bullshit Putin isn't misunderstood he's a genocidal megalomaniac,

some of the things he's done includes

mansplaining Russia's invasion of Ukraine to Olena Zelenska First Lady of Ukraine , wife of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine among other incidents.

Berliner Zeitung interview - Roger Waters

While you read the interview keep in mind that David & Polly's daughter in law who is married to their son Charlie is Ukrainian, and their grandchildren are half-Ukrainian, their grandmother (Charlie's mother-in-law) has been displaced due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine this is very much personal for them

I'm getting thought block now so I'll add the second probable cause later on.

[schizofujoshi]

the average redditor's appetite for bloodshed is truly disgusting. much more twisted than would otherwise seem. they speak about the russia-ukraine war like it's a battle of great men, of zelenskyy vs putin, and they act that way, they attribute actions towards russia as actions towards putin and, in the inverse, attribute attitudes towards zelenskyy as towards ukraine.

there's no curiosity or time for the historical and material circumstances of the conflict. soldiers are only people to recognise when they die tragically or kill epically. ukranian citizens are only people if their tragedies can be propagandised. russian citizens exist to the west as people who must prove themselves and still regardless bare the weight of the world's (west's) punishment.

who cares if sanctions starve a poverty-stricken neighbourhood basically abandoned by the state? and make no mistake, they don't care for ukrainian refugees. they care about them existing because it's another justification for more fighting, more death, more entertainment, but when they arrive at our borders? they may as well not exist.

they don't care. they're projecting the volksgeists of these respective nations onto their leaders and they're having fun watching them fight in tight spandex and capes. so many people die, have their lives torn apart, lose important things and people to them, have their dreams and futures snatched away. and, in my genuine opinion, when they see these people, they see extras.

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What if president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and president Vladimir Putin are working together. He being a secret russian spy. Why do they have the same name? And why are both their terms « extended »? Is it a play on the good angel vs. The bad angel? Which one is which? The one offering peace terms or the one asking for more money for more war?

So far at work. The Indians are my favourite.

Time travel and the speed of light? If one moved faster than light ine could travel back in time. Except time is infinitely measured. Even at the speed of light time can be measured smaller. Time doesnt cease movement. Neither the reversal of time if movement was faster than light. At most time would at one point cease to move for the limitations of perception. A second may always be reduced to a smaller fraction.

If experienced was to be measured according to aset structure that never failed adherence then time travel would be possible according to a set bypassing personal memory. Though this is only at a conscious level. If technology whee to enable a downloading of consciouness that the physical travel back in time would depend on the implementation of the reception of that conscious state into a new body. So one could only go back to far as the dawn of that age defined by that technology. This is an interesting conjectural observation. For the the future consciouness would then be able to return to any point on or passed that age and modify that present tense leading to a modified nee reality future.

The chances of this are rather limited outside an undeviating A.I. And that dawn marked new age would be in a constant flow of flux. Where it would have to hold all knowledge of the future up to a point. And evolution forward would depend on the state of the present technology slowly inching forward against to constant returns from the future. Where a reboot system would then erase that present tense of time for the implementation of future knowledge coming back correcting the future. Or a secondary system would become the primary point of the age. Time wouldn’t stop but its measurement would effectively be faster than the ability to measure light itself and the universe for all intent and purposes would cease to move, or atleast have the perception thta it didn’t outside the frame of mind of a person.

Best to stay away from the war in europe and all the dumb shit about it. I picked a side. Don’t care about the details. Nothing in life is real anyway. My entire world is a machination. I dint get to have a say in life. Never did. Never will. Lif eis onesided agaisnt you and it always was. All that is now is because of them and what they create. And im just the poor sloe caught inbetween of their stupid degenerate bs. I wont shed a tear if the entire americas burn. Along with everyone ive ever met. For strangling all the best parts of me and feeding the worst. All i can say for a certainty is that god is agaisnt them. But that matters very little in hell.

And i hope this disease goes away. Incant function. Allmprogress gets halted. All focus goes away. Inhope the world butns. And incan dies soon. They stolenmy second vhande ofmlife. With more perversion amd violence and chaos

Yay nothing but hard pluto saturn and uranus apsects. While living a mock reality. All personal uplifting aspects dont matter. Fuck astrological. All there is are outter planters. No personals. No growth. Just torture. Its all o know. Outside influenves fucking everything up always beleive they are in the right. Even though their morons. Pluto swaure uranus. Uranus conjucntion mars, uranus opposite saturn, and pluto swuare plotu. After uranus conjucnt sun. pluto squared sun, neptune conjucnt moon. And unranus conjucnt NN. While being jnjected with poison bombarded by abusive degenerates. Beaten by my family and spochogically raped and sexually abused. While watching everyone arounf me give me those perverted sick concksuckees crooked smile of withheld information. And then its what uranus opposite uranus?! What?! Midlife crisis. Pls. My ebtire life has been a crisis. Ill probably just kill

Myself like ive been withholdinng these last 26 uears. Gor to take the full blint of the trauma since im only allowed being by myself while being manipulated hybteh entire fucken planet to degenewrte ever further.

Also by 2036 the end of putins term and the change of degree from julian the 7th of january to the 8th. Is a nuptune sun cinjunction. This whole fucken war is a fake reality ti fuck with me. Also on that date is a plutonmars square. Yeah. I was born foe the sole purpose of being abused. Putin retires and i probably soend that last few years in a hospital beign abused by nurses.

Why dont they donthe american thing and assassinate the presidents. One president frees the slaves and get shot. Another president tried to create a communism without money and he was shot. Another guy invented the amart ohone collectivizing rhe entire planet in the same technology and he mysteriously dies. Russia tries and free itself from liberal totalitarians and he gets half the world sissy slapping each other?….. the worlds going to end ip being a communism anyway. Under a supreme intelligence of an A.I.

I no longer have repentence or shame on anythignnive ever done. Y’all’v taken that feom me too.

So lets see whats next in their book of satanic bs and raping my life reality. Ive only been watch for the last 20 years. Going through all the motions. Even having my family give me those same perverted degenerate smiles. Listenign to constant dialogue around of stupid degenerate bs. Coming up to me a rubbing it in every chance there is. 39 years of this shit. It nevera ends in hell. Where eveyon ewants to rule. Apparently. Playing a nice dmfacade to everyone and supporting them whenever it comes to it while knowing the fucken of my life by them at the same time. Locking me into this bs script. Waiting to see what ever is next. The next stage in the plan. 39 fucken years. Of neglect to my person and being beaten on by the entire world around me at all times. The friendlier influemces promoting degenerating experimeces. Form my first memory to now. Wich i knew about the magic behind cliud shaping and all that. But, thats not for me i guess. The only true compassion is from nature. I want to see the world burn. And it can start over again drom scratch. Like a forest or a “civilization”. While this disease plagues my body and mind. And the olague of humanity suckin gof the devil.

Maybe i could contact russia and ask for refuge. But, considering ym entire reality is machinated. They would never allow.

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Oh I just saw such a collection of bad takes on the Russia-Ukraine war.

"It's a proxy for NATO vs Russia" obviously NATO will opportunistically move to its own interests, but also no NATO does not mean the USA and does not represent the USA's interests the way "NATO imperialism" always suggests (as when Putin says "the West" yenno), and also in this case NATO did not start shit, only Putin started shit on a non-NATO country so it takes some creative thinking to place NATO as an actual source of the conflict.

"Ukrainian nazis" come the fuck on. If you can understand that Putin has to rely on Wagner surely you can understand that Zelenskyy has to rely on already-formed and already-armed groups that would turn on him at a time he can't afford it? That's not tacit acceptance of nazism by Ukraine or NATO, that's the reality of "an armed battalion occupies this territory and they can hold on to it for me against the invader or shoot at me too". Stop falling for Putin's own propaganda for like, five minutes. No NATO is not "the good guys", but also no there's no "we'll side with nazis!!!!1!!" going on. It's just the fucking reality of war.

"it is the duty of every communist to block production that allows this war to continue" is the worst one yet, because if one side is paralysed everything stops plus or minus Putin and a few military leaders being taken out and/or tried for war crimes, but if the "other side" (supposing it's only NATO-led, which, lol, Ukraine is a real country remember?) is paralysed Ukraine gets destroyed, there's more fun stuff like ethnic cleansing and concentration camps because that's Putin's MO... and there is literally no way that both sides get paralysed (hint: the one most likely to suffer from efforts at sabotage by communists is not the one that wants to quite literally annihilate the neighbouring country)

And finally "the real victims are the working class" I think it's the dead people regardless of class actually. You are not more dead because you were working-class when they come to bomb your town

Yes it is important to call out the world powers that do wrong, yes it will remain important to pay attention to the glaring evils of capitalism and liberalism, but fuck it the moral position is not "point at everything that's bad as if it's equally bad". Some stuff is bad but has to be tolerated. Some stuff is worse than other stuff.

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Like many people around the world, I've watched the events unfolding in Ukraine during the last few months with horror, sadness, anger and confusion. I knew little about Russia and even less about Ukraine and didn't understand what was happening or why.

When I turned to the news to try to make sense of the situation, I found harrowing stories of war crimes and simple black and white narratives with little context given: a war of good and evil, of tyranny and brutality vs freedom and democracy.

But on social media I was faced with polarizing and strident views that seemed to be coming from parallel universes:

Ukraine is either infested with neo-Nazis, or any mention of far right extremists is nothing but deranged Kremlin propaganda;

Zelenskyy is either one of the greatest heroes of our time, or a dangerously inexperienced and reckless fool whose poor decisions have led Ukraine to ruin, or a sociopathic war criminal, or a hapless puppet;

Putin is either the second coming of Hitler, an evil madman leading a genocidal war to expand Russian territory, or a rational actor who has showed restraint in the face of repeated provocation and existential threat;

Ukraine has either been persecuting and killing ethnic Russians in Donbas for years, or all reports of such are just hateful anti-Ukraine propaganda.

The West are either to blame for interfering and provoking Russia, or for not doing enough to help Ukraine.

So which is it?

This blog is part of my attempt to understand the context and consequences of this conflict, as well as the information war raging around it. Posts may be few and far between. This is mainly a place to follow other people's blogs and gather and evaluate information.

This blog is NOT pro-Russian, anti-Russian, pro-Ukrainian, or anti-Ukrainian. It is pro-truth, pro-peace, pro-human rights. I believe those who commit war crimes should be held accountable, no matter which side they're on. I believe all victims deserve to be heard. I believe irresponsible news media and disinformation hurts us all.

I welcome comments and corrections, especially from those affected by the conflict.

[qqueenofhades]

I apologize if anyone else has also complained about this to you but the media hypocrisy re: this war happening in Ukraine vs it happening every day in Middle Eastern countries that are spurred by both the US and various EU countries + Russia is only further adding to the anger that I feel. It's all sf disgusting and US/UK reporters being so blatant about it with the "this isn't some third-world country, it's a MODERN environment" is also hilarious once you consider how even Eastern European countries aren't exempt from this framing only when it suits Western countries. Like oh ok, so when Balkan countries wage war against each other we're "barbarians who started WW1 and needed the brave British soldiers to save us from the evil Ottoman Empire", but when Russia is the main aggressor then we are suddenly 'modern', got ya. I feel for everyone who has to see this hypocrisy take place rn while the US/Russia hasn't stopped their pillaging of Middle Eastern countries.

YEP. God, this exactly. It was pretty stunning to see the contrast -- Poland urging Ukrainian refugees to come in their thousands, without COVID vaccine documentation or even passports, as compared to their response when Belarus shipped in all those Middle Eastern refugees in an attempt to force an EU border crisis (which happened like TWO MONTHS AGO, since this year has already lasted a thousand eons). In which case, they closed the border, militarized 15,000 soldiers, put up barbed wire, and did everything to avoid letting any of those refugees in, even though their circumstances were, objectively, exactly the same. It's not that the Ukrainian refugees don't deserve it, because obviously they do. It's just that those Middle Eastern refugees deserved it just as much, and there is no question that this is getting so much attention because it is happening in mainland Europe, against white and (largely) Christian Europeans. (Although Ukraine's significant Jewish population and the fact that President Zelenskyy himself is Jewish should not be forgotten.)

Also, obviously, the attention comes because 1) Russia has nukes and Putin wants everyone to remember that fact, 2) this pits the entire twentieth-century world order of "the West vs. the Soviets" against each other yet again, and 3) the real history of the Cold War was about the rest of the world caught in the ideological and imperial crossfire. There were never any actual battles on American or Russian territory, but as those two empires tried to out-dominate and crush the other, we had countless proxy wars and conflicts. Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, Cuba, Afghanistan and the Middle East, etc etc., and we are still reaping the fruits of that poisonous whirlwind. As I have also said many times, I am dumbfounded by all the references to the "worst war in Europe since 1945," when the Balkan wars are RIGHT THERE. Except once the basic wrangling for independence was done with, that was a premeditated genocide carried out by Serb Orthodox Christian nationalists against the Bosniak Muslims, the West pretty much sat on their hands and watched it happen, and they don't want anyone to remember that. The siege of Sarajevo lasted over two years. They didn't even technically END until Kosovo obtained its (contested) independence in 2008, which was then not regularized in the Brussels Agreement until 2013. If we're acting like this conflict, which thus far has not lasted even a week, is the worst breach in the entire post-WWII security order, I have questions.

There is absolutely no question that this is the ultimate result of the toxic stew of imperialism, racism, ethnic and religious bigotry, fascist nationalism, and all the ugly ways that humans have found to divide and discriminate against each other over the centuries, and to hurt each other in the name of superior ideology. In an earlier post, I warned about "whataboutism" -- i.e. if your first response to the current Russia/Ukraine conflict is to point out all the bad things the West has done and try to excuse Putin as a result, that's neither constructive nor helpful, and plays into his toxic propaganda about Russia just being a helpless puppet instead of the (former) other half of the global-nuclear-hyperpower dichotomy that dominated the entire post-WWII world. However, I have been equally clear that the West's own comprehensive policy failures have played a role, especially in its (wrong) belief that capitalism "won" the Cold War and needed to be imposed on the world even more aggressively as a result, and at any cost. We're seeing how Western liberal democracies have increasingly backslid into corrupt, neo-fascist, oligarchic authoritarianism, even as they're calling out Russia for that exact thing. The political situations aren't exactly comparable, but they've been heading that way, and if the West wants to actually make an effective long-term response and be viewed as anything close to the moral exemplar, they have so much work to do at home. Which I am... skeptical of their ability to do, not least because the alternative is so profitable.

Currently, the American right wing is divided over whether to condemn Putin in line with the Republican party's old policy of The Soviet Union is the Evil Empire, or just go full masks-off fascist and follow Trump down the path of celebrating an unhinged madman with nukes, because they feel that Good Ol' Vlad is the "defender" of "traditional white Christian values," which tells you everything that you need to know about how insanely horrifying they have gotten. (Iirc, that's exactly the same thing that people said about Hitler.) They admire Putin because they openly hanker to impose that same repressive model against an increasingly diverse America, and because they wish they could get away with just destroying their opposition in the way Putin does. As I said, if nothing else, let's hope this actually leads to an honest reckoning about how much we've fucked up the entire twenty-first century, the poisonous narratives that we're still swallowing wholesale, and the utter lie that strongman authoritarianism and its associated violence can ever bring any kind of lasting or peaceful global paradigm. The West (especially GOP/Government of Putin America) has been fighting kicking and screaming against being forced to examine its own past honestly, and that is only adding to the myopia of its response.

Sigh. This is heavy stuff. I am going to attempt to take at least a minor break from doomscrolling and do something else for a bit. As I likewise said before, this is legitimately very bad and frightening, but we still need to avoid catastrophizing and spreading panic and making everything worse ahead of time, because right now, we're still all right, and we're still here. If nothing else, we've been prepared for a long time to ask the question of how to face the hardest times and what we would do when it looks so very, very dark. So yes.

Much love to all.