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473 day of war. Address video by President Zelensky (English subtitles) (www.youtube.com)

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[–] jorgesumle 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is a proxy war. I don't support the invasion, but I don't want to pay taxes to support a corrupt regime and nazi fanatics like the Azov Batallion, and hardcore nationalists. When I said "they" I meant the Ukrainian army, which was killing their own citizens in Donbass.

[–] soul4rent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the US defense department is salviating at sending supplies to Ukraine and funding an extremely cheap proxy war with Russia.

I agree with you that Ukraine isn't "a perfect country of sunflowers" like a lot of news orgs seemingly claim. The Donbass border situation is a massive shitshow of corruption and incompetence. I don't like my taxes going towards sketchy corrupt regimes either.

Russia isn't blameless either. They still performed their own proxy war with Ukraine by funding seperatist rebels in donbass, and they still invaded a sovereign nation US "global cop" style. I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't critisize Russia for the same type of behavior the US did in Afganistan and Iraq.