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Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death (www.cnn.com)
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive moves into a fourth month, with only modest gains to show so far, Zelensky told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria he rejected suggestions it was time to negotiate peace with the Kremlin.

“When you want to have a compromise or a dialogue with somebody, you cannot do it with a liar,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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[–] tomatopathe@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (100 children)

So from having had a few exchanges with pro Russian accounts on Lemmy (which seems to be infested with a few very active ones) this is a summary of their arguments:

  • "Ukraine is Nazi"
  • "Well far right parties got a total of under 6% of the vote, and they elected a Jewish man president"
  • "yeah but Bandera and whatabout America"
  • "Ukraine killed ethnic Russians"
  • "A huge percentage of their population are ethnic Russians, including in government, and they are fine, and were until the Russian invasion. And now it's Russia that has killed, maimed and raped more ethnic Russians, including civilians, than Ukraine every did or even could. Including their own people thorough incompetence and corruption".
  • "Yeah but Bandera, and whatabout America"
  • "Ukraine is fighting because they are forced to by their colonial masters, the USA and NATO, and Ukrainians will keep dying so long as they keep being armed"
  • "Actually > 90% of the population wants to continue fighting for their country back, so what you're basically saying is you think Ukrainians should be abandoned to Russian enslavement"
  • "Yeah but Bandera, and whatabout America"
  • "NATO and USA are colonialists and this is just more colonialism"
  • "Actually both Russia and China are actual, bone fide land empires, with ethnic minorities that are forced to live like colonized people - including doing the fighting for Russia while their families back home live in misery and squalor and Putin's Mafia collect mansions, private jets and yachts"
  • "Yeah but Bandera, and whatabout America"
[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It was an invasion. Invasions are wrong. That should be the beginning and end of the debate.

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[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I take it you had to deal with the Hexbears? Idiots.

[–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they're on other instances as well

edit: having to go through posts like these and blocking all the invader apologists isn't fun, but it beats accidentally reading their drivel again

[–] tomatopathe@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Such a worthless use of brain cells. Imagine being the product of billions of years of evolution and becoming that.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure some are on a payroll. You don't get a weird narrative like that started without planting a seed.

It's not a coincidence they look like a better version of 2015 the_donald.

They even mocked me when I said I expected to get banned for saying that... and then banned me. Weird how that works.

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

oh god the russia bot reddit npc dialogue script has leaked onto lemmy nooo

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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Well far right parties got a total of under 6% of the vote, and they elected a Jewish man president”

6%, damn, that sounds serious. Let's check how many seats the nationalist party in Russia got. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Russia

72.22%. Okay then.

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