That's definitely not true. You are the proof of this. While many national outlet are spewing NATO propaganda, others are spewing Kremlin propaganda. I'm hoping we can have more balanced information on lemmy.ml, that accounts for psyops on both sides of the conflict.

Quoting should help here, because Putin’s recent speech tells otherwise.

OK let's dissect Putin's speech together:

I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border. (...) First a bloody military operation was waged against Belgrade. (...) Then came the turn of Iraq, Libya and Syria. (...) in the 1990s and the early 2000s, when the so-called collective West was actively supporting separatism and gangs of mercenaries in southern Russia

Geopolitical concerns between the two big empires (Russia and NATO), nothing about Ukrainian separatists. Though in this part of the speech, Putin presents separatism (in the Caucasus presumably) as morally wrong and dangerous.

they sought to destroy our traditional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degeneration, because they are contrary to human nature.

Being slightly informed about Putin's fight for cis-hetero-patriarchy, this appears to be anti-LGBT propaganda. Nothing to do with ukrainian separatists.

Moreover, these past days NATO leadership has been blunt in its statements that they need to accelerate and step up efforts to bring the alliance’s infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders. (...) The problem is that in territories adjacent to Russia, which I have to note is our historical land, a hostile “anti-Russia” is taking shape.

Once again this is about sovereign nations and their choice of military alliances (i.e. not Russia), nothing to do with ukrainian separatists. Special note that Putin explicitly appropriates Ukraine territory ("our historical land") and in the same sentence acknowledges that his colonial stature fuels "anti-Russia" sentiment.

For our country, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation. This is not an exaggeration; this is a fact. It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty.

This is highly debatable. Russia is a major military power and has weapons capable of destroying half of Europe and Asia. In the "delicate balance of terror", there is no indication that the balance has been broken (despite NATO expansionism, Putin still has one-click "life-or-death" button over much of the world) and Putin is not providing any evidence for Russia to be under risk of military attacks.

For eight years, for eight endless years we have been doing everything possible to settle the situation by peaceful political means.

Saying "i won't destroy you if you don't become friends with my enemy" is not peaceful political means. It's threats.

We had to stop that atrocity, that genocide of the millions of people who live there and who pinned their hopes on Russia, on all of us. (...) the showdown between Russia and these forces cannot be avoided. It is only a matter of time

Putin talks about a genocide which beyond ordinary (and yes, unfair) State repression does not exist in Ukraine, and never provided any evidence for that. If anything, there is evidence that much of this spectacle was planned in advance (video metadata in official releases). And once again, Putin does not provide any evidence that Russia is in any way threatened.

Moreover, they went as far as aspire to acquire nuclear weapons.

There is exactly zero evidence for that that i could find. On the contrary, Ukraine used to be a major nuclear power in the times of the USSR and agreed to dismantle its entire arsenal in order to acquire relative peace with both Russia and NATO. This sounds a lot like the Bush administration's "weapons of mass-destruction" narrative in Iraq back in the early 2000s.

Russia accepted the new geopolitical reality after the dissolution of the USSR. We have been treating all new post-Soviet states with respect

As the military repression (some would say civil war) in muslim States (such as Checheny) and in Caucasus has shown, Russia has been treating separatists and ordinary citizens way worse than the Ukrainian has ever treated the people of Donetsk (at least from what we know publicly so far).

To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation. (...) It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force.

So they don't plan to occupy the country, yet they are bombing the capital and intend to impose ("not by force" ?!) their laws and judicial systems, as well as fully demilitarize a sovereign nation. Is that not a textbook example of a colonialist invasion?

You look to be on the side of Ukraine, that wants to prevent the oppressed people of DPR and LPR to have independence

I'm on the side of the people, against Nation States and borders. I recognize the autonomy of local community and am ready to support people struggling for their independence. I'm not on the side of Ukraine and i'm not on the side of Russia, and i'm certainly not on the side of NATO as i'm anti-France, but i also have to be against Russia on this because they're the ones who "fired" and keeps on shooting.

Your first question mixing Putin and NATO on the same side is a fallacy

On the contrary, it's the only reasonable analysis. Putin and NATO are two sides of the same dice of colonialist garbage. I stand with the people not with governments, as is a foundational principle of socialism (i strongly recommend some historical socialist/anarchist anti-war propaganda). Overall, i strongly recommend that you listen to the demands and cries of comrades on both sides of the border.

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[–] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like you didn't even read my post. Or if you did, you have some serious self-criticism to do.

You claim to be antifascist (or rather antinazi but maybe you make a difference here?!) yet you support russian fascism. You claim the ukrainian army is full of nazis (this is true) but carefully ignore that the russian army is also full of nazis. I don't support (and on the contrary condone) NATO imperialism but you obviously can't read that since in your narrow worldview someone who criticizes the russian empire necessarily has to vow allegiance to their sworn NATO enemies.

Contrary to you, i do not imply that opposing NATO means supporting Putin. On the contrary, i outlined on many occasions that anti-imperialist thinkers/fighters who oppose NATO are also opposing Putin's imperialism on Ukraine.

Yes "the people" is one side you can choose. And by "the people" i certainly don't mean Ukraine as a Nation-State or only the ukrainian people (which are not even a coherent ideological block as we pointed out in regards to separatism). I do mean the common people across all borders, who will be (and are already) the ones suffering every time there is war. War only profits the war industry and the fascist State apparatus, whether the invasion is conducted by NATO or by Russia.

Whoever starts the war/invasion, the peoples of both Ukraine and Russia will suffer heavy losses. You would know that if you were involved in actual anti-imperialist struggles and support to political refugees. The only war that's ever justifiable is war against "your" nation state, for freedom and equality. Any war in the name of a State against another always plays against the interests of the people, or as the song goes (in french): "Because was is a massacre of people who don't know one another, for the profit of people who always know each other yet do not massacre each other".

[–] a_Ha@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

J'aimerais bien l'original en français de la chanson. Depuis quelques jours je repense à "Adieu Angélina" de Nana Mouskouri ( traduit d'un texte de Bob Dylan ) & "Quand les hommes vivront d'amour"