Ukraine-Russia Megathread 8

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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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I really, really hate how bloodthirsty everyone's gotten over this. People I knew to be mostly anti-war, or people who just a week ago were hoping this wouldn't go to war, are now salivating over the idea of an all out WW3. Like fucking begging for it to happen, eager and desperate to charge headlong into the possibility of the entire fucking world ending in nuclear hellfire, and it really does point to how war is just spectacle for them. These are people from the imperial core, so far removed from Europe, that they would never be touched by conventional war, and yet they're just fucking revved up for it.
And of course, any suggestion of peace has the libs screaming about how APPEASEMENT DIDN'T WORK WITH HITLER or whatever, as if these are comparable (I'm sure they're not, but I don't know enough to say), and anything less than full bore, 100% support of Ukraine - even if it's 95% support, with an occasional side-eye at the propaganda like that laughable UN bit today - gets you piled on anywhere but here.
I'm going full :doomer: here. I'm scared not just that there's a very real possibility of the world ending within the next few days to weeks, but that everyone I know is fully, completely, on board with either that, or nothing less than genociding all of Russia.
- Comparing Putin to Hitler is so lazy, I'm tired of hearing it. What's going on now and WWII are miles apart, totally different set ups and scenarios here. But libs default to it because the was the last time anyone could argue the USA was "good" without having to really justify it. The main catalyst to this war is the USA and NATO's aggression, not some power hungry genocidal dictator looking to do lebensraum.
  
  That and libs just seem to equate "other side getting something" as being the same as appeasement in WW2, therefore the same as letting Hitler win, therefore we can't do it. What were Russia's demands, fuck, recognize Crimea as independent, and don't join NATO? And they still couldn't let that happen, that was too much. It feels like this ends either with Russia being annihilated fully and completely, or the whole world does.
  
  Yeah don't put fucking nukes right on Russia's doorstep but nope sorry, can't do that. Time to fund some neo-nazi paramilitary units as they go around doing fash shit!
- If you think about it, a major conventional war would solve a lot of problems for people in the west. Ramped up manufacturing, a massive increase in public spending and for some, an outlet for sacrificing safety for purpose. It's not surprising that the alienated and delusional are clamouring for war. Personally, I've caught myself thinking about whether or not it's realistic to join the DPR forces (realistically, by the time I was ready to go, this conflict won't be as hot). I think people in the west, especially those who aren't doing too hot materially, are looking for purpose, and a war like this seems to offer then that.
- yeah, I am certain, totally certain, that Russia wants more land

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