Zelensky posted warm thanks to Israel’s president for Independence Day wishes. He said Ukraine-Israel ties will grow and prayed for peace. Meanwhile, Israel bombs Gaza and occupies Palestine. Russia does same in Ukraine. Ukraine supports Israel, but Israel is just like Russia. Selective outrage is not okay. If you cry about invasion, dont support another invader.

source: https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2092372329594511598

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    They’re also allied with the USA, who are also attacking countries as they see fit. I’d assume by default that Ukraine just allies with whoever is willing and able to support them materially, and IDK if I should fault them for that while they’re in the middle of fighting against an invasion. Then again, Zelenskyy is Jewish and as such probably pro-Israel like most Jews …

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    Welcome to politics, Ukraine needs any support it can get and that means climbing ass of whoever is not Russia. Like giving medals to Elon Musk just to make sure he does’t wake one day and give Russia access to Starlink again

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    I refuse to judge a man trying to keep his people alive in the worst of times. He has to make impossible decisions and I’m not in any position to think I could do better.

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      lol i could, but I’m the type to lose a war i can’t win, instead of stalemating for decades

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        I’m the type

        Come on, you’re commenting on Lemmy. You’re not the type to do anything lol

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    Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows

    The Ukrainians are doing what everyone thought was impossible. As long as they don’t do warcrimes I’ve got no notes.

    Wildberries is not a warcrime, it’s a hybrid military supply chain. Same with gasoline.

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      Ukraine is hitting infrastructure that helps the Russian army. This is war, and sometimes they hit the wrong targets, but Russia is deliberately hitting cultural places and civilian infrastructure.

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        While the Ukrainian Left is, from all I know, a stark supporter of Palestine.

        Ukraine is hitting infrastructure that helps the Russian army. This is war, and sometimes they hit the wrong targets, but Russia is deliberately hitting cultural places and civilian infrastructure.

        It’s not that I disagree with you, but I don’t get the quote. Are you sure you responded to the right comment?

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    Putin claims, that Ukraine is not a valid state - and (like all revanchists do) he presents some “historic data” to rewrite and “fix history”. When attacking Ukraine, putin’s Russia also calls the attacks as “setting the territory free”. Putin also VERY broadly uses other terms like “nazi” (“neonazi”). How convenient!

    In the Palestine-Israel war there are equal revanchist claims to rewrite and “fix” history, as well as demands about another state not being “real” or “valid”. Out of the two sides, it’s the single one resembling putin’s revanchists and using the same rethorics to set the territories “free”. And not tolerating the other one to even exist.

    That’s an unpleasant pill to swallow, i know. It has never been. Hence, the war.(

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      Pro-russian ignore the reality that Ukraine has Jewish president. That is not Nazi. The ‘denazify’ excuse ignores that the USSR killed 27 million — the same scale as the Nazis. Russia is not fighting Nazis, just invading. And they know it very well.