The moment Putin said that there wasn’t really such a thing as “Ukranian”, he made it very clear that genocide was the goal. He started with the premise that the thing he wants to eliminate doesn’t exist in the first place.
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My own report from the USA/Mexico border between Tijuana and San Diego…
I went to the border to see if any help was needed, and it appears Ukrainians are getting through to the USA just fine, but Russians seeking political asylum are having more difficulty. There is a small camp of 25 or so people next to the checkpoint for about 5 days now. People are offering food and drink, but it’s still rather hard because of a lack of privacy or showers.
I talked to a couple of the impromptu leaders, who said there are offers of places to stay in the US, it’s just a matter of getting through the checkpoint. I hung out until they could decide what they would do, and left my number and address in case anyone needed a room tonight, because rain is predicted and they’re exposed.
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War is hell, but urban warfare is the deepest, darkest pit. I can only pray it doesn’t come to that.
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I don’t know, more alive doesn’t sound like a normal diagnosis. What does Dr. Oz have to say?
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o_0 Seems like a way to start an armed resistance… From what I have read, other than the Russian backed separatists, even though they speak Russian and are more culturally Russian, they also have lost their zeal for supporting Russia due to the violence in the last 8 years.
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I think it was Snyder who suggested that many Ukrainians were bilingual and code switched.
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Is that difficult?
How different are Russian and Ukrainian anyway? Is it like English and Scots, or like English and German, or something in between?
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I have absolutely no idea.
This paper says
According to Tyshchenko (2000), the lexicons of Russian and Ukrainian differ by 38%. To compare with other European languages belonging to a single language family, Spanish and Portuguese differ by 25% and Spanish and Italian by 33% (Tyshchenko 2000:266–267). The remaining 62% of the Ukrainian lexicon contains 44% of lexical units morphemically identical to Russian, and 18% morphemically similar to Russian (Bilaniuk & Melnyk 2008).
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FFS
The people of Ukraine are proud of Yuri Gagarin’s achievements, they still have buildings named after him. They even made a stamp on the 50th anniversary of his flight. Stop targeting the wrong people!
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Gagarin’s achievement is one for all humans. It stands in opposition to Putin and his ilk. I hope this event isn’t cancelled this year.
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Huh. Putin really must be quite ill.
Nobody rants and raves that the sun will in fact rise tomorrow.
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Just like if 45 said it; if Lukashenko says that, Putin must be on death’s door.
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TL;DR: Russia Not Good at Military Stuff
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You kinda fall victim in believing part of their propaganda. Facists, Nazis, they don’t really care about ethnicity. It’s its a talking point to them, to rally people.
The first people in German concentration camps? Germans. (And no, that doesn’t make Germany the first victims. Just these specific Germans.)
[s|]Same here.[/s]
And with dehumanising rhetoric of “spitting out flies [dissidents and war-critics]“ and “cleansing” it’s not really a surprise
Edit: Sorry, first victims were Ukrainians of course. I meant to say that the same principle applies here, that it’s not really about ethnicity or protecting said ethnicity.
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