• Mika@piefed.ca
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    1 month ago

    Bruh Ukraine is no more corrupt than Romania/Hungary/Bulgaria. Even during the war civil society was able to defend anticorruption institutions.

    The decision not to take Ukraine into EU/NATO is purely based on politics - specifically being afraid of russia.

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      1 month ago

      there was a 20 year window where RU was to weak to threaten anybody with any thing. That would have been the time, if UKR had seen the opportunity like the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Romanians did. A costly mistake.

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        4 days ago

        This is why y’all hate Putin. Russia is no longer weak.

        They have more natural resources than any other nation in the world, especially per capita. That’s all you need to know about the West’s aggression toward them.

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            3 days ago

            It’s relative to what I was talking about, natural resources, not GDP. And I even said it was more so per capital, BECAUSE it’s not as populous.

            Not only is Ukraine not winning, it’s not such a flex when backed by the world’s richest governments.

            Ukraine is no different than Israel in this matter, another fascist ethnostate proxy for Western imperialism.

            Ukrainians can’t even vote. The men can’t even leave to escape this Nazi death cult.

            Fuck “Ukraine”.