The Russian President has ordered to halt military operations during the upcoming 80th anniversary of the USSR’s defeat of Nazi Germany
As a former history student I love that RT word it as “USSR’s victory” and theirs only. I can almost hear someone’s children dissecting this in a few decades, ideally with a very pro-US source to contrast, and seeing if that sentiment shifted from 1945 to now. :)
(Before anyone puts words in my mouth, I studied history, and am well aware that we’d all be toast without Russia, and they suffered massively. I just find reading like this interesting.)
The historian in me knows a coalition of nations and peoples all contributed in various ways to the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The baiter in me just loves to say that Stalin killed Hitler and ended the Holocaust, while the Brits and Yanks kinda helped.
This is absolutely the way! :)
It is true though that the soviets were the most badass by far. Battle of stalingrad turned the tide of the war, etc.
while the Brits and Yanks kinda helped.
You forgot to mention the reason they did this was largely to intervene against the communists
That will mean a whole lot seeing what putin thinks ceasefire means
Please, point to some ceasefire violations.
Please point to a source that isn’t RT propaganda. Look it up yourself. I know you choose your facts, even if untrue.
Propaganda is when a news source I don’t like says things I don’t like. Hard hitting journalism is when a news source I do like says things I do like. I am an independent free thinker.
It’s very funny you say that because whenever I peek into the lib instances, you guys are always sharing the latest stories from Pravda UA and Kyiv Post with breathless credulity. I guess when you get all your information straight from one side’s press corps, it’s easy to assume everyone else does the same.
I’m just asking you to provide an example of what Putin thinks of ceasefires
Okay, a very quick search from a few sources slightly more reputable than Russian state media.
Or how about that putin is the aggressor as well and attacked under a pretext of training and then a ‘special operation’?
The sources of these pieces are literally the Ukrainian government itself. The journalists reporting based on these sources work for some of the richest people on the planet. If you think RT isn’t reputable for being Russian state media, you cannot seriously assert that The Ukranian government and the private mouthpieces of billionaires are even slightly more reputable. Ukraine especially has been known widely for making shit up, even NATOids admit this.
Or how about that putin is the aggressor as well and attacked under a pretext of training and then a ‘special operation’?
this is a really misinformed and reductive understanding of the situation. this is a conflict that has been happening since 2014, and arguably much longer if you consider that Ukraine is being used as a proxy by NATO which was literally founded to be an aggressor against the Russians and their allies before most of us were born.
oh are we playing “libs do quick google searches and link the first results where the headline looks like it might vibe with some claim in the vicinity of theirs and the informed have to actually read what they are throwing out there in order to respond to it” again? It’s a gish gallop every time.
I thought Putin was responding to Ukraine persistently breaking the three Minsk agreements (a ceasefire of sorts), with their ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians in Donbas.
But what do I know.
Your response to someone asking for a source to your claim is to ask them for a source to your claim?
