Comment by TheOtherHobbes

8 hours ago

If the people who attacked Ukraine without provocation - just as they attacked other neighbours in other regions - are attempting to bring down a democratically elected regimes across the region, so they can replace them with weak compliant puppets, the "thought crime" becomes straightforward self defence.

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  • It was though. If Russia wanted to annex Ukrainian separatist states, it could have done so before they invaded.

    Since it didn't, Ukraine never attacked Russian territory.

    Then Ukraine the elected a Jewish person whose mother tongue is Russian and speaks Ukrainian with a slight russian accent. Which threw their 'Nazis who want to kill Russian-speaking Ukrainians' narrative in the trash, and maybe it was lived as a provocation since it made Russian propagandists looks like fools.