highlight: Zeldisney claims Putin wants to restore the USSR

The Russian president has a habit of creating “frozen conflicts” on Russia’s borders (in Georgia, for example), not as ends in themselves but because his goal is to “restore the Soviet Union”.

  • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    who’s mad here, and what’s obvious? are you seriously buying that Putin’s goal is to restore the USSR? as laughable as that is yeah I can imagine banderite nazis would hate to live under Soviet Union II

    • GivingEuropeASpook [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s a leap to say that this is a threat. It’s not absurd to say that a country losing a war would lead to a refugee crisis? That literally is what always happens. Calling it a threat is to act like he said “if we lose, we will consciously make an effort to hurt our former allies”. It’s ridiculous and shows how the OP of the article is Big Mad that Ukrainians don’t excitedly want to be forcibly realigned to the Russian sphere of influence.

      • boboblaw [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Did you read the article?

        Curtailing aid to Ukraine will only prolong the war, Mr Zelensky argues. And it would create risks for the West in its own backyard. There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned. Ukrainians have generally “behaved well” and are “very grateful” to those who sheltered them. They will not forget that generosity. But it would not be a “good story” for Europe if it were to “drive these people into a corner”.

        He’s not saying “if we lose the war, there will be a refugee crisis”. He’s not talking about hypothetical future refugees.

        He’s saying that if the west stops supplying Ukraine, the millions of Ukrainians already in western countries will react badly.

        And from there, it’s not a leap to call it a threat.

      • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        He’s not threatening a refugee crisis, he is threatening that the refugees will become “backed into a corner” and become terrorists. IE, he’s threatening the west that if they cut off funding to Ukraine then Azov terror cells will be activated throughout Western Europe. We have been predicting as much from the start of the war, it’s extremely predictable that fascist terrorists would turn on their masters if they money spigot gets turned off and use the western arms/training against them, as Taliban/Al Qaeda/ISIS/etc before them all did