Stickers with the slogan ““Russia is not my enemy” have appeared in Romania, France, and Italy.
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“Russia has launched the propaganda campaign ‘Russia is not my enemy,’ which has reached Romania. Stickers with this message are appearing in cities as part of the Kremlin’s hybrid campaign aimed at creating the illusion of a ‘peaceful partnership.’ Through such tools of influence, Russia seeks to portray itself as a peacemaker, downplay its own crimes, and sow discord within European societies,” the statement by the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council said.
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The Center added that the purpose of the campaign is to undermine citizens’ trust in the rule of law and democratic institutions in their countries, cast doubt on the Euro-Atlantic course, and discredit support for Ukraine.
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Russia has significantly intensified hybrid attacks on the EU’s critical infrastructure since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
You hear that? That’s the sound of lemmy.ml deleting this post from their instance.
I’m new here, why would that be? Don’t know the rep of the place I just joined I guess
People not on lemmy.ml turn a blind eye to the donbass civil war, the nazi militias role in them and how the ukrainian government enabled them. Instead for them this war started in 2019 and its only motivation is that Russia wants to conquer all of europe. They then accuse lemmy.ml of being blindly loyal to russia because they cannot conceive of a different reason why someone might be more critical of ukraine than russia
Are you telling me the average opinion on .ml is in favor of Russia invading Ukraine?
And … ugh I’m taking the bait but wtf, whatever nazi militia shit was stirring pre-invasion, Russia went directly for Kiev on day one. It’s impossible to deny the imperialist, genocidal objective of Russia in prosecuting this war against Ukraine - the evidence for it is public, well established, and Russia doesn’t even deny it, they claim it as their own!
I’m not one to stick my head in the sand, but I sure would like to hear someone else disagree with the assessment that I’ve joined a fully delusional instance.
Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear are the big three tankie instances. ml is the most moderate of the three with a bigger portion of normal people because it’s the most visible instance. But the core membership of all three are basically staunch anti-western to the point that any tinpot dictator can do no wrong as long as they oppose the US and its allies.
This is disheartening.
My hope was that federated communities would mean smaller scale and therefore higher social accountability – meaning both fewer propagandists and bots, but also some kind of forcing function to make discourse actually make sense, like accountability to the other members of the group to maintain a shared understanding of reality. I guess I was missing the fact that people regularly disagree about what real even is.
I don’t actually know where that optimism came from. Maybe I’ll stick around for a minute, but idk, I can’t in good conscience legitimize tankie rhetoric by making actual sense while wearing a tankie uniform.
Thanks for the heads up
No, check out my recent ban.
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A Ukrainian civil war, fought with Russian weapons and Russian military personnel?
People hit on .ML for repeating the propaganda of an Imperialist war machine. Just as much as most sane (non US) people hit on idiots repeating the propaganda of the US Imperialist war machine. Or Israels, or whatever.
I am talking about the post-maidan civil war in donbass where the social order in east ukraine broke down, police abandoned their posts and the civilians looted the stations for weapons to defend themselves against the “right sector” banderites. basically everything before the invasion.
And I am talking about the very same period. You seem unaware that Russia has been flooding the Donbass with weapons since 2014. Provided military assistance with intelligence, material and even personnel.
Tell me: who shot down MH17 in 2014? With what weapon?
Little green men on vacation comrade. Everyone goes on holiday with military weapons. I have my Davey Crockett all packed up.
Hello tankie!
Hello patriot