- cross-posted to:
- ukraine
- cross-posted to:
- ukraine
Summary
Days before the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians find unity threatened not just by Russia but also shifting U.S. support.
Donald Trump’s false labeling of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator” has provoked fierce backlash, even from Zelenskyy’s critics, who now rally around him.
With ongoing Russian attacks and Ukrainian forces stretched thin, Trump’s suggestion of a swift end to hostilities raises fears of concessions favoring Russia.
Officials argue that elections amid war would undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty. Many vow to continue resisting, regardless of major foreign policy changes.
People don’t like to hear it because it’s coming from a corrupted pig like trump but zelenskyy is indeed a dictator. Martial law is a form of dictatorship and it shouldn’t exist: human beings do not need authoritarian laws to be able to defend themself. While zelenskyy has been touring the fancy courts of world rulers to get money and weapons that directly empower his government ukrainian men between 18-60 haven’t been able to leave the country since 2022 and in fear of getting stuck there many ukranians living abroad haven’t been able to return. There are cases of people dying trying to flee the border and the draft reach the point where they started kidnapping people in the streets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_conscription_crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXhC8WREVKM
Aside from you turning standard democratic practice in wartime into dictatorship and molehills into mountains, and the general backing that those policies have in Ukrainian society, which is perfectly intact as a polity – you know what’s a fast and easy way for all of it to stop? Russia backing the fuck off into its own territory.
Suspending and abolish human rights it’s not a standard democratic practice, it’s standard practice for corrupted rulers who seek every mean to get more wealth and power.
If you were russian and china decides to invade your country would you been fine with russian authorities kidnapping you off the street to fight for their government?
I don’t know, is China arresting people who protest the war and throwing them at frontlines in Russia? “Front or fifty years of gulag for high treason” kind of voluntary recruitment?
That’s an interesting wikipedia article - that’s the first time I’ve seen [failed verification] on a citation, let alone two. You learn something new every day.