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I love how russians always jump in to talk about ‘both sides’ and ‘rulers’, when it’s your ruler who chose to invade, and it’s russian people who are choosing to go into a foreign country, occupy cities and kill civilians. It’s also russians that are choosing to move to occupied cities like Mariupol and buy property near literal mass graves. What’s even more mind-boggling is that russians are joyfully going on a killing spree while like you said having relatives in Ukraine. But yeah, let’s play the victim and say ‘both sides’ are struggling.

Another prime example. The lack of awareness is so staggering that this person actually believes russian people of all professions invading a foreign country and bombing civilians somehow equates to Ukrainians of all professions being forced to leave their lives behind to defend their country from those fucking invaders. The audacity is unreal.

It also shows that even on Farcaster, you’ll find war and genocide supporters justifying these actions and trying to garner empathy for “their side.”

Reminds me of Israelis claiming the IOF are victims while they bomb kids to pieces.

lol yeah, when I saw that comment, I thought, wait, is this person actually proud that their army of invaders consists of ‘creators’? Also, interesting choice of words: “they are all present.” Present where, exactly?! On the territory of a neighboring country where they kill people? Anyway, an easy block from me.

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did y’all engage that person? 

it doesn’t look like it was written w malice to me. it looks genuine - as in the person believes that and is sincerely talking about it — even if not true to you or anyone else. 

they may be trying to say each side that is fighting is human, and ultimately putin put his people there, the soldiers didn’t. 

russia has professional soldiers, and criminal conscripts (i dunno if ukraine does), and one could say those soldiers in some way are creators etc. 

i like to try to see each sides viewpoint and understand what is ‘true’ to them. 

i agree w you here tho

This is either dangerously misguided misinformation or blatant disinformation.

Vladimir Putin's preposterous false pretext for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was to 'de-nazify' the country. 

The reality is that he had failed despite decades of interference in Ukrainian politics to keep an independent country under his thumb and invaded believing that he would achieve a swift victory. 

He sorely misjudged both Ukraine's desire for independence, and his own military's competence.

While I can't argue against the suggestion that there might be ordinary people on the Russian side of the war who don't want to fight, it's a false equivalency to suggest that Russia is anything but the aggressor in this war.

Irina has every right to block someone who spreads such blatant mis/disinformation in her comments.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/analysis-putins-claim-that-war-on-ukraine-is-to-target-nazis-is-absurd-heres-why

I did engage them, until they showed that their thinking is so wholly lost to Putin's genocidal propaganda that it's hopeless and blocked the account

Sadly, the same is the case for many people from Russia whom I once considered close friends

It's what happens decades after media independence completely disappears in a dictatorship 

Feel free to read for yourself

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I did engage them, until they showed that their thinking is so wholly lost to Putin's genocidal propaganda that it's hopeless and blocked the account

Sadly, the same is the case for many people from Russia whom I once considered close friends

It's what happens decades after media independence completely disappears in a dictatorship 

Feel free to read for yourself

https://warpcast.com/eirrann.eth/0xbb888e79

That's a hard one

I do think it's more difficult when you grow up in a country where there's only ever been one president and there's never been a free media

That said, I wholly agree with you 

It's far too easy these days to fall into a rabbit hole of lies that feed your subconscious prejudices and unknown suspicions

I don’t think the media is the problem, though. All Russians have access to social media and foreign news. The younger generation isn’t even watching government TV, they’re all on Instagram, TikTok, and Telegram channels. So I think it’s a choice to believe what they want to believe (kind of like how MAGA Trump fanatics choose to believe what they want, even when an abundance of information proves them wrong, or Israel supporters choose to believe there IOF is justified in bombing children even after seeing all those videos of live-streamed genocide). And in Russia specifically, I think the motivation to believe the lies and support war is more about justifying why they don’t do anything to change the situation.