If you appear in a courtroom and your judge hates you, either you did something wrong in the trial or you need a different judge.

That’s not what the loss data shows. https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-ukrainian.html

These are all the visually confirmed losses. Notice how the bulk of the equipment lost is Soviet or Ukrainian. You’d think that there would be visually confirmed losses of US Army men or Marines, but there aren’t. Notice also how there are no reported losses of the F-16, F-35, Rafale, Eurofighter or any western fighter. As well as the conspicuous absence of air launched missiles. The only recorded loss that the US has had is 1 MQ-9 Reaper that a Russian pilot struck when trying to light it up with afterburners. Among these Tanks: of 602 tanks destroyed over all, 14 Leos destroyed. (All of which were since June) APC: of 305 destroyed, 4 were NATO (French) IFV: of 682 destroyed, 141 were NATO

As for the Russian population? Sure, they might have spoken Russian, but did they want to be a part of Russia? Independence polls from the early 90s showed Donetsk and Luhansk wanting to leave Russia by over 80 % Kherson an Zapporizia even more so, and yet Russia claims to have annexed them, despite controlling neither.

I wish this myth would die. https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/why-putin-calling-ukrainian-government-bunch-nazis

Last I checked there are Russian crewed tanks in Ukraine. Not US crewed ones. If anyone is doing empire building, the Russians are. And before you say it, shut up about NATO expansion. Poland blackmailed the US into joining and Ukraine probably could have joined too in 2009, save for the fact that the rest of NATO didn’t want to alienate Russia. There’s a reason why public opinion on joining NATO instantly flipped in Finland and Sweden once tanks started rolling across Kerson

The ICC has also issued a warrant for Vladimir Putin’s arrest https://www.icc-cpi.int/situations/ukraine

Because they don’t particularly care about a Chilean journalist who made a fool of himself in front of a mediocre historian. If they aren’t reporting much about an impending war in Africa, what makes you think that they’ll write about some obscure independent journalist from the Manosphere? Nobody has sympathy for him. He’s no Washington Post journalist.

If USSF can’t have it, no one can

This guy was also reporting on Ukrainian positions against their wishes, has been deported, only to show up again. He sincerely believes that anyone who supports Ukraine is either an idiot or evil. I wouldn’t take his word for anything, and the Ukrainians have been more than tolerant of his antics for a while.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s disappeared into Ukraine again to try and push his story

Its meaning in Ukraine, and also cardinal sin, is freedom from the Russians. This is what makes it Nazi to a number of Russians, not because the people who wave it are actually National Socialists, but because they are against Russia.

It’s understated how important The Great Patriotic War is to the Russian people. It gives a great boost to national pride. It’s when they defeated the enemies of Russia, The Nazis. So crucial it is, that anyone else who seems to want to destroy Russia is in league with the Nazis. It’s how you get paradoxes like Vlodomyr Zelensky being called a Jewish Nazi, not because he subscribes to National Socialism, but because he is against Russia.

If we go by this definition of Nazi, the flag is absolutely Nazi. It is the banner of Ukrainian defiance against the Russian giant. The complicated people who once flew this banner does not help the case.

But today, what that flag means to the Ukrainians is freedom from the empire that abused them for hundreds of years and is desperately trying to claw back Ukraine to exploit them once more against the will of the people there

Despite the API protests, the Official Reddit app sucks anyways. It uses a ton more data and battery than third party apps, so I’d never use it again. The app also has a bunch of tracking built in.