"The main reason for the war is not hatred of Ukraine. Nor is it the case that most Russians want a restoration of the Soviet Union...The reason is exactly what Olaf Scholz called ridiculous...a genocide in eastern #Ukraine..."natyliesbaldwin.com/2022/03/the-ma…
"Many Russians found it an insult for a German chancellor to use such words in the context of mass murder in Eastern Europe – ridiculous – even if what happened in Donbass could not be considered genocide strictly by definition."
"today you will not find anything about the victims in the East in western media, only the victims of the Russian attacks. That is a huge problem, because it was the Ukrainian army shelling its own population... an omission of facts, in this case, is a lie that leads to violence"
"Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians feel attacked and sacrificed...I find it distasteful to weigh up whether it is genocide or not in the context of thousands of deaths in the hands of nationalist battalions. Fascism is, as Camus said, contempt."
"I am a witness that my Ukrainian acquaintances considered the people of the East to be inferior. They used all sorts of arguments — for example that the lumpenproletariat had concentrated in the East. Is this an acceptable argument? It seemed to be in the #Ukraine."
"The hope is that #Russia will go down so far economically and politically that people will rise up. For me, this is a mistake in thinking. I can’t say it won’t happen, but at the moment the calculation is wrong...Russia is not understood culturally, even anthropologically"
"People also see #NATO as a military alliance in combination with the economic power of the West. The fact that the West can use so many sanctions makes the association between NATO and economic power believable to Russians as the two sides of the same aggression."
"The war in Iraq was based on a lie — hundreds of thousands were then killed...But no one has imposed sanctions on the US and its coalition. That isn’t possible, is it? The West is the master of world capitalism. This compels #Russia to think about the alternatives"
"There are alternatives. There is China. There is also a Russian mix of communist and conservative values. One therefore must contemplate how to free oneself from this western capitalism and combat it."
"The nightmare scenario for the West would be an alliance of nations and different cultures rebelling against the civilizational domination & arrogance of the West. The West claims that #Russia is isolated, but it may be underestimating the underdog’s resentment across the world"
"Even if #Russia loses in the current confrontation with the West, the world order...will not simply return to the liberal version of business-as-usual. And a defeat of Russia, which, for ex, leads to a civil war, can be even worse for its European neighbours than its victory."
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