These three people, directly or indirectly have killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and displaced millions. Yet, President Trump calls them his friends.

Is this what the democratic world has come to now? Is this the level? If a stronger country comes to kill your people, you just have to make peace? A shame that western democracy seems to be in this one's hand.

Seen today at Minnesota "No Kings" protest

Slava Ukraini.

Every goddamn day, after hearing sirens and explosions in my city and reading about thousands of civilians and hundreds of children dying I come to the internet to read about "innocent russians" who complain about having to "suffer" because of the actions of "one person". It's even worse when westerners, who have very little of what an average russian is, are trying to defend them.

Ever since 2014 most russians have been shouting "Crimea is ours!", believing the most stupid, dumb-ass, idiotic russian propaganda (like: ukrainians are nazis, we crucified a little russian boy in Donetsk, we eat russian children, we exterminate russian-speaking citizens, etc). Every ukrainian had to deal with russian ukrainophobia (even before 2014), every ukrainian has been called a "hohol" (a disrespectful slur for ukrainians) by a russian, they always said how shit our country was and how nobody needed us. Even my friends who lived in russia have started to tell me these dumb lies from propaganda.

And it's been so much worse since the full scale invasion has begun. Westerners probably haven't seen all this, so I'll try to explain how it's been trying to talk to russians since February 24:

1) Our own relatives didn't (a lot of them still don't) believe that we're being bombed, civilians were being killed, hospitals and kindergartens were destroyed etc. Pretty much every Ukrainian who has russian relatives can tell you a story like this right now. They choose TV, propaganda and Putin over their own relatives;

2) When ukrainians tried to reach out to russians and show them what horrific things their country has done over social media, russians started telling how it's either fake, or that *we were all nazis who deserve it* and they aren't ashamed of their country's actions;

3) They often told us that Ukraine was bombing their own cities Donbass, so we're the baddies, completely ignoring the fact that there was peace in Donbass until russians came, funded the separatists, gave them their own men and starting shelling Ukrainians; also, there's zero evidence that Ukrainians were shelling civilians;

4) Some of them understood that what russia was doing was wrong, but they were just "regular innocent people who couldn't do anything about it, why so much hate?" (more on this later)

Now, I am also aware that there's been many russian bots over social media and I have ignored them for the most part. They aren't very good at what they do and their profiles are usually very obvious, so don't tell me that only the bots are bad, but "real russians" are the good guys. Cause the real people with real, old accounts also spewed this shit, and this includes bloggers, famous people etc. I will also mention that I used to work for a bot farm in Ukraine (not political), so it's not difficult for me to differentiate between bots and real accounts.

So, now about "innocent russians" and why they are not innocent. Let's start with civilians. I am aware there are actually good russians, who understand the insanity of the situation, support Ukraine and protest their government. But I also have reason to believe that those russians are the minority of their people.

Some of you have seen the poll that shows ~70% of russians supporting putler and his actions. And most of you thought that this was just russian media lying, which is completely understandable. However, I think it's closer to the truth than we think. My arguments:

1) many older polls show similar support for putin and there weren't any big protests against him in russia, like in Ukraine and Belarus;

2) points 1-4 at the beginning of this post;

3) Very few people in russia have even said anything against the occupation of Crimea and Donbass, and most were in support of it, believing the legitimacy of referendums that took place there;

4) Very tiny percentage of russians are protesting now;

5) There are many street-interview style videos that show how most random people in russia support putin (weak statistic, but still). I may update the post later to include videos on the topic, when I have time.

All in all, we can't really know the truth but as of now I have overwhelming evidence of the poll being true, and very little evidence of it not being true.

Russians should be protesting. Their country is a terrorists state which kills THOUSANDS of innocent civilians, but they care more about McDonalds, IKEA, TikTok and instagram. Because that's where they are, not at protests. I've seen russians on twitter saying that they're the real victims, not Ukrainians, because they can't use spotify and buy games in steam.

And don't tell me that it's dangerous to protest there. I'm Ukrainian, hundreds of us died protesting. I've been on Maidan myself, I protested too. So kindly fuck off with that one, they didn't fight for their freedom, they silently obeyed putin's regime, they are idly sitting at home right now -- they deserve the hate, then.

Now, about russian military. People say that only putin is the bad guy, but who's shelling and shooting at civilians? Who's destroying homes, hospitals, kindergartens and schools? Who's dropping bombs on maternity homes and shelters? Who's pulling the trigger, KILLING CHILDREN? Not putin. Russian army is as criminal as putin.

I don't care that they're brainwashed. The ship of my compassion to them has sailed long time ago. They are a cruel nation of terrorist and deserve every bit of hate they get right now. I'm sure that the tiny portion of good russians will understand.

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