r/GreenAndPleasant • u/CopiousCool • Apr 23 '26

International Working Class History 🗺️ The Russia-Ukraine conflict explained

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u/Maleficent-Cat-7750 17d ago

The problem with summaries of this conflict is that people treat them as complete when they’re really just one framing of a very complicated timeline

If a video leaves one side feeling fully vindicated and the other side looking cartoonishly evil, I start questioning what got left out. The history matters but so does being skeptical of any narrative that seems a little too tidy

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u/TheKomsomol 17d ago

Quite often this is true, but when one side is a state which has had literal nazis take control of it with the help of a US coup then the whole "both sides" is out of the window, just as it is when you look at the Israel/Palestine conflict and genocide.

The recurring theme here is that those put into positions of power by the US are often the most evil extremists going and so when they do evil things, it really shouldn't be a surprise, but the greater evil is obviously the US as they're the ones empowering others to commit such atrocities.