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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

That emblem brings this from a solid B+ flag to F-

Its not a bad design, but those don't belong on flags.

[–] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Without it many personal wouldn't have recognized that it's not the original flag.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Intresting. I'll be honest, I have zero knowlage about the new flag or the nation (which I should fix...)

I just judged the flag as a flag.

[–] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In that case I as your student wouldn't accept F- as a grade, because you didn't see the original flag with three pigeons and a blue line in the middle. But ok.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 month ago

I personally like emblems, icons and heraldry on flags. Without them, flags are often enough just bars of colors.

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[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Congratulations to the "good guys", you sacrificed thousands of Ukrainians but now you have funny memes about Kursk, so it was definitely worth it.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Lots of Russians died too, so as far as they're concerned it's a win.

[–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not "lots of", more Russian soldiers died than Ukrainians, as is typical for this conflict.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh good, more Russian orphans than Ukrainian orphans were created. That makes this all worthwhile.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they could have surrendered just like the other Russians did.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not really how wars work in the 2020s. There's no opportunity to surrender when you get droned in a truck miles away from the front lines or hit by a glide-bomb in your barracks hundreds of miles from the front. We saw the same thing in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay call it not surrendering then but deserting and then surrender.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Between deserting and surrendering is sneaking across miles of territory, through the front lines, in hopes that the other side accepts your surrender and puts you in a POW camp instead of droning the guy in an enemy uniform sneaking towards their position.

We've seen plenty of videos of both sides droning people trying to surrender.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's really convenient when you can force other people to fight and die for your war..

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

In our defense we didn’t invade either country.

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The West offered Zelensky a way out and to give up the moment the war started. He and his country refused and asked for weapons to defend themselves against a tyrant that will never stop. How exactly did the west force Ukraine to fight?

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago (18 children)

The West offered Zelwnsky a way out and to give up the moment the war started.

What? The west (and especially Boris Johnson) encouraged Zelensky to fight and encouraged him to drop the peace proposal (which included Russia going back to pre-2022 invasion borders!).

He and his country refused

Just "He".

How exactly did the west force Ukraine to fight?

The west supports Zelensky's regime, which kidnaps people on the streets and sends them to die.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Zelensky could have fled. He refused. Ukrainians could have surrendered, they refused surprising everyone. Putin will never stop unless he is stopped. To support Ukraine surrendering is to support many many more Ukrainian deaths in the future.

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[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

is this what the lastest stage of a copium addiction looks like?

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Zelensky wasn't offered a ride out of Ukraine? Is that what RT tells you?

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[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fuck the imperialist russian state. They had an invasion coming the moment they invaded and annexed crimea.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Okay, you hate Russia.
But why do you hate Ukrainians? Why do we have to die for your grudge with Russia?

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not the one who invaded Ukraine, but i support them fighting back against the aggressor.

would you rather just roll over and let russia take over?

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You support who fighting back against the aggressor?
People who are now trapped in the biggest mass prison in the world? People who are trying to escape this prison by any means, including through the occupied territories, mountains and rivers? People who are afraid to leave homes and go to grocery shops, because any day they might be kidnapped by "recruitment officers" and forcefully sent to die?
You are not supporting us, you are killing us, together with Russia.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay Russian shill, let’s just believe you’re a low intelligence Ukrainian and not actually getting paid.

Citizens have a duty to defend their nation or the nation will cease to exist. If Ukraine ceases to exist then the child murdering Russians have gotten everything they want for the small cost of bombing some children's hospitals.

So supposing you are a Ukrainian, you’re a disgrace and a coward.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Citizens have a duty to defend their nation or the nation will cease to exist.

No, nobody has a duty to die for politicians. If people don't want to protect their "nation" then it probably shouldn't exist.

So supposing you are a Ukrainian, you’re a disgrace and a coward.

No, you are a coward for not joining the foreign legion and fighting your battles, and instead forcing other people to do your bidding.

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But it seems to me that many many Ukranian citizens are actively fighting to ensure their survival and the survival of their nation, so by your own logic it should exist. If you don't want to fight, that's fine. Don't fight. There should be no duty to fight, but if you love your country, and want your way of life to continue, you should fight against the invading forces who want to destroy your country and way of life.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (18 children)

But it seems to me that many many Ukranian citizens are actively fighting to ensure their survival and the survival of their nation

You have outdated info. It might have been somewhat correct 2 years ago, when there were some volunteers. Now - it's pure propaganda spread by Zelensky and parroted by the western media. Now, the only thing people do "actively" is trying to avoid being kidnapped on the streets or trying to flee the mass prison that is Ukraine, some dying in the rivers/mountains trying to do so.

And even those who fight - they don't fight for their survival, not even for the survival of the state (although I guess in some sense you can say that), just for some peace of land, which the state wants to control.

If you don't want to fight, that's fine. Don't fight.

Oh really? Thank god I have a choice. Oh right, I don't - Zelensky's regime will happily kidnap me, my family and my friends and send everyone to die at the first opportunity they get (although with me it will be harder, because I escaped Ukraine before the war started).

There should be no duty to fight

Indeed, I'm glad that we can at least agree on this.
If only you also stopped supporting those who force this "duty" on others...

but if you love your country

How can I love a country that wants me dead?

and want your way of life to continue, you should fight against the invading forces who want to destroy your country and way of life.

You are (most likely) looking at this from a perspective of a westerner, who has never been in Ukraine and/or Russia. If you live in USA, EU, or basically any other "first world country" - I can see why you would fight Russia to "keep your way of life". Look at any metric you want (GDP, HDI, corruption, journalist freedom, amount of wooden toilets in the countryside) and you will see that both countries are the same shithole give or take. Average Joe wouldn't even notice his government has changed.

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[–] wieson@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This operation has the potential to better Ukraine's strategic position greatly. Ukraine winning means the dying of civilians stops. Ukraine giving up would not have the same result.

Did ww2 stop when Germany conquered Czechoslovakia? - No.

Did ww2 stop when Germany conquered Poland? - No.

Did ww2 stop when Germany conquered the Netherlands? - No.

Did ww2 stop when Germany conquered Denmark? - No.

Did ww2 stop when Germany conquered France? - No.

Did ww2 stop when Germany conquered Norway? - No.

Ww2 ended, when Nazi Germany was defeated.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Ukraine winning means the dying of civilians stops. Ukraine giving up would not have the same result.

Ukraine winning, Ukraine giving up, Ukraine making a peace deal with Russia, Russia winning - all those options will mean the dying of civilians stops.
The only option where people will continue to die is the option you (probably) support - continuing the war.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is not my perception.

Russia winning means, the dying will continue in the suppression of their new subjects and in future invasions since this one would have been successful in the end.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

How many people have died from "supression" (whatever it means in this context) in the Crimea, that has been occupied for 10 years now?
And the next question - how come this number (is it 0 or more?) is less then the number of civilians (some of whom be Ukrainians or ex-Ukrainians) that died from Ukrainian shelling of Crimea?
Do you think people should have a choice of dying in this, very real, war, or in some hypothetical could-happen war in the future?

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[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, yet another 4-letter pro-Kremlin account systematically spreading lies and propaganda using the exact same narratives as Russian state-controlled media. Must be a coincidence.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Ah yes, another lemmy.world account accusing me of spreading lies and yet not disproving any of them...

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

History repeating as a farce.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Reminder that the ukrainian tryzub is fascist [2] symbolism.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What are you talking about? It's the coat of arms. It's a symbol since 1918, when fascism didn't even exist yet. Some nationalistic fascist organization using national symbols isn't news, and it doesn't mean fascists exclusively own it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Ukraine

Edit: oh sorry everyone, didn't see it was a lemmy.ml user. Block and move on 🤷‍♂️

[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

i guess when u see a flag flying a swastika u are like "probably not nazis after all there are many other people who used to use that symbol in the past", and u know that is? its because u are lib and as we all know scratch a lib...

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[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (20 children)

Symbols have more than one meaning… The word “fascism” comes from one of these symbols: the Fasces. However the fasces are still used by France:

Or by the US:

Are these countries fascists just because they use the Fasces? Of course not. They have other meanings. It's the same with this Ukrainian symbol.

[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

are u implying that the amerikkkan empire, the country created to steal land and genocide and preserve slavery the country that bankrolls fascists everywhere, the country that does everything it can to oppress working people not only within its borders but outside them, an oligarchy where the head of state is selected by rich oligarchs and has near limitless political power, ISNT fascists. Amerikkka IS fascism it is the very template that the original fascists and the nazis based their designs on.

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