Way to conveniently forget the hostile takeover of Crimea

Ah yes, the hostile takeover that happened after a popular referendum and saw no resistance from the local population, very much violent, unlike Ukraine shelling Donbass for years of course, that was just defensive peacekeeping to maintain democracy in Europe!

Also, something happened inside of Ukraine’s borders is now provocation… For Russia to invade?

Yes, because as it turns out it wasn't inside Ukraine's borders, it was a violation of the DPR/LPR's borders since Ukraine backstabbed everyone and decided to rip Minsk 2 apart :^)

Just how much are they paying you, huh?

10 rubles per comment /s

I see you guys posting these ceasefire violation images all the time like it’s some smoking gun for Ukraine being the aggressor in their defensive war

Russia is fighting a defensive war against NATO expansion and Ukraine is the aggressor here, they are the ones who violated Minsk 1/2 and never fulfilled their duty to go through a constitutional reform and grant Donetsk and Lugansk more autonomy:

"11. Conducting constitutional reform in Ukraine, with the new constitution coming into force by the end of 2015, providing for decentralization as a key element (taking into account the characteristics of individual areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, agreed with representatives of these areas), as well as the adoption of the permanent legislation on the special status of individual areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in accordance with the measures specified in Note [1], until the end of 2015. (See Notes)"

Where does it show which troops the ceasefire violation was committed by?

In the OSCE reports:

https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512506

https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512605

https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512629

https://www.osce.org/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine/512683

Are you suggesting that people in Donetsk and Lugansk bombed themselves to make Ukraine look bad?

And why would ceasefire violations along an internal border like this warrant a full scale invasion from another country?

Because it's a violation of the ceasefire between Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the three were supposed to stay as one country so long as Ukraine kept their promise and didn't violate Minsk 2, but they did so now we have an even bigger war there.

China lifted 800 million people out of poverty by building healthcare, transport, housing, jobs, education and food security? Heh, but what about that time European settlers got richer by genociding Native Americans? Technically that was "poverty reduction" too, commie

invaded without provocation

LOL

Here's two little things that happened literally just days before Russia decided to invade:

Ceasefire violations against the DPR and LPR:

Zelensky threatening to pull out of the non-proliferation treaty and acquire nuclear weapons: https://uawire.org/zelensky-ukraine-may-reconsider-its-nuclear-status

Solution: dump more money into the war, no peace talks with Russia, just keep dumping all the equipment reserves so that the stock line goes up!

Deliver the F-16s and when that fails to beat Russia just like every promised wunderwaffe has just make up a new one!

this war will only end with Putin thuroughly defeated

Do you really believe that? After 3 months of this pathetic counteroffensive with nothing to show do you honestly still believe that Ukraine will turn things around with the power of friendship?

It’s always a weird flavor, too. Like “I’m communist but only if I get all the wealth. Also I hate minorities but love the LGBT.”

Can you point to a single comment that said this? Doesn't even need to be from Hexbear or Lemmygrad, just in general.

Did you know that China is responsible for 75% of the global poverty reduction over the last 40 years?

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. At China’s current national poverty line, the number of poor fell by 770 million over the same period.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/e9a5bc3c-718d-57d8-9558-ce325407f737/content

Not an option the Ukrainian gov will accept

Losers don't get to dictate rules, the negotiations will be between Russia and US/NATO, it doesn't matter what the client state thinks.

The problem is that Ukraine is given enough not to lose, but not enough to win.

The problem is that Ukraine is given what the West can afford to give, they haven't got the industry to fight Russia's war machine in a war of attrition anymore after deindustrialization and the shift to neoliberal policies. Sucks to suck, shouldn't have shipped manufacturing to China to crush their domestic labor movement 😄

Ukraine violated the ceasefire and attacked the DPR and LPR days before the invasion happened:

landlords