I have some frustrations between the major takeaways i got from this war vs this threads
1. "Har har obvious propaganda im too smart for it so you fail biden/trudeau/boris what have you
You are but its actually scary how unified and how overwhelmingly effective the propaganda has been in both making usually anti american people unquestionably support a nation with apparent racism and anti lgbt attitudes and pressure even lots of right wing figures or people who leaned away from ukraine or towards putin or non involvement, both in america and worldwide
2. "har har sanction the tanks you fucking ineffective faggots suck mah dick you aint stopping no bullets from hittin no dumbfuck ukrainian with a sanction border senile biden"
the west has actually scarily managed to cut russia off even from traditional allies and the vast majority of the world and major projects that would have or have been bolstering their economy., both via pressuring nations directly and pressuring companies via their social propaganda
3. Overall i think KF has mistaken fooling you guys effectively with fooling enough of the world effectively, we have youtubers being cancelled for not disavowing putin hard enough in the mobs opinion and we have people gleefully posting the names and faces of dead russian troops and trying to get tags associated with these images trending on social media. The western war machine has managed to successfully instill bloodlust and hawkish tendencies even in populations that traditionally were forced to oppose it and managed to get much softer condemnations of their invasions vs the invasions done by competing political blocks.
i think this had to have been partially planned given biden talking of long term weaning off russian oil to reduce their role over a period of time and the calculated precision propaganda targeting russia trying to portray itself as a strong masculine military power and competing economic force. it all seems to have perfectly enabled narratives and actions that target a main piece of a block trying to compete with the west and is diminishing one of their main competitor nations.
granted its been moving really fast so these might be the standard regurgitated takes but all ive seen is people deriding and laughing at things they havent fallen for ignoring the fact an alarming number of people have fallen for it.
Does Russia have an actual casus belli against Ukraine?
interestingly i think they actually did but they essentially wasted it or it was ignored and they were forced to abandon it i forget which. iirc eastern ukrainians who were more aligned with russia culturally were actually getting fucked with by some ukrainian groups and the government doing things like suppressing linguistic minorities. its clear russia now is just using it to create a puppet state or annex it outright or to threaten the west though.
Edit dunno how close russia and east Ukrainians were politically though just in case disclaimer