apparently z means βruzziaβ π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£
at first i thought zionism RIP
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This is the first I've ever heard of Zs being used on Russian vehicles. I've never spent long enough examining any of the war footage in detail to go like "oh there's a little letter Z painted on that tank", at most I might think "the tank is painted with some markings to identify it" and move on to whatever the actual focus of the picture was.
What? The whole half year of the invasion was spend with ruzzia and omg z is the new swastika (it isnt)
I don't not believe this is a thing, I'm mainly bewildered at how I managed to never hear of this at all until now. Apparently I don't hang out in the right parts of the internet to have seen this, from my recollection the first 6 months of the war was mainly people adding the Ukraine flag to their usernames and spamming it everywhere, plus some grainy footage on r/CrazyFuckingVideos etc.
It wasn't just used on the vehicles that you could see in grainy war footage. It has been widely used in both pro and anti russian demonstrations for the last 3 years as a symbol for the war. How about instead of instantly assuming that someone you disagree with is inherently wrong about everything and trying to clown on them you look it up?
At worst this is just an example of the "oh, you think posting about milk is racist"
shit. It isn't really a subtle symbol at all, it is at about the same level as using watermelons for Palestine.
Then either you've been living under a rock, are very young, or the algorithm of the platforms you use has not been showing you that, because it's been openly used as a marking on their military vehicles since day 1 of the Ukraine invasion, and has become a symbol for both sides of propaganda.
Or when you spent "long enough researching in detail" you somehow missed the Wikipedia page for it (first result in Kagi and third in DDG for "Z symbol" - link doesn't render properly on some clients because it has parentheses)