Is Russia doing a race thing? I thought it was an imperialism thing, needed access to Crimea for the black sea and needs to get that pesky foreign government out of the way to ensure that access

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ukrainians have their own culture, language, religion, and ethnicity distinct from Russia. Russia is killing the native population to replace them with Russians, they are abducting Ukrainian children to raise them as Russian, and they are destroying Ukrainian art, museums, and churches. It is a genocide.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

One is doing conquest while the other is doing cleansing. We all know which of those is the most evil one

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

Russia has killed over 30000 civilians, they have abducted 20000 ukrainian children and assigned them to Russian families, they have destroyed Ukrainian museums, churches, and art. It's just as much of a genocide.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

It's ... It's the cleansing, right? Or .... Maybe, just don't... Just don't do wars?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The Ukrainian thing is more of a cultural genocide with Putin having a plan on "integrating" all current Ukrainians into Russian society, but it checks out, because "integration" means "throwing away their own culture for the holy Mother Russia".

[–] Pirasp@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

You forgot the Uighurs, that is still happening