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I've always compared this invasion to a sexual assault, actually. Aggressors love to say "They were asking for it."
What a disgusting piece of rhetoric bankruptcy, as expected from liberals and gringos most of all.
You know what can be compared to sexual assault? The sexual assault regularly happening to Roma people and ethnic Russians in Ukraine at the hands of Azov and other right wing battalions and paramilitaries in Ukraine, as per the Donbas documentary.
There's also been allegations of rape and torture in Kursk, and why wouldn't there be? The CIA trained the Ukrainians in counter insurgency, which is their way of saying terrorism. If you wanna know what it'd look like if they hadn't defended themselves, look at the West Bank.
Interesting that you don't /seem/ to be aware of the invaders' rapes and racism at all. There's rape and racism everywhere, literally every single where. But sure, tell me how rapes and racism show the inherent evil of Ukraine.. surely the kind of provocation that shows "They were asking for it." This is coming from a rape survivor, btw, can't shame me out of using it as a metaphor.
Lmao there it is. When there's credible accusations leveled at Ukraine, suddenly it's no big deal because everyone does it, but mostly the side you're against, which isn't okay.
I'm not claiming the inherent evil of anywhere, I'm not a racist fucking lib. I'm saying there were crimes being perpetrated against the Ukrainian people, and they defended themselves and asked Russia to aid them, which was their right.
Whatever you've gone through, it doesn't make it any less disgusting to weaponize trauma to invalidate the struggle of others. Jewish people went through the Holocaust, it doesn't make their shouts of antisemitism at the slightest criticism valid, nor does it justify the deflection from their own crimes. But I can't say I'm surprised by how low gringos will go to paint their incessant war profiteering as virtue.