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What have you changed your mind about? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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And I don't mean things you previously had no strong opinion about.

What is a belief you used to hold that you no longer do, and what/who made you change your mind about it?

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[-] Salph@infosec.pub 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm not really justifying the invasion. Its aims of suppressing the far-right in western Ukraine seems to have kinda backfired from this after all, with the Ukraine gov using this as an excuse to suppress the left.

Point is, what else could've they done? They've already tried to join NATO multiple times from even before the USSR's dissolution and have been denied (since it exists to suppress socialism, and particularly Russia, just look up what their first secretary Ismay has said about NATO's purpose, globally, not give them a say) and they already had the Minsk agreements which the US sidelined through the coup. Not doing something about it would lead to the continued killing of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, and NATO getting even closer to Russia since the post-2014 US puppet gov doesn't abide by the Minsk agreements.

you’re not the person my question was directed at

This post is open to everyone you know? OP can still respond to you if they feel like it. Wouldn't blame them for not doing so though cuz it can get pretty tiring to continuously debunk western propaganda with how prevalent it is in english-speaking spaces.

[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

This post is open to everyone you know?

Sure, but he said "...(what I thought at the time) the most obviously incorrect takes." so I was curious on hearing what made him specifically change his mind as he used to have exactly the opposite views. My question wasn't so much about how tankies justify this but how he does it considering he's someone who used to be on "my side"

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