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Kind of a cruel irony that the best the people of Donbass can get this very flawed help from Putin, when UN peacekeepers would’ve been much better…
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and apparently there were several competing proposals for UN peacekeepers from both the RU and UA side between 2015 and 2018 but they couldn’t agree on preconditions, where they would deploy, for how long, etc.
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The subtitle uses the word “exterminate”like he’s suggesting a genocide. Is that an accurate translation? Or is he suggesting something more like useless jobs or bureaucrats should be eliminated. Find it hard to believe anyone would openly suggest literal genocide.
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I would have to defer to someone who understands Ukrainian better than I do — I only get the general gist of what he’s saying. Fwiw, the bottom, Russian subtitle says “kill.”
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But it’s believable — doesn’t represent the vast majority of Ukrainians or Russians, but anything you can imagine a hypernationalist from Pakistan or India openly saying about the other side during the partition, is something nationalists on either side of this war will say too.
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