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• @robear@lemmy.zip 2026-09-15 15:26

  As you mentioned Donbass, I’ll make three arguments with some evidence: The majority of people in the Donbass did not support seperatism: www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2019/04/12/7211983/ While I agree the repeal of the language law was unnecessary and ill timed (and Ukraine was even advised against it by the EU), it did not amount to suppression of minorities. If you define a minority in Eastern Ukraine as a Russian speaker, they are in fact a majority. When Russia started the seperatist uprising, they did not defend Russian speakers against western Ukrainian speakers, they forced the minority of Russian speaking Ukrainian seperatists to fight against the majority of Russian speaking Ukrainians who wished to remain part of Ukraine. husj.harvard.edu/…/language-status-and-state-loya… While pro-Russian misinformation often talks about CIA maidan operatives and NATO cyborg mercenaries, the seperatist movement which became Russia’s causus belli for the full scale invasion was completely reliant on Russian state funded ultra nationalist paramilitaries and regular Russian army volunteers on “vacation” as a fifth column: themoscowtimes.com/…/10-years-later-russian-volun…

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