Ukraine: Zelensky condemns "inhumane" Russia Christmas Day attack
Ukraine: Zelensky condemns "inhumane" Russia Christmas Day attack
Russia has launched a major missile and drone attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
Summary
Russia launched a major attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Christmas Day, using 184 missiles and drones, resulting in power cuts across the country.
Ukrainian President Zelensky condemned the attack, calling it “inhumane” and a “conscious choice” by Russia.
Despite the damage and casualties, Ukrainians remain resilient, celebrating Christmas amidst the crisis.
I thought Ukraine celebrated Orthodox Christmas, but turns out this was changed last year.
Eastern Orthodox in particular. Plenty of other Orthodox churches have adopted the Revised Julian calendar so Christmas falls on the 24th. At least until the leap years desync.
...which is of course still a bit off the solstice (more like 21st or 22nd) but that has been the case for basically forever as people forgot which holiday it was they declared to be baby Jesus' birthday.
it was they declared to be baby Jesus' birthday
Twas always a sham. A shame. A flutter
The Christians bewitched by a powerful other
Their Lord, born with harvest, Almighty Lover,
Was born not in darkness through which we shudder
Ukraine has been dealing with Russian influence and subterfuge in its country on such a scale for centuries that its essentially like a brain parasite, they've had to resort to some extreme measures to try to combat this control, there's no sense in being soft or cautious about it anymore as Russia has launched a full scale war against them and the way their troops and statesmen have behaved, they've essentially declared their intent is to exterminate the very idea of the nation.
so when those are the stakes. Ukraine will do a lot of things that seem weird. changing christmas, forcing themselves to stop speaking russian and speak ukrainian, etc. its total war. this is what happens in total war.
the russian orthodox church is also under the direct control of the kremlin, Patriarch Kirill is a KGB gangster like Putin, he just wears a fancy hat, but most of his preaching about god is usually in relation to killing and fighting. its just a state war church at this point.
It has. In my family we celebrate Christmas as a secular family event. But we now meet up on the December 25th not on Jan 7th.
Putin did it last year. And year before that.
Fuck Putin next year. And year after that.
Who knew war was inhumane
Some people have this bizarre idea (I blame video games of course since this is a phenomena that is newer than 1980) that violence is actually fun and not horrifying in a way that will haunt you for the rest of your life. These people believe in the concept of honor and good old boys sharing a cig on Christmas day in an impromptu relief from the shelling and gassing.
Putin isn't one of these people, he's a psycho and doesn't care at all.
That having been said it's not clear to me at least which is worse.
Russia learning from Israel.
Edit - People downvoting me seem to be saying that I must acknowledge Israel's professor i.e. USA.
I think Israel is still worse in this instance.
A teacher is always greater than the pupil, in this case worse.
But Zelensky still does not condemn Israel’s genocide on the Palestinian people. Right.
The irony of your approach throughout this thread is that the Palestinians support russian genocidal imperialism.
I say this as a Ukrainian who leans towards the Palestinian side.
EDIT: In retrospective, it was wrong for me to say Palestinians in general support russian genocidal imperialism. A fairer approach would be to say that Palestinian leadership has generally espoused pro-russian statements, but they likely didn't have much choice.
I‘m Palestinian and absolutely we don’t. We’re tired of just literally ANYONE wanting to rule us. What happens in Palestine is a genocide, period. What happens in Ukraine is also a genocide. I don’t want to antagonize you, but I’m honestly curious what you mean by „leaning towards“ the Palestinian side.
To me, imperialism needs to be abolished and I don’t care if the US or Russia or Iran or China does it. And imo Zelenskyy is a piece of shit for appeasing to Israel while they do literally the same to Palestinians that Russia does to Ukrainians. And in that sense, I will always be against the oppressor and it sounds a bit like there would be anything else to what happens to Palestinians than genocide & colonization.
That being said I wish you victory and peace.
Whataboutists can fuck all the way off with their bad-faith "arguments"...
That’s alright, great conversation.
https://unwatch.org/database/country/ukraine/
0% For Israel 0 resolutions
77% Against Israel 114 resolutions
23% Abstain on Israel 35 resolutions
Merry Christmas enjoy the gift.
Thanks, I appreciate the gift!