I also see what you’re saying and I can see why the left didn’t really want to cosy up to Putin. After all he’d been funding the people who literally want to beat the shit out of them dox them for a while. These ties go back before 2014.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiffeisenbank_(Russia)

This bank is notorious for funding right wing politicians in Austria they do big business in Russia so do a lot of other sketchy right wing fucks.

I agree that the Ukraine war didn’t need to escalate to the point that it did and the United States is as much to blame for the fucking shit show we are in now. Capitalism fucking sucks and normal people are currently getting squeezed and lots of them are running right like lemmings the whole thing pisses me off. Anyways I need to actually focus on this shit I should be doing right now and need to take a break from posting, I wish you all the best and I appreciate all News posts you do and I find them interesting.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I agree with all that. It's a shitty situation all around, and Europe put itself in a rather unenviable situation by allowing the US to drive its policy since the Cold War ended. Hopefully people will start waking up to that now. In my view, the smartest thing Europe could do at this point would be to improve relations with China and use it as leverage in dealing with Russia.