It’s a fact.

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    6 hours ago

    For sure, countries need to look inward and start digesting that many people ate the onion in the first half of the 40s. Not because we need justice for the deaths of local minorities commited by nationals, but because this type of behaviour causes great trauma not just for the victims, but the aggressors. They pass this trauma down and it remains alive in current generations. It usually doesn’t even manifest itself as outright racism, just lots of anger issues in general (I guess this part is anecdotal).

    All that being said, fuck Russia for bringing this up now. They went in to Ukraine under the flag of denazification. But Latvia is in Nato, so I don’t really see this as a cassus beli, but more of sowing division in EU.

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        1 hour ago

        Maybe the time for mutual understanding has passed.

        If you feel nazis are your main baddie, it might be better to understand what makes them tick. If not for empathy, then for hitting where it hurts.

        Why do you say I am denying the presence of nazis? They are usually a niche demographic, but present in any country. I am not saying let the bastards speak hate with impunity.

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          "They went in to Ukraine under the flag of denazification. "
          You said that as if it wasn’t true and stopping the ethnic cleansing of the large Russian speaking population wasn’t valid enough reason in itself.
          The other reason was demilitarisation.
          Also a valid reason since NATO expansion right next to them, undoubtably with nukes, is an existential threat.
          Russia gave them plenty of chances to prevent war but they didn’t listen.
          Never intended to honor the Minsk accords, as Merkel admitted, and only used it to buid up their army.
          It was the west that started this with their regime change coup and wanted this to happen.
          A proxy to be used and then thrown away.
          It is their usual MO.