Sometimes is difficult to tell is they are trolling or if they really believe in half of what they are saying.
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In my case it is usually both. The two are not mutually exclusive. The opposite in fact. A good troll almost always contains undeniable truths, or at least interesting ways of looking at things. That's what makes it effective.
Believe it or not, the main reason I spend any time on this thread is because I would like the whole thing to end out of concern for what are probably a significant majority of Ukrainians who are good people caught up in a bad situation which they are not responsible for. Every day I am more and more of the opinion that one of the main driving forces behind the conflict is that the current political leadership of Ukraine, and the people above them, is the straight-up genociding of the Ukrainian Slavs generally. The Ukrainian Nazi-ish creeps too who I don't care much about. Death by
I also feel that the people of some of the areas of former Ukraine (Donbas for instance) will be better off under the muscular protection of Russia than they were under the current (and probably past) leaderships of Ukraine who were relatively open about the need to exterminate them. Or at least some of the more loose-lipped of the Ukrainian nationalists were. Once you put a plan like that into action it is effectively a lose of any moral/ethical claim to an area as far as I'm concerned. Who here is at all surprised by Ukrainian generals stating bluntly that Donesk _must_ be razed and by seeing banned anti-personnel mines being fired into long lost civilian areas? I wasn't. That's how degraded the Ukrainians have allowed themselves to become. I would put almost nothing past them at this point. Something has gone seriously wrong with their brains. Would be worth figuring out what it is someday, but what ever the case, for the here and now, it is what it is.