“This is Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine, which is a blatant violation of international law,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
“And according to international law, Ukraine has the right to self-defense. And it also includes strikes against legitimate military targets, Russian military targets outside of Ukraine. That’s international law, and of course, Ukraine has the right to do that to defend itself.”
@index Ukrainians ARE already fighting for freedom!!!
@0x815
Same of them are for sure but remember that ukrainian government is currently an authoritarian regime that won’t let any male between 18 and 60 leave the country, this has been going on for over 2 years.
@index that’s not what authoritarian means.
Males between 18 and 60 will get arrested and put in prison by authorities if they try to leave the country
@index It’s a martial law. It sucks, but it just is what it is. Were you also this angry when flights were cut during the pandemic and people were not allowed to leave their house for 14 days when traveling?
Tell me rather how drafting and sending people to the frontline to die for Kremlin in foreign countries if they try to flee Russia is not authoritarianism.
Yes it is what it is: dictatorship. You can fight for freedom and still allow others to go where they want
Why wouldn’t one be angry with it? Were you ok with china locking people inside their houses for months?
It is indeed authoritarianism now you tell me how russian and ukrainian martial law are different
@index
I see, other countries were not locking people and were free to pass the disease away
Just take a look at each country’s president, see how many terms each of them has got so far, see whose country attacked whose, and you’ll figure out if that martial law is legally imposed due to an actual state of emergency, or if it’s only a means to gain absolute power.
They are both corrupted and the ceos of a corrupted country, you can just take a look at wikipedia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
@index @petrescatraian
The same regulation was in place under Churchill during WW II. No elections took place. I suppose he was just another despot.
They probably were
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Imperialism_and_racial_views
Russia fought the nazi too during WWII under stalin totalitarism.
Rulers seek power and will use everything they can to get more