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    13 days ago

    “Actually, but Ukraine DID provoke”

    Mostly NATO, and by that I mean mostly the US. The Ukrainian state is in bed with and dependent on the US, so yes it was and is a participant.

    mixing in unverified, ideologically biased material with references that are legitimate

    The implication here is, the more biased, the less trustworthy/factual. This is false, and anyway, I don’t think you fully see the bias baked into the supposedly unbiased sources. And “unverified” I suspect means not blessed by Western states (which are run by the capitalist class[1][2]) or Western NGOs (which are funded by Western states and the capitalist class) or Western corporate media (which are owned by the capitalist class).

    isolated incidents

    Liberals often view history that way, but historical materialists don’t.