Ukraine on Saturday expressed solidarity with Israel after a barrage of rockets was fired from Gaza.

If you needed any more proof that Ukraine and Palestine are nothing alike, here it is. I cringe every time I see radlibs with Palestine AND Ukraine flag in bio.

  • Jobasha [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    47·
    9 months ago

    Fully expected. Didn’t Zelensky say at some point that they are looking at Israel as a model for what a victorious post-war Ukraine will be like?

  • ikiru@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    Israel should also pre-emptively defend itself against Azov and bomb those Nazis too.

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Eh, I’m not a fan of the Ukrainian government, but considering how much they depend on Western aid, they pretty much made this statement under threat. Taking the side of Palestine would be a big shining off road to many of their backers and would have been impossible even if they were really great guys.

    Not giving the US and Europe a convenient excuse to cut off aid by “supporting terrorism” or whatever is not very high on my list of things to critisize them for, considering how often they have done the wrong thing when they actually had other options that would not hurt them.

      • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Don’t know that they could have gotten away with even that. Some of their backers are looking for any excuse to get out.

        Once again, this is not in support of them. I fully believe that they truly do support the fascist side and would have done so regardless of pressure from the West. But in this case they actually were under pressure to say exactly this, so I’ll save my scorn for when they do this kind of thing unbidden and with no stakes, which is - to be clear- often.