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There are various misleading narratives surrounding Ukraine:
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That Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is legal because of previous NATO interventions abroad
- This is wrong, something doesn’t stop being illegal just because someone else did it first, this argument is about hypocrisy, not legality
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That Ukraine was planning to build nuclear weapons, posing a threat to Russia
- No proof of this has been presented, and the argument for it is based on a misinterpretation of a speech
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That Russia’s annexations of South and Eastern Ukraine are legitimate because they were supported by referendums
- This is not true, as the referendums weren’t carried out in all areas of the regions they were deciding for, and they were carried out in an unfair way
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That the Russian leadership is Communist, and their goal is to restore the Soviet Union
- The Russian government promotes nostalgia for the Soviet Union, but not because they’re Communists, they’re nostalgic for the power the Soviet Union once had, which was much more power than Russia has today
- For the same reason, they promote nostalgia towards the Russian Empire as well, which the Communists overthrew
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That the Soviets, and their leader Lenin, created Ukraine
- This is not true, the modern country of Ukraine was created by the Ukrainian People’s Republic, which the Communists opposed, and the Ukrainian people existed before that
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That the Ukrainian government is an illegitimate “regime”
- The Ukrainian government was elected by the Ukrainian people, this gives it legitimacy
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That the war in Ukraine is a “proxy war”
- Ukraine isn’t a proxy, if anything it has been calling the shots to the West rather than the other way around
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That the West has been hiding secret bioweapons in laboratories in Ukraine
- The labs are real, but they aren’t secret and no evidence has been provided of bioweapons being produced in them
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