Big if true. I expect a lot of malding and liberal hair pulling.

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      It’s cause he’s trying to court Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, The Philippines and other nations that all hate Israel. It’s opportunistic posturing

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          The government of Philippines is zionist friendly and US comprador, you are right. That doesn’t mean its entire population is however. I thought it was there that Zelenskyy started criticizing Israel when questioned by a reporter and calling for peace and a 2 state solution, but it was actually in Singapore at IISS Shangri-La dialogue.

          I believe he’s trying to improve relations and PR with Asia and Africa overall, so Philippines might not have been the best example for nations that hate Israel. He did visit there separately to court them. There are a lot of them that do hate Israel though such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and most of Africa.

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      who-did-this -style article titled “Yes, Ukraine has a Nazi problem” in which the author wonders how is it that nobody ever noticed the Nazi symbols the Ukrainian military has been using this entire time, and then explains how that relates to Zelensky’s support for the terrorist Hamas terrorists who October 7-ed Israel on October 7.

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      lathe-of-heaven

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        Real title fight of “We will never acknowledge there being a nazi problem” vs. “Anything than unconditional support for israel is the holocaust”

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    two state solution is fascist af but this is better than like 99% of western countries and it being ukraine specifically is awesome, so critical support i guess

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    Yes, Zelensky is doing this because the US is sending money and guns to Israel instead of Ukraine. But Ukraine has already, since 2022, had diplomatic problems with Israel.

    In November 2022, Ukraine supported a UN resolution that asked the International Court of Justice to investigate Israel’s “prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of Palestinian territory”. In response, Israel summoned and admonished Ukrainian ambassador. Shortly after, in “an apparent act of retaliation”, Israel did not vote for a UN resolution calling on Russia to pay reparations for invading Ukraine.

    During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry condemned attacks on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and supported a two-state solution to the conflict. More than 300 Ukrainian scholars, activists and artists expressed solidarity with Palestinians in an open letter. Most of the Ukrainian community in Gaza was forced to flee the country because of the war.

    On 2 June 2024, Zelensky reiterated Ukraine’s support for a two-state solution. He remarked that, while Ukraine has supported Israel’s right for self-defence against Hamas during the attacks in October 2023, during the humanitarian crisis Ukraine said that is ready to help Gaza humanitarianly and it “will do everything so that Israel stops and civilians do not suffer.”

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    Extremely interesting development. Do you think it’s simply because he sees popular support globally for Palestine and wants to piggy-back some of it?

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      Do you think it’s simply because he sees popular support globally for Palestine and wants to piggy-back some of it?

      Honestly, yes, I suspect this is more his motive than being angry that Israel is getting more aid than him. Him recognizing Palestine isn’t going to divert any aid to him, if anything the opposite. However his foreign support comes mostly from western Libs, most of whom are at least somewhat Palestinian sympathetic. They’ve been losing focus on Ukraine so he’s hoping this statement wins him some more support from them and gets him back in the news cycle long enough that US public opinion swings back in his direction a bit.

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        I think it has more to do with the opinions of the global south than the collective west. He’s been trying to court “neutral” nations like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, The Philippines, etc. and get them to come to his peace summit in Switzerland.

        This is him saying opportunistic shit to try and get some of them back onside, since basically none of them what anything to do with Ukraine

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    there’s no way this is real right? Weren’t they talking about wanting to become the I**ael of europe?