Corruption, treason in Ukraine won't be tolerated, Zelenskiy says

What is your source for it being more corrupt than it's ever been before? This directly contradicts the data from Transparency International's corruption perception poll, which shows that it's the best it's ever been, but still bad. There has also been pressure by the EU to reduce corruption as part of the roadway to EU membership. The US has also been apply pressure for going on a decade. Recently, this has resulted in several high profile indictments against high ranking officials.

War tends to make corruption harder to tackle. Everything is so focused on war efforts that a bribe here or there seems trivial in comparison. You also have a tremendous number of displaced people, which make them vulnerable. The resolution of the Russo-Ukrainian War will make corruption much easier to tackle.

Zelensky said so

You’re talking out of your ass and it stinks.

Go back to Lemmygrad

which by some weird thought process becomes a pro-Russian position.

I am a communist and the prevailing attitude in most circles I am in is not an explicitly pro-Russian one, it's just not explicitly pro-Ukraine either. There is a also an underlying understanding of the reasons why the war started. Just because you don't support one side does not mean you have to 100% uncritically support the opposing side. The sooner we stop thinking of everything in black/white terms of Team A vs Team B, we will be a lot better off.

Now there are those who have nostalgia for the USSR, which is not the modern Russian Federation, but it's fairly niche. Usually people understand that modern Russia is not the soviet union. There are the patsocs too, but we don't really claim them.

I am not the Official Spokesman of Communism, but those are generally the attitudes I have seen in most of my circles.

Communists are very against fascist Russia. It's just a small totalitarian-minded group masking as communists here who support Russia or some honeypot/psyop

They're not people, they're CCP and Kremlin LLM bots.

It's actually Mali, but they say it stands for Marxist-Leninist

This is lemmy.ml, which is full of informed leftists (unlike liberal centrists who lie about being leftists) who can see modern Russia performing a geopolitical role in line with the Soviet Union and love to avoid Anglo NATO propaganda. Anything "Western" is automatically bad and evil (those damn Anglos or something) because Western imperialists have a well documented history of inventing atrocities, committing genocides and plundering rest of the world for the past 500 years, and since Ukraine's democratically elected government got overthrown by USA in 2014 (see Nuland-Pyatt leaked call) for a NATO puppet, and has been committing a genocide of over 14,000 ethnic Russians for the last 8 years, it is the bad guy.

Take a wild guess at what the ".ml" means. Mali country TLD!

Nyet

Lol. OK.

Looks like Anglos woke up.

It's not petty to respond to threats of nuclear annihilation by a fascist Nazi regime next door. Come on now.

Like I mentioned in my other comment, I think that both leaders can and should be criticized independently, a comparison between the two is not useful.

Neither leader is socialist, so in my opinion, neither truly has the best interest of their country's working class at heart. There could be some observation and speculation about how the possible outcomes of the conflict could promote socialist aims, but that is still independent of both guy themselves.

Does it makes a difference if you kill one person or 100? For charts maybe but you are still a murderer even if you kill a bunch. All politicians have blood in their hands, they don't fight their wars, we do it for them and we get forced to do it. Ukraine is under martial law, males between 18 and 60 can't leave the country.

Plenty of russian likes putin too, they are victim of propaganda. I'm sure these Ukrainians between 18 and 60 who want to leave the country but they can't don't like their government much.

I'm not going to take a hard stance here cause I don't think a side by side comparison with Putin is a useful conversation to have, but I want to point out a couple things that may add some nuance to what you've heard before.

• Since 1991, Ukraine has been in an increasingly precarious geopolitical position, with many differences among it's population and political leadership about how to proceed. One could argue that Zelensky ended up stuck between a rock and a hard place, but at the end of the day his fumbling around and repeated motions towards joining NATO were bad political moves that nearly forced (kinda, maybe not forced idk) Russia's hand into a military action. Even if going to NATO was definitively the correct choice (weird thing to think, tbh), he managed doing so incredibly poorly.
• Be aware that Ukraine has had a lot of division among the populaton about whether the country should be Western/EU aligned or Russian aligned. There are many historical and cultural reasons for different regions, communities and individuals to have their particular views (like any political stance). Consider that if you spoke with a Ukrainian person somewhere outside of Eastern Europe, and used the English language, they are probably going to have a pro-western, pro-zelensky viewpoint. You probably won't hear much from Russian speaking Ukrainians who wouldn't prefer to emigrate to "the West", and support Ukrainian alignment with Russia.

He brought his country to war for the US to make a bit of money. He's a traitor to his people. Not only as a Ukrainian but as a Jewish Nazi collaborator.

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