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Ukraine war latest: EU agrees €90bn loan for Ukraine as Putin tells BBC the West is 'making Russia the enemy' - BBC News

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 56 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

We are making Russia our enemy.

  1. Poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko (2004)
  2. Energy blackmail (2006)
  3. Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya (2006)
  4. Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko (2006)
  5. Murder of Sergei Magnitsky (2009)
  6. Energy blackmail II (2009)
  7. Creation of Internet Research Agency, aka troll army (2013)
  8. Started war in Crimea, illegal annexation (2014)
  9. Started war in Donbas (2014)
  10. Shootdown and coverup of MH17 (2014)
  11. Started supporting dictator Assad in Syria (2015)
  12. Assassination of Boris Nemtsov (2015)
  13. U.S. election interference I (2016)
  14. French Election interference (2017)
  15. Sergei Skripal poisoning (2018)
  16. Brexit referendum influence (2018)
  17. U.S. election interference II (2018)
  18. Tiergarten assassination (2019)
  19. Navalny poisoning (2020)
  20. U.S. election interference III (2020)
  21. COVID-19 disinformation campaign (2020–21)
  22. Full-scale invasion of Ukraine (2022)
  23. Bucha massacre (2022)
  24. Weaponization of energy against EU (2022)
  25. Forced deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia (2022)
  26. Migrant weaponization (2023)
  27. Rheinmetall CEO assassination plot (foiled) (2024)
  28. Election interference in Moldova & Georgia (2024)
  29. U.S. election interference IV (2024)

Russia is doing nothing wrong.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget 2015 Jade Helm Scare, where they were testing their ability to manipulate using crazy stories on social media. Russia was able to convince gov Abbott of TX to order the TX National Guard to observe training exercises in Central TX because he was convinced that Obama had ordered the army to go into Walmarts, turn them into makeshift detention facilities and was planning to round up people that voted against him in a hostile takeover of the state. Obviously, it was just a training exercise, but the fear on the right was extreme.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Now that Trump is the one ordering national guard into cities they're a-okay with it. Just weird

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah the Russian propaganda machine doesn't mind what Trump is doing.

It's my understanding that Jade Helm was the pilot test to see what they could do with social media. Seeing how successful it was they turned their sights to the primaries and ramped up their efforts in the 2016 election.

[–] lietuva@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's chechnya war and Georgia invasion, both which happened after fall of USSR

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This was definitely not an exhaustive list.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 5 points 6 days ago

Also the colonization of Africa to steal all their gold and minerals while propping up warlords in exchange for armed Russian mercs that crush dissent. That's happening right now.