My two cents as a western European: several things can be true at once. Russia is still the agressor, starting with the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Zelenskyy was elected shortly after that, replacing a puppet regime that was in place for quite some time (although that’s just what we’ve been told, again I’m not Ukrainian so I haven’t followed a lot of it).
Zelenskyy does have some folks in government that are his unconditional allies but that’s uniform in politics. His current role is that of a caricature he’s become since he was painted as some sort of hero in 2022, where he made some correct PR decisions. Now that he shares a stage with the US’s odd characters, his job has become somewhat bizarre so he’s fully aware he needs to be looking more at the EU. He’s always been pro-EU and wanted to join as soon as he took power.
This shift you speak of came from lemmy.ml or lemmygrad, but their users also spill over into world since those instances have mostly been defederated because of the baseless accusations towards Ukraine. What is based in reality is that there in extremists in Ukrainian ranks that have, let’s say, unorthodox views, but their main objective is still to just fight Russia out of Ukraine.
I think that for most of lemmy, people are just getting more or less bored of voicing their support, making it easier for pro-Russian voices to prevail. But it’s usually pretty much troll-ey ragebait and I think a lot of lemmings just downvote and move on. Plus, lemmy and piefed have pretty decent filtering options making it easier to just block content you’re tired of seeing.
My two cents as a western European: several things can be true at once. Russia is still the agressor, starting with the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Zelenskyy was elected shortly after that, replacing a puppet regime that was in place for quite some time (although that’s just what we’ve been told, again I’m not Ukrainian so I haven’t followed a lot of it).
Zelenskyy does have some folks in government that are his unconditional allies but that’s uniform in politics. His current role is that of a caricature he’s become since he was painted as some sort of hero in 2022, where he made some correct PR decisions. Now that he shares a stage with the US’s odd characters, his job has become somewhat bizarre so he’s fully aware he needs to be looking more at the EU. He’s always been pro-EU and wanted to join as soon as he took power.
This shift you speak of came from lemmy.ml or lemmygrad, but their users also spill over into world since those instances have mostly been defederated because of the baseless accusations towards Ukraine. What is based in reality is that there in extremists in Ukrainian ranks that have, let’s say, unorthodox views, but their main objective is still to just fight Russia out of Ukraine.
I think that for most of lemmy, people are just getting more or less bored of voicing their support, making it easier for pro-Russian voices to prevail. But it’s usually pretty much troll-ey ragebait and I think a lot of lemmings just downvote and move on. Plus, lemmy and piefed have pretty decent filtering options making it easier to just block content you’re tired of seeing.
That is the ukrainian october 7