“I’m fine with Asians, but Russians are Asians. They have a completely different culture, vision. Our key difference from them is humanity.”

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        Now you see, THIS is whataboutism. The point here is that we have a leader in the current Ukrainian government who comes out and says that he considers Russians to be subhuman. You come up with a baseless claim that we think all Ukrainians are nazis. We think that the current government of Ukraine is dangerously far right and descended from actual nazi collaborators. You don’t want to hear it because it doesn’t fit your world view.

        You might also be interested that I translated it using AI. Results weren’t great, but language used around the 26 second mark matches the translation in the tweet pretty well. You can do this yourself instead of just calling it fake and lashing out at the left.

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          Buddy reddit/r/ russia was full of you like minded nutjobs calling Ukrainians nazis. There’s tons of video clips of the same. Your poorly translated version is NOT what he’s saying. Context matters and you getting a snippet of it is not what’s being said.

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        No? I think there is a Nazi problem, but that’s it.

        Though uh, the Ukrainian security chief is sounding like a Nazi here…

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          Again thanks for highlighting exactly my point. Baseless nonsense as cconsumed from russia one. You guys are amazing.

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              I’ve seen one article parroted by Russian propaganda engines saying thus. Never seen a video or any other sources saying it.

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                Saving this comment for later whenever Western press gets around to covering the story.

                Supposedly he said it on live TV. That’d be a hell of a thing for Russia to lie about lol

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                  Oh yeah- like russia doesn’t lie about obvious things. Bombing civilians at railways, bombing civilians sheltering under theaters, bombing civilians in maternity wards, bombing civilians in retirement homes etc etc etc.

                  I’d be willing to bet money someone is deliberately misquoted or changing context of somethig said.

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                    Lying about bombing civilians is standard in warfare. Everyone does it.

                    It definitely could be a misquote! That’s why I’m saving your comment - I want to know if I’m wrong later.