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Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US became the only member to use its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief says he will keep pushing for peace.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and then want to assimilate the Ukrainians into their country

Textbook genocide. The erasure of a group of people is genocide. That can be done by:

  • Ethnic cleansing and mass killings (as demonstrated by piles of bodies in Mariupol I believe, as well as mobile crematoriums)

  • Kidnapping the group's children (again, loudly and proudly admitted to by Russia) to deny the future of the group

  • Forcible assimilation by preventing the group from practicing it's culture and identity (as demonstrated by Putin saying Ukraine is actually Russian because it's historically part of the Russian empire)

There's one more, that I pray isn't being used and I think we'd have heard if it was. Rape can be used as a weapon of war to force the group to give birth to your children, and deny their future in that way. To my knowledge Russia does not have a campaign to do so with Ukrainians, thank God.

A lot of the tactics Russia is using aren't new either, look into Russification by the USSR to Eastern Europe. They would envelop states into the USSR after purposely growing a Russian population there with settlers. This is the big reason why Eastern Europe tends to hate Russia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

as demonstrated by Putin saying Ukraine is actually Russian because it's historically part of the Russian empire

Funny that he says "Russian Empire", because Russia hasn't been an Empire since Tsar Nicholas II. Is he trying to go back to those days, like try to install himself as Tsar?