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Obviously the Ukrainians are proficient both in asymmetric warfare and psyops. Thing to learn.
It's not just "psyops" how can you not see that? There is literally no political opposition in the country anymore. It is far right regime that has shut down all opposition and created a scenario in which anyone that isn't remotely in line with exactly what the regime wants now ends up on an assassination list.
Dismissing it as "psyops" is a defence of a very clear and inarguable act of fascism. By dismissing it you are normalising the act of putting people on assassination lists for saying extremely mild things that a government dislikes.
Ukraine now gets a free pass for literally everything because HURR DURR RUSSIA BAD! That was made official when Amnesty retracted their report about unethical Ukranian war tactics this month because people freaked out that they would DARE criticise anything about Ukraine. I'm convinced that they can literally open up an extermination camp for Russian POWs with gas chambers and the West will find a way to spin that as either "they need it to defeat Russia" or "Russians are even worse so that makes it okay", you know, the arguments they used to smear the Amnesty report.
And these are the people who accuse us (socialists) of "whataboutism".
I respect your perspective, even if I do not share it.