Russia has now attacked a US factory and British and EU diplomatic buildings in Ukraine. It is directly attacking Western powers, which is new. Is this a response to Ukraine’s successful attacks on Russian oil refineries?
Russia has now attacked a US factory and British and EU diplomatic buildings in Ukraine. It is directly attacking Western powers, which is new. Is this a response to Ukraine’s successful attacks on Russian oil refineries?
I think Russia is getting desperate. They will do anything now to sow more dissent, to drive home the “need for a quick peace”. It doesn’t even matter if the bombs were targeted or the result of bad targeting. Throw more shit at “The West”, maybe it’ll give Russia a break before it implodes.
Exactly. It feels like they’re trying to provoke a response so that they’re “justified” in escalating in some way.
I guess they think that no matter what happens, they can spin it in a positive light.
A reaction from affected countries: “See? We knew Ukraine is controlled by NATO powers, they operate within Ukrainian borders! We must continue and fight the threat!”
No reaction: “See? They know that Russia has the superior military! They don’t date to strike anyways, we can continue in Ukraine without them retaliating!”
Of course, both these statements are dumb, but they’ll use something like these for internal consumption.
if you are still spelling russia with a capital R - they are still doing fine.
This is the second comment I’ve seen today about using russia instead of Russia. Never heard of this before.
Afaik most people use the Z as in Ruzzians or RuZZ to mark Putin loyalists, if that compares to your usage.
It’s is a reference to the Z symbol as in the " Z" army forces which launched the 2022 U.A. invasion. This symbol is now regarded as the Ruzzian (or ruZZ) Swastika ( pro-Putin pro-war & genocide people).
De-capitalizing russia and putin had been popular in Ukraine ever since the full scale invasion started in 2022. I can see why it’s not always applicable in other languages, so feel free to deface the word however you’re comfortable with.
Yes, always good to have more artistic leeway as in how to demean Fascist murderers.
Depends.
In my mother tongue “Englanti” means “England” and “englanti” means “English [language]” (and “englantilainen” means “English [thing or person]”)
If I write the name of the Russia with a lowercase letter, it gets confused with the Russian language. “A factory was bombed by the Russian language” is such a bonkers phrase to say that I prefer just using the uppercase letter. And then my brain has it difficult talking about the Russia with a lowercase letter in other languages either.
Could be something like that for A_norny_mousse, as well. Being from feddit.org, their mother tongue is likely to be German, and there they have something similar. Because for example “spielen” means “to play” and “Spielen” means “the playing”, and because any verb can be converted to a noun that way, in the German Language you write all Nouns with a capital Letter. In speaking you can hear them from the pronounciation, but in writing you need the caps. If you write “russland” instead of “Russland”, you end up turning that word into a verb. Or maybe an adjective. Anyway, something else than a noun.
Fortunately, russland would still be a generic noun (it doesn’t derive from a verb) not confusable to a verb or adjective.
Fuck it, revoke russia’s noun privileges /s
you are pressing an entire separate button to entitle them with being a name. they are not worth it. russia is an adjective. actually, it’s “русня” (“rusniA”).
Dunno. I think adding “the” in front of it is enough. Around summer 2023 I saw some high-ranking orc (Peskov? Medvedev? Cannot remember) using “the Ukraine” in a social media post on Twitter or Telehlam or whatever, in order to emulate using the Russian preposition “na”. The high-ranking orc figured using “the” in front of Ukraine’s name is insulting and thinks that it somehow shows Ukraine as a region instead of being a full-fledged country, so I took heed of the example and started saying “the Russia”.
I’m not sure if it really conveys the notion that the Russia is an artificial creation that is a weird product of Mongolian corruption mixed with stealing the name of the people living in the country behind the Russia’s southwestern border and claiming some of that other nation’s inventions as the Russia’s own… At least the common reader probably doesn’t get it.
But, Kremlin considers it an insult to add “the” in front of a country’s name, and this is the one thing where you can trust what Kremlin says 🤠
So, capital letter it is, because using a lowercase one would alter the Finnish grammar more than it alters the Ukrainian or English grammar, and I am not able to write it one way in one language and another way in another. But there’s always the “the”, as requested by Kremlin.
(BTW, between 2014 and 2022 the Russia was working actively to get the west to use the article “the” in front if Ukraine’s name. What has happened is that it works as a fantastic marker for recognizing who has been accidentally accepting information from Russian propaganda sources!)