Not at all. I believe that a wannabe empire builder and bully like Putin should not be allowed to impose his will on an otherwise free people in Ukraine and commit cultural genocide against the Ukrainian people/language.

The vast majority of people agree with me. The few who do not are probably all doing so for ulterior motives, and they themselves would agree that wars of aggression are bad in principle, but they happen to hate America or the West or something so they see Putin as the lesser evil.

/u/dekachin is just sperging out with random tl;dr. Actually on subject, https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/15K6JQkegL/x/c/4OezB37bQq9

A few of them later changed their minds, including famously the Crimean meme woman, but not only her. They claimed they were deceived:

The latest member to speak out, Vyacheslav Markhaev, wrote on his Facebook account on Sunday that, under the pretext of recognizing two separatist enclaves as republics, “we hid plans to unleash a full-scale war with our closest neighbor.” Markhaev is a senator from Siberia.

He and the other two Communist members had been among the Duma deputies who voted in favor of a recent resolution recognizing the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic. But in his Facebook statement, Mr. Markhaev said that Duma members were not informed of plans for a full-scale invasion, and that he believed a government decree saying troops would be sent in as peacekeepers.

Earlier that week, Oleg Smolin, another Communist member from Siberia, wrote on his Vkontakte social media profile that he was “shocked” when the invasion began. “As a Russian intellectual, I am convinced that military force should be used in politics only as a last resort,” he said, adding: “I could not vote for the recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics without betraying myself.”

The third Communist deputy, Mikhail Matveyev from the Samara region, said on social media that the war must be immediately stopped.

“I voted for peace, not for war,” he allegedly wrote on Twitter and Telegram, “For Russia to become a shield, so that Donbas is not bombed, and not for Kyiv to be bombed.”

He later deleted the posts, explaining in a Twitter thread that he was not doing it because he had changed his mind, but because his words had been reproduced “across the world, most often anonymously, to incite mutual hatred.”

“I just don’t have the time to delete hate comments created as part of the information war,” he added.

Mr. Matveyev explained that he supported peace, but he did not want to be seen as someone who “shoots our soldiers in the back while they are fighting where the politicians have sent them.”

“Ukraine is my Motherland,” he concluded, adding that he is hurt by everything that happens there.

And as for the meme girl (paging u/TheImpossible1):

Former Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya has been dismissed from her post in the Russian government, weeks after criticizing Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin removed Poklonskaya from her post as the deputy head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s federal agency for international outreach, on Monday.

The 42-year-old took up the role in February 2022, after declining to run for a second term as a deputy for the ruling United Russia party in Russia’s lower house of parliament.

The former lawmaker spoke out against Moscow’s invasion of her native Ukraine, calling it a “catastrophe.”

“People are dying, houses and entire cities are destroyed [leaving] millions of refugees. Bodies and souls are mutilated. My heart is bursting with pain.”

“My two native countries are killing each other, that’s not what I wanted and it’s not what I want,” she said in a video address to an international forum in April.

She later criticized the spread of Russia’s pro-war Z symbol, which has been prominently displayed on buildings and merchandise to symbolize the public’s support for Russian troops in Ukraine.

Her comments sparked outrage from other officials, including her boss, Rossotrudnichestvo chief Yevgeny Primakov. He claimed that the letter Z was a symbol of the “liberation of Ukraine from the obvious evil of terrorists and bandits.”