Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

According to research by Erica Chenoweth, non-violent resistance is twice as likely to succeed as violent resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZkhzO4mJ6I

Directly confronting invading soldiers, person to person https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pekBo-ynIhI

Defiance in the face of overwhelming odds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7hltmoHQGg

Ukrainians block roads to Russian advance of 'Europe's biggest nuclear plant' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXLW1-okjE

Unarmed people are standing up to military threats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX8UGH5q74o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXG6O996kQ

Criticizing the fascistic elements of those fighting on your side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duETyTwojYc

Criticizing militarization in the face of military invasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUCFXlplww

Russians protesting all over Russia, many thousands of non-violent protestors arrested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffyR6QFqNo

single man stops tanks with only his body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl8stxUxfNw

protestors block roads for incoming tanks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwbGAuS_KwM

engaging with opposing soldiers with humor and humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14gVDF2b1vA

public protest in Russia in the face of aggressive, armored police and guaranteed jail time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG3Z1iiynRc

Peaceful protest in the face of Russian solders' shots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886GLfYIvpA

I gotta say, I'm now feeling like the tables have really turned. The sanctions response it shaping up to be quite strong. As someone who witnessed the Sept 11 attacks with my own eyes and lived and worked in the smoke of the wreckage, I now can only wonder: where were these sanctions when the US and UK started the illegal and destructive #IraqWar ?

There is lots of talk of military support for #Ukraine, there needs to be much more coverage of the extraordinary acts of non-violent resistance to the Russian occupation. We must work to support strategic non-violence as least as much as military defence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIpgrZ8yS-Q

"...to keep open the possibility of an offer of Nato membership [to Ukraine] that Nato has no intention of ever honouring, and asking Ukrainians to die for this fiction, is worse than hypocritical" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/04/what-would-ukraine-russia-peace-deal-look-like