• tobogganablaze@lemmus.org
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    7 months ago

    Of course. Every single country acts out of self-interest 100% of the time. That’s how countries work.

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      7 months ago

      Albeit you are right, the USA spent 2 years propagandising seemingly 24/7 to everyone that they weren’t. And if you thought that they were, despite you being correct, Normies would call you a “Putin Puppet,” or something related for your trouble.

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      7 months ago

      I think the reason for the post is to point out that continuing the funding of the war in Ukraine only serves to kill more ukrainians and the only benefit is Western foreign policy goals.

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          7 months ago

          I am just going to the natural result of what he is saying and the material facts on the ground.

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            7 months ago

            If Ukrainians don’t fight, they will just be taken by Russia to fight in the next war after they are conquered, just like the Chechens are being used to fight Ukrainians today.

            So they will be dying in war either way, the only question is if they will die fighting against Russia or fighting against another innocent country that Russia wants to conquer next.

            Moldova, then Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, then Poland. Each population being genocided in the war against the next, just like Chechens are today in Ukraine.

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              7 months ago

              That is the propaganda they tell you to support the war. The other option is to negotiate peace like they did in spring of 2022 before the west got involved.

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                Yes, just like we did with Hitler after he annexed the Sudetenland.

                You’d think that after Russia’s invasion and annexation of land in Georgia, Moldova, Chechnya, and now Ukraine, people would wake the fuck up and start to see the pattern here, but I guess not.

                Putin’s government has very clearly stated their desire to conquer these territories out loud and in public. But somehow people like you continue to think that we can just allow them to conquer land of neighboring countries and somehow they will magically stop all of a sudden when we negotiate.

                Yes, they will stop long enough to rebuild their army for the next conquest.

                Why don’t you just take them at their word rather than making some some fantasy about them?

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                  Then we have two options:

                  1. Russia is having a hard time taking over Ukraine, so obviously it cant take over a bunch of other countries.

                  2. Russia is strong and we are using dead Ukrainians to weaken them so they cant take over more countries.

                  Which one is it?

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                    7 months ago

                    Russia is easily strong enough to take Ukraine and really all of Europe if the West does nothing. And at that point they will have a bigger GDP and 2-3 times the population of the US, so no reason to stop there. Which is the whole reason the US started NATO in the first place.

                    The West has done just enough to prevent that from happening. If the West withdrew all their support and just relied on the the goodness of Putin’s heart, the US would be standing alone in direct conflict with Russia (owning Europe) , China (owning most of Asia), Iran, and North Korea within a decade. And they’d have a less than half the production and less than 20% of the population with which to do it.

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        7 months ago

        It doesn’t only serve to kill Ukrainians and only to benefit Western foreign policy goals. It also serves to keep Ukraine independent from Russia, which is saving Ukrainians and Ukrainian culture from oppression and genocide.

        The Ukrainians are happy to be receiving Western support. They’re not mindless puppets, they’re choosing to continue to resist Russian invasion. They have their reasons for not wanting to be ruled by Putin.

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          The issue is that Ukraine cant win and the West knows it.

          They’re not mindless puppets, they’re choosing to continue to resist Russian invasion.

          What percent of their army is conscripted?

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            The issue is that Ukraine cant win and the West knows it.

            Oh, right, Russia will be in Kiev in three days. Forgot about how unstoppable the Russian military is.

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              Cool, but I dont care about Russia being wrong with their predictions, what I know is that Ukraine losing is a foregone conclusion at this point. Its not like I enjoy people losing parts of their country, but its just reality. And the most important part was how many ukrainians are conscripted to fight.

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                Cool, but I dont care about Russia being wrong with their predictions, what I know is that Ukraine losing is a foregone conclusion at this point.

                Their first prediction about how they were totally going to win was wrong. But their current prediction that they’re totally going to win is ironclad. Sure.

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                7 months ago

                And lots of russian popular warharks on tv, come on, no need to be deliberately obtuse just because Russia’s latest colonialism efforts have encountered problems.