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…since its been two years…
Ten. It’s been ten years and the fact that so many people ignore this unfortunately makes the “Russian assets” argument look all that more legitimate. –It is a dumb argument but people really need to stop acting like this just started in 2022.
I’ve got a peace plan. Russia leaves Ukraine the fuck alone instead of invading, yeah? This world is too fucken much.
Well, this doesn’t look like a realistic peace plan.
Darn, I guess Russia will just have to keep losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers, their last few remaining naval ships, countless war resources, land within their own territory and suffer the consequences of continuing their invasion, like being dealt long range attacks on their territory
They only have about 20-30k dead. Ukraine is like 800,000+
Regardless of death figures that each state puts out consider this. What do both “sides” have to say about which side has air superiority and arms superiority? Now use your brain. Think real hard.Yeah, both Ukrainians and Russians will continue dying, hundreds of thousands if not millions of people :(
I just hope it will end sooner rather than later, although I don’t see a chance of this happening unless somebody assassinates Zelensky or if USA elects Trump and he will keep his wording on ending it.
Very telling that your only assassination recommendation was zelensky and not putin. Followed up by only if trump wins? The only thing trump will do is shut off support to Ukraine because he’s putins fucking tool, just like you apparently
Very telling that your only assassination recommendation was zelensky and not putin.
Because the last time I checked, it’s Zelensky who for the whole duration of the conflict refuses any negotiation, not Putin. It’s Zelensky who turned Ukraine into a mass prison. It’s Zelensky whose regime kidnaps people on the streets and sends them to die.
Followed up by only if trump wins? The only thing trump will do is shut off support to Ukraine
That’s your opinion and nothing more than that. He promised to end the war by forcing both parties to negotiate. But even if he “shuts off support to Ukraine” - this will be the best thing for Ukrainians that happened in the last 3 years. Without western support, Zelensky won’t be able to terrorize Ukrainians anymore.
Turn on English subtitles here and enjoy an ex colonel of AFU (generally an extremely pro-Ukrainian guy btw if you watch his other videos, you can’t claim this being a Russian propaganda ;-) ) talking about current anti-Ukrainian Ukrainian government turning Pokrovsk (and actually the rest of the country too) into a concentration camp: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXSB_WnYV0
Why should the president of an invaded country have to negotiate with the invaders? They can leave and then it’s all over.
Also it’s for you to say only Ukraine is taking people off the street. Putins been throwing prisoners on the front line. He is notorious for locking up any vocal dissenter… sooooo how are you not including him in this equation?
Are you walking about the org that was known as Wagner? They aren’t forced to fight. They do get incentives to fight that’s for sure. They defeated the most hardcore nazis, which we openly support (azov batallion) in Bahkmut.
Why should the president of an invaded country have to negotiate with the invaders? They can leave and then it’s all over.
Are you serious? Do you even know why this war is happening? Ukraine, which we couped in 2014, was killing and still is killing ethnic Russians in the 2 independent republics FOR NO REASON. They also continually plot and execute acts of terrorism against Russia on I’d say a minimum, at least one act every two weeks. Their SBU (their version of CIA) was started by OUR CIA. The feds bragged about it on NYT.
Why should the president of an invaded country have to negotiate with the invaders?
To save lives? And land (the sooner the negotiations start the more land there will be left for Ukraine. If the peace deal was signed at the very beginning, none of the land captured after 2022 would be lost)? Obviously Zelensky doesn’t care about that, as long as he’s pocketing those sweet sweet billions from USA…
They can leave and then it’s all over.
But they aren’t leaving, are they?
Putins been throwing prisoners on the front line.
So funny that you mentioned it :) There was so much coverage about Putin doing this, and very little when Zelensky started doing it.
He is notorious for locking up any vocal dissenter…
And so is Zelensky. He disbanded every party he didn’t like, as a matter of fact he is way more authoritarian dictator than Putin - even if you consider Russia’s elections rigged, Zelensky won’t hold any elections at all.
sooooo how are you not including him in this equation?
Feel free to include him.
It’s just mind blowing for me how much Zelensky terrorizes millions of people, and he is still considered a good guy. I guess it’s easy to glorify Hitler when you are not the one in Auschwitz.
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Sure, I will “get my misinformation the F out of here” as soon as you tell me what exactly is misinformation in my comment? :)
Without western support, Zelensky won’t be able to terrorize Ukrainians anymore.
Yeah, right. Zelensky won’t be able to “terrorize” Ukrainians by resisting an imperialist invasion, and Putin will turn the entire country into a concentration camp run by a Russian stooge, while systematically destroying Ukrainian identity (which is cultural genocide) and strip-mining Ukraine of anything worth stealing.
And when such trustworthy nations as China and Iran, both of whom have been providing weapons to Russia, offer a peace plan, anyone who’s not an idiot will know that the plan rewards the aggressor and demands the capitulation of the victim. Just like China’s “peaceful” intentions towards Taiwan, and their “peaceful” seizure of territory in the Philippines. And we all know what a force for global peace the mad mullahs in Iran have been, when they’re not busy murderously suppressing anti-government demonstrations by their own people.
Then Putin will go on to similarly “liberate” the Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Moldovans, Georgians, and if Trump sufficiently undermines NATO, Poland too.
Yeah, right. Zelensky won’t be able to “terrorize” Ukrainians by resisting an imperialist invasion
Oh yeah, because it’s Zelensky who is resisting this “imperialist invasion”, right? It’s him, his family, his friends who are dying in the meatgrinder.
Oh wait, no it is not, he is flying around the world giving speeches about freedom, democracy and all that stuff, all while Ukrainians are imprisoned in the country and kidnapped from the streets and sent to die.and Putin will turn the entire country into a concentration camp
Tell me more about those concentration camps. Tell me about concentration camps in Crimea? Tell me about the ones in Melitopol? Tell me, how Ukrainians who are on liberated territories are forced to stay there, how they are not free to leave at any moment (in contrast to those who are on Ukraine controlled territories)? I would love to know more about it.
Why are you fedposting??? Btw I live in Taiwan and they don’t actually want to invade. There’s a thing called face and they need to deal with.
Because Russia just invaded out of nowhere, right?
Yes that is indeed what happened.
Well you’re just stupid then
I might be, but lets put that to the side, why did russia invade ukraine?
If you’re actually curious and have 20 minutes, try this video: Ukraine: The Avoidable War
Demonstrate a good faith attempt to answer the question yourself. It’s been two years.
You’re the one that asked the question, “Because Russia just invaded out of nowhere, right?” It’s clearly your turn to answer here.
I wasn’t signing a contract to provide a service. I was mocking you for being oblivious/dishonest.
NATO expansion
Sovereign countries can’t choose their allies? Really? When long-time neutral countries have decided that not even being neutral will protect them anymore from invasion, your answer is that they should be invaded?
Russia has the world’s largest land mass of any country, and the longest border. And they think they’re entitled buffer states all along that border? How is that in the interest of the people in those neighboring states? Most of them have already experienced the joys of having a Russian boot on their neck, and have voted with their feet to control their own destinies instead.
No, you can’t just place NATO missiles on the border just like the US freaked out about the Cuban missile crisis, which ironically was the USSR just retaliating because we placed missiles close to them in the first place.
Also another reason for the war is that we directed Ukraine to kill their ethnic Russians in the 2 independent republics. Putin complained to the UN but nobody would listen. Also we couped their government in 2014. https://youtu.be/L2XNN0Yt6D8
Sovereign countries can’t choose their allies? Really? When long-time neutral countries have decided that not even being neutral will protect them anymore from invasion, your answer is that they should be invaded?
History started only in the 2000s for you. I understand.
NATO expansion
Which is not real. I am saddened you choose to believe in it.
NATO expansion
Which is not real. I am saddened you choose to believe in it.
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(via this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO …which will presumably amaze you)
Any kind of context is for nerds I guess?
He and I already gave context upthread, but here it is again.
- NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard: U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
- Robert Parry, 2015: The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
- Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
I’m just happy there’s no mental gymnastics anymore about them being the invader. That’s something
Hey look who peeked their nose outside of their mind palace
Wat
What part am I explaining?
Preferably your whole comment
What do I get out of it?
While it’s true that Russia could just stop their invasion and leave and that’d be that, it’s not likely to happen. I really doubt they are willing to give up any of their conquered land.
Are you trolling or uninformed? Maiden coup by the US? Murder of tens of thousands of ethnic Russians in the independent republics? Continual NATO overreach which Putin complained about to the UN multiple times?
My favorite pastime is swapping the word Ukraine with Palestine:
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Palestinians are not capable of defeating Israel. They need to make concessions with Israel and come to a peace agreement and two state solution. Palestinians should not fight back to recapture all their land. Israel will keep their word they are good for it.
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Compromise? Ukraine needs to push every last Russian out of Crimea and recapture all their land! Who cares if they will win, fight till the last Ukrainian!
Yes because Russia only exists because of the UK giving the land from whatever-brown-people
Russia only exists in its present form because the Russians subjugated 190 other nationalities in a centuries-long imperialist expansion.
And the US?
bad fedpost is bad. stop supporting genocide.
That last one a depressingly common perspective among people in power in Ukraine, including Zelensky.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/5/zelenskyy-says-wants-ukraine-to-become-a-big-israel
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Can you explain why supporting US interests in the middle east is bad (among others arms sales in “Israel”), but supporting US interests in Ukraine (arms sales, privatization) is good somehow?
Free Palestine, Fuck NATO.
Oh so you don’t care about the people then, got it. You don’t care about the invaded people. If your stance is anti US, you are happy. Even if that’s a trash stance, at least you are consistent I guess.
The INVADED PEOPLE? Holy fuck man. Ukraine under our directions were and still are killing them by the tens of thousands!!! Are you a comic book villain or what? To this day, Ukraine is launching suicide drones and missiles at their (own) civilian population in the independent republics.
You don’t care about the invaded people.
Putting just randomly invading Ukraine. No interests, no security concerns, no geopolitics involved, am I right?
Oh so you don’t care about the people then, got it.
Oh so you don’t care about Israelis, just letting the Palestinians take hostages, got it.
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Aren’t those all allied with each other and Russia? Should be a given that they support each other in this.
Jamecia backs New Zeland-Madagascar peace plan for Ukraine! Who cares!
Jamecia backs New Zeland-Madagascar peace plan for Ukraine! Who cares!
Oh right, OP probably forgot that only USA can have a say on the matter of international politics.
This post should immediately be removed and we need to go back to parroting “the whole world supports whatever USA supports”.The myth of consensual peace deals…
“Isn’t there somebody you forget to ask?” 🇺🇸🦅
I mean Ukraine probably
Chine sure has some weight on Russia and international weight to throw around but I don’t think Brazil or Iran have that much. USA backing the same plan as China probably would force Ukraine and Russia to the table tbh.
Realistically, the US stopping their proxy war on Russia spells the death of NATO and US hedgemony. Eventually I see Europe uncouping itself and aligning with BRICS.
I’m not sure how it spells any of that. Russian aggression actually managed to reverse the increasing irrelevancy of NATO and bring new members and new sense of unity. Russia doing the NATO PR basically.
You’re on the wrong side of Lemmy for these kinds of opinions. Over here Ukraine is the aggressor and the global south are a beacon of hope for the future of mankind. Puked a little in my mouth just typing that.
They might not like the word aggressor for describing Russian invasion but surely they see how Russian, let’s say “unwanted entry”, caused NATO to seem a lot more relevant to many countries.
No one that matters cares about what either of those 3 countries has to say. Ukraine will continue to be supported by the west and Russia will continue to suffer the consequences of their actions.
The world has changed grandpa. China is a superpower, Iran is a major regional power and Brazil has a lot of attractive people.
and Brazil has a lot of attractive people.
I don’t know if I should be angry with this statement but thank you
China has been a super power, Iran is an ass backwards country and if the only thing positive you can think to say about Brazil is they’ve got hot people then oof. Are they not the highest gdp country of south america?
No one that matters cares about what either of those 3 countries has to say.
Right, I’m sorry, silly me, I forgot that people outside of North America (and maybe Europe and a few more countries) don’t matter (I’m not sure if we can even call them people).
Ukraine will continue to be supported by the west
Yeah, this one is unfortunately true, the west will continue holding Ukrainians hostage in the mass prison that is Ukraine now and kidnapping them from the streets to fight their proxy war. I can only hope that this won’t last much longer :(
Ukrainians don’t want to be subjugated by Russia though. Once they want to stop, it stops. Russia could’ve of course not started the whole thing and could stop it at any time without it being an existential threat to them.
Ukrainians don’t want to be subjugated by Russia though.
Don’t want to have Zelensky’s concentration camps either.
I don’t know what that is, I was just saying that that’s why they’re still fighting the invader. Can’t stop fighting without Russia subjugating them.
I don’t know what that is
Well, you can listen (or rather read English subtitles) here about what it is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXSB_WnYV0
I was just saying that that’s why they’re still fighting the invader. Can’t
Who are they? The people that are mass imprisoned, either trying to escape the country or afraid leaving their homes because they are afraid of being kidnapped by ТЦК?? They are not fucking fighting, they are being forced to to the front lines by Zelensky’s regime.
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Ukraine is the only one suffering the consequences of the “west’s” actions here my friend.
Russia has lost a lot of lives in that war too. Not that there’s much sympathy there, they are the ones who attacked Ukraine, but still
Because it was the west that decided to invade in 2014, it was the west that made Ukraine feel so fucking vulnerable for 8 years that they decided to turn into NATO, and then it was the west again who sent tanks into Kiev. Yeah.
I’m not blind to not see that this benefits the US, but honestly, it looks like an opportunity for the west, not something they provoked. If Russia didn’t want the west to benefit so much from it maybe they shouldn’t have had invaded in 2014 because the people of a separate sovereign country revolted against the Russian puppet President.
Yeah, so it’s the west that’s been bombing, shooting and raping civilians in Ukraine? How could I have not noticed that before?
And you are not my friend.
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You don’t live in reality.
A peace deal proposed by arms suppliers to one of the parties in the conflict just might be a bit one-sided, don’t you think?
