• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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        Obviously you must think that it’s better to make sure hundreds of thousands of people die and millions more have their lives ruined before giving everything to Russia. If Ukraine simply accepted neutrality before the war and implemented Minsk, then it would’ve kept all its territory. Then Ukraine could’ve settled the war back in March last year, but US and UK said no. Now, Ukraine has lost 20% of its territory, and will likely lose a lot more. Yet, the final outcome is going to be the same. Even western propagandists stopped talking about Ukrainian victory at this point.

        And imagine being the kind of absolute psycho who thinks that it’s better for billions of people to die in a nuclear holocaust than for Russia to win in Ukraine. These are the kinds of psychopaths we have here.

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          Obviously you must think that it’s better to make sure hundreds of thousands of people die and millions more have their lives ruined before giving everything to Russia.

          If I take this literally (“before giving everything to Russia”) then yes, it’s obviously better if hundreds of thousands die.

          If you meant to say giving something to Russia, the question then is, what would be enough for Russia? They seem very much like Hitler’s Germany prior to WW2 right now, insofar that they try to reach further and further, and everyone has been just appeasing them. Russia has been involved in 15 wars since 1991, and in most of them Russia has been victorious.

          Can you answer that? What would have been enough for Russia? How can we know that that would have been enough?

          And imagine being the kind of absolute psycho who thinks that it’s better for billions of people to die in a nuclear holocaust than for Russia to win in Ukraine. These are the kinds of psychopaths we have here.

          This line of thinking would set the precedent that nuclear powers can do whatever the fuck they want to do, and everyone who tries or even wants to stop them is guilty of causing nuclear holocaust. Should USA annex South America?

          We have to realize that we’re not talking about taking Russian territory. We’re talking about restoring Ukrainian territory. The only one who is currently at the risk of losing any territory is Ukraine. Nobody is even thinking about taking Russian territory.

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            That’s a fallacious argument based on a false premise. Russia has always been clear that their concern has been NATO expansion. Ukraine would have lost none of its territory had it chose to remain neutral.

            Furthermore, plenty of western experts warned about this literally for decades, yet those concerns were ignored.

            Meanwhile, it’s kind of funny of you to talk about setting some sort of precedent when the west has set it a long time ago.

            Western nations have invaded Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria just to name a few. This was done unilaterally without UN authorization. In fact, Russian playbook in Ukraine is directly modeled on what NATO did in Yugoslavia where they recognized breakaway regions and had them invite NATO for support.

            What you’re essentially saying here is that it’s fine for the west to do these things, but we should bring the world to a brink of a nuclear holocaust when other countries do the same.

            The reality is that the west has no moral high ground here unless western countries change their own behavior.

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              That’s a fallacious argument based on a false premise. Russia has always been clear that their concern has been NATO expansion. Ukraine would have lost none of its territory had it chose to remain neutral.

              Perhaps it’s not so fallacious as you claim. Putin himself wrote a lengthy article (http://en.kremlin.ru/misc/66182) which was basically his version of Anschluß that Hitler used as reasoning for taking Austria in 1938. And Russian leaders have written a lot about how they would like to reverse the dismantling of USSR at least when it comes to territory – but since those nations are now sovereign that would amount to annexing those countries.

              Meanwhile, it’s kind of funny of you to talk about setting some sort of precedent when the west has set it a long time ago.

              I was talking about the precedent of using nuclear weapons to back offensive actions. USA did something like that during Korea in the 50s, but to my knowledge not since. Well ok, there was Trump, but who knows how serious that was.

              Russia has always been clear that their concern has been NATO expansion. Ukraine would have lost none of its territory had it chose to remain neutral.

              Didn’t Ukraine remain neutral about NATO until Russia took Crimea? Only after that they reconsidered that position.

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                Perhaps it’s not so fallacious as you claim. Putin himself wrote a lengthy article (http://en.kremlin.ru/misc/66182) which was basically his version of Anschluß that Hitler used as reasoning for taking Austria in 1938. And Russian leaders have written a lot about how they would like to reverse the dismantling of USSR at least when it comes to territory – but since those nations are now sovereign that would amount to annexing those countries.

                That article doesn’t say what you seem to be claiming here.

                I was talking about the precedent of using nuclear weapons to back offensive actions. USA did something like that during Korea in the 50s, but to my knowledge not since. Well ok, there was Trump, but who knows how serious that was.

                And as you yourself admit the precedent is set by US which is the only country to actually commit such an atrocity. However, the bigger point here whether might makes right, and that’s the rule that the west has consistently followed.

                Didn’t Ukraine remain neutral about NATO until Russia took Crimea? Only after that they reconsidered that position.

                No, Ukraine had a violent coup in 2014 where the legitimate government was overthrown and right wing nationalists took power. Russia annexed Crimea in response to that because the regime that took power started doing these sorts of things to the Russian speaking population:

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          1 year ago

          Who let the Orcs in? There’s something obvious here, but it’s not Russian victory.

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            Just say what you mean, “asiatic hordes”

            Christ the open racism that the reddit migration has brought in is disgusting.

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                Are you having a stroke or trying to talk in code? I just read some other text so I know I’m not having a stroke.