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Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Why is this so difficult?

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Why is this so difficult?

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Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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    Love to save ukrainian children by dragging the war on, making it deadlier and deadlier.

    As Obama said, “Russia will always have escalatory dominance in the region”

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      A war with better armed Ukraine would be shorter.

      We could make Russian dominance in the region history, just like the myth of their military competence is history.

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        A war with better armed Ukraine would be shorter.

        We could make Russian dominance in the region history, just like the myth of their military competence is history.

        The “west” is running out of stockpiled munitions at this point.

        As Obama said, Russia will always have escalatory dominance in Ukraine. The Biden administration is just dragging out a loss.

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        After two years, it’s pretty clear that the west is not capable of doing anything of the sort. All the west managed to achieve was to ensure that hundreds of thousands of people died, and that Ukraine lost large parts of its territory in the process. We now have admissions from Ukrainian negotiators that a peace deal was close to being reached last March before the west sabotaged it.

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          That would have been a peace deal that would have meant further hostilities down the line a few years later.

          The main problem with the west is that they believe they can make a deal with Russia that they are going to honor. The truth is that Russia honors the deals when it suits them and breaks them the moment it’s useful. Any negotiation is and will always be seen as weakness from the Russian side.

          As their propagandist said “We are Russian. We want the world. All of it if possible.”

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            This is just far right bullshit. They made a peace deal and Nazi Ukraine immediate reneged on it as soon as Russia left Kiev. The ignorance here is astounding.

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            The actual truth is that it’s NATO that’s been constantly expanding towards Russia. It’s also NATO that’s been invading and destroying countries since the end of USSR. Syria, Libya, and Yugoslavia being some prominent examples.

            Meanwhile, Russia tried to resolve this situation diplomatically since 2008 with Minsk agreements that western leaders now openly admit were a delaying tactic by the west.

            Finally, section IX of Ukraine’s 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty states the following:

            The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs and adheres to three nuclear free principles: to accept, to produce and to purchase no nuclear weapons.

            The whole legal basis for the existence of state of Ukraine is predicated on Ukraine staying neutral and not joining military blocs. Ukraine broke the very basis of this agreement when it tried to join NATO.

            Now, thanks to western “help”, Ukraine will lose far more territory than it would have if the deal was done last year, and it may even cease to exist as a state. I can’t wait for you to explain how this actually helps people of Ukraine.

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              The actual truth is that it’s NATO that’s been constantly expanding towards Russia. It’s also NATO that’s been invading and destroying countries since the end of USSR. Syria, Libya, and Yugoslavia being some prominent examples.

              False equivalence. Former USSR countries that joined NATO, did so to protect themselves from future Russian aggression. Like the one we now see in Ukraine. Intervention in Yugoslavia was to prevent atrocities and Syria and Libya had their own problems and dictatorships, which Russia tried to prop up and the West wanted to end.

              Meanwhile, Russia tried to resolve this situation diplomatically since 2008 with Minsk agreements that western leaders now openly admit were a delaying tactic by the west.

              Western leaders? Name them.

              The whole legal basis for the existence of state of Ukraine is predicated on Ukraine staying neutral and not joining military blocs.

              It is in fact the opposite. No neutral country stays that way for long when Russia wants it’s territory.

              Ukraine broke the very basis of this agreement when it tried to join NATO.

              Because Russia attacked them.

              Now, thanks to western “help”, Ukraine will lose far more territory than it would have if the deal was done last year, and it may even cease to exist as a state. I can’t wait for you to explain how this actually helps people of Ukraine.

              If the West had not helped, there would be no Ukraine either. We would be condemning them to a decade of guerilla warfare and oppression. Emboldened by his victory, Putin would look further west.

              Ukrainians now fight Russia, both sides are getting exhausted and it all depends on what help Ukraine gets. Your magical peace treaty would just mean Russia trying this again in 5 years or less.

              You could have used the same arguments to make peace with the Nazis in 1941 and the world would only be worse for it.

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                False equivalence.

                It’s not.

                Because Russia attacked them.

                No, Ukraine has been engaged in atrocities in Donbas since 2014 as even western media reported at the time.

                It is in fact the opposite. No neutral country stays that way for long when Russia wants it’s territory.

                I see you have problems with reading comprehension.

                If the West had not helped, there would be no Ukraine either. We would be condemning them to a decade of guerilla warfare and oppression. Emboldened by his victory, Putin would look further west.

                If the west didn’t run a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government then there would’ve been no troubles in Ukraine. Period.

                Ukrainians now fight Russia, both sides are getting exhausted and it all depends on what help Ukraine gets. Your magical peace treaty would just mean Russia trying this again in 5 years or less.

                That’s complete and utter nonsense, and even western media now admits this.

                You could have used the same arguments to make peace with the Nazis in 1941 and the world would only be worse for it.

                Now that’s what actual false equivalence looks like.

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                  No, Ukraine has been engaged in atrocities in Donbas since 2014 as even western media reported at the time.

                  Russian propaganda talking point.

                  If the west didn’t run a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government then there would’ve been no troubles in Ukraine. Period.

                  Euromaidan was not a coup.

                  That’s complete and utter nonsense, and even western media now admits this.

                  Cite sources for the first point and military strategy analysts for the second.

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                    Russian propaganda talking point.

                    Ah yes, Russian propaganda point as reported by CNN back in 2014 https://twitter.com/paulius60/status/1611148483859255296

                    There’s even an hour long documentary from France on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN68OfFKaWs

                    Pretending this just didn’t happen is the height of intellectual dishonesty.

                    Euromaidan was not a coup.

                    Yes, it was and there’s overwhelming evidence for it.

                    Cite sources for the first point and military strategy analysts for the second.

                    Are you just incapable of using google, I guess that would explain why you believe in nonsense. Here you go. First of all Russian economy is now rapidly growing while the west is going into a recession. This is not a country that’s showing any signs of being exhausted:

                    • https://www.newsweek.com/how-russia-won-sanctions-war-west-opinion-1861645
                    • https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russias-q3-gdp-growth-confirmed-55-rosstat-2023-12-13/
                    • https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russian-factory-activity-expands-fastest-pace-seven-years-dec-pmi-2023-12-29/

                    and here’s some recent mainstream media reporting on the state of the war for you to chew on

                    • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war.html
                    • https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/time-diplomacy-ukraine-italys-defence-minister-says-2024-01-10/
                    • https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/dans-l-est-de-l-ukraine-l-angoisse-d-une-debacle-05-01-2024-2549049_24.php
                    • https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/27/ukrainian-soldiers-trained-abroad-express-discontent-i-repeatedly-told-them-nato-manuals-didn-t-apply_6140349_4.html
                    • https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ukraine-krieg-kiews-problem-mit-den-deutschen-pannen-panzern-a-cd9421ae-4a96-4d4f-983a-6205a063ae15
                    • https://archive.is/8FXrT#selection-391.0-391.73
                    • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/27/russia-electronic-warfare-turn-tide-war-ukraine/
                    • https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/europe/ukraine-war-victory-hopes-dim-intl/index.html
                    • https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-russia-congress-europe-1.7067232

                    and here’s some analysis from military strategists for you

                    • https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/whats-ahead-war-ukraine
                    • https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukraine
                    • https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russias-artillery-war-ukraine-challenges-and-innovations

                    Russia will win this war, and the only thing the west has achieved was to help destroy Ukraine by sabotaging negotiations in 2022.

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              NATO is a defense agreement. I know I’m on a Russian-apologist instance, but you guys are huffing Russian glue every time you parrot the propaganda of NATO being a threat to Russia.

              By definition, NATO is only a threat to Russia if Russia threatens to expand, full stop.

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                NATO is an aggressive alliance that has invaded and destroyed numerous countries. The fact that you keep pretending that it’s a defensive alliance just shows how utterly dishonest you are.

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                  Want to share a source on that? Or are you making shit up?

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                    Share a source for NATO invading Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, is that what you’re asking there little buddy?

            • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              nations are not forcer to join nato

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                🤡

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                  Removed by mod

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                    I see somebody is projecting

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                Well, they are forced by Russia. That should kinda do the opposite. Well, whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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