• Ooops@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Well… he isn’t wrong. It is indeed completely irrational to fight 17 months, lose hundred thousand+ soldiers, most of your somewhat modern equipment and damage your economy for decades to come while proving to be incapable of even remotely reaching the goals set for just a 3-day-long invasion. And Russia should finally pack up, go home and end this shit show.

    And now let’s wait for his brilliant plan to actually get Russia to wake up from their insane fever dream and delusion of grandeur… That is his plan, isn’t it? *cough*

    • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      It is indeed completely irrational to fight 17 months, lose hundred thousand+ soldiers, most of your somewhat modern equipment and damage your economy for decades to come while proving to be incapable of even remotely reaching the goals set

      But enough about Ukraine’s performance in this war…

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        Which part of this is Ukraine, exactly? The “irrational” fighting, the “somewhat modern equipment”, or the “incapable of reaching the goals set”? Because afaik, Ukraine is still standing, fighting with modern equipment, and with unwavering support for future reconstruction from its allies

        Try to keep the response coherent

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      The only person who said 3 days was some random US general, why are y’all using it as some sort of gotcha?

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    Hey Andres, if the USA would invade and annex the Yucatán Peninsula (Cancún) how would you feel if some country on the other side of the world ask you to stop the fight and just talk to the USA? … yeah, right.

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      By that logic the entirety of America should declare unending war against the United States. Doesn’t sound that terrible if you ask me, but isn’t exactly the “humanitarian” approach.

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      Yucatán doesn’t have Americans living in it.

      In fact America did invade and annex parts of Mexico. Why do you think half of California has Spanish names?

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    Uh, yeah, the thing about that? Russia wants concessions Ukraine will not give. It would also embolden the Duma and quite frankly they deserve all the L’s they can get.

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    Then push Russia to withdraw from Ukraine and pay reparations for the damage they’ve done. The only thing irrational about this war is that Russia started it and keeps acting like it’s justified.

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    YEah I don’t care but diplomacy would be nice. You can’t sell me a war.

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    Given Angela Merkel said outloud that minsk negotiations were a delaying tactic, what incentive is there to negotiate?

    A ceasefire would be great. Which is why you don’t use negotiations cynically.

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    I don’t want Ukraine to be occupied by Russia , but I also don’t want Ukraine to join NATO.

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      I feel like that’s a decision for the Ukrainian people. Our wants don’t enter into it.

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        it would be interesting to see how perspective on joining NATO has changed since the collapse of USSR. in 1991 what was opinion, in 2023 what is opinon.