• Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I think Ukraine should negotiate for the best peace settlement it can get, and take it. You strawmanning me into thinking something else isnt really surprising, but it is disappointing that none of you delusional bloodthirsty armchair generals can even handle a differing perspective. This is further proved by your failure to answer a single one of my questions, instead once again choosing to soapbox to some imagined audience. Answer my questions you weak-willed little ingrate.

    A counteroffensive is Ukraine’s prerogative, right, and in many senses an obligation.

    Obligation??? They’re obligated to throw thousands to their death? Fuck you, go volunteer. That’s your obligation. You have a moral obligation to go fight for Ukraine, you obviously think it is wrong for Russia to invade, so you are obligated to go do your duty in Ukraine. Or are you a coward, only willing to cheer on the death of others in a far away land?
    You’re doing the Shrek meme, but unironically.
    Go give your life for the cause you snivelling little coward. You have an obligation to fight for glorious Ukraine.

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      I think Ukraine should negotiate for the best peace settlement it can get, and take it

      And what do you imagine that settlement would be, other than a complete surrender of every square kilometer of their land, their people, and their lives?

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        You’re just making shit up instead of looking at Russia’s stated, implied, and material goals.

        a complete surrender of every square kilometer of their land

        Russia doesn’t want to annex all of Ukraine. There’s nothing for them in the north. At the very most they would annex Novorossiya, but if Ukraine were to go to the negotiating table right now they likely would get away with only losing the four oblasts that Russia already annexed, plus Crimea ofc. Aside from that land, Russia wants guarantees that Ukraine will stay out of NATO and the EU.

        their people, and their lives

        There is absolutely no evidence that Russia wants to or is carrying out a genocide of Ukrainians. There has been no rhetoric from Russia that the Ukrainian ethnicity as a whole are some untermensch and/or threat to society that needs to be removed. In fact there’s been the opposite, that Ukrainians are their brothers, “little Russians”. The only genocidal/ethnic cleansing rhetoric I’ve seen has been from Ukraine’s side, celebrating when a random Russian civilian is killed by a shark, calling all Russians “orcs”, wanting to remove Russian civilians from Crimea (who have been living there long before it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954), anti-Russian language laws which Human Rights Watch reported concerns about just a month before the invasion.

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        Jesus Christ where do you people get these ideas from? Do you never go check anything for yourselves? Is your worldview shaped by scary bedtime stories told by your nana The Us State Department?
        When has Russia ever claimed it wanted to annex all of Ukraine? Why would it even?? Why would it want to occupy a large region that would resist it’s rule, why would it want to get embroiled in countless territory conflicts and battle out hundreds of mini quagmires, when it could just annex the autonomous regions that do not have these issues?
        https://hexbear.net/comment/3845791

        Now answer my questions you unimaginative impotent rat. Get off your condescending dead rhetorical horse and answer my questions, if you have any intellectual integrity.

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          Do you never go check anything for yourselves?

          If I did that I wouldn’t be sitting here looking like a misinformed jackass, now would I?

          Is your worldview shaped by scary bedtime stories told by your nana The Us State Department?

          State dept, US and western-sympathetic media

          When has Russia ever claimed it wanted to annex all of Ukraine?

          I think Putin wants a Lukashenko in Ukraine.

          why would it want to get embroiled in countless territory conflicts and battle out hundreds of mini quagmires, when it could just annex the autonomous regions that do not have these issues?

          I feel like I’m missing something here because the “autonomous regions” are where these battles and quagmires are occurring.

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            Thank you for your response. I appreciate it, and I apologize for the hostility.

            I feel like I’m missing something here because the “autonomous regions” are where these battles and quagmires are occurring.

            You are correct. However the fighting has been occurring in these regions since 2014 due to their high number of russian separatists. Those regions would likely be relatively stable as memberstates of Russia - as well due to these high number of ukrainian russianspeakers. Other regions of Ukraine which have been relatively stable as parts of Ukraine, would likely not be stable as parts of Russia. These regions would then become unstable autonomus quagmires.

            Finally: If you think Ukraine has a moral obligation to fight to the last, why do you think you are not obligated to go there and fight yourself? If Russia is an evil imperialist country, why does standing up to them not go across borders? We are supplying Ukraine with weapons and armaments and equipment and training, and the country is welcoming (begging for) volunteers. All the manpower it can get it needs, so why do you think you’re exempt? If you are so invested in the course of this war, if you believe there is a moral obligation, why do you think yourself not to be obligated?

            Edit: I’ve since seen your apology. You do not have to answer the last question if you don’t want to

      • I’m just curious – why are you so concerned with the nation-state of Ukraine maintaining its border, at apparently any cost? You virtue signal all day long that you’re just concerned for the poor Ukranians, and yet you seem to conflate land, people, and constructed imaginary borders like they’re interchangeable. Does “surrender of every square kilometer of their land” mean the same as them “losing their lives?” Is there a giant killswitch that just obliterates every inhabitant of a country when the arbitrary name associated with that land changes?

        The point is this: I’ve got cousins fighting on the frontlines who can’t wait to get the fuck out of that warzone, and you seem to have more of a perfectly liberal, purely aesthetic disgust for the idea of land changing ownership than you do for the notion of hundreds of thousands of people dying in a fucking trench in a needless war.

        Fuck Putin, fuck Zelensky, fuck Ukraine and fuck Russia, fuck the United States, and fuck the bourgeois scum who pump out all the vile propaganda you’re regurgitating, that tell you a piece of land is worth more than your family’s life.