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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (31 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (30 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (29 children)

It'll stop when Russia leaves.

Edit: anyone who supports Russia is a fascist. Follow your Leader.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think it is realistic that Russia will unilaterally pull out? The war will end when Russia leaves, but Russia isn't going to leave until they are pushed out, negotiations are had, or Ukraine is destroyed. The first possibility is becoming increasingly more unlikely, and the last is something that nobody should want

That leaves negotiations. I think Ukraine should come to the table while they still have some leverage, which is decreasing every week that they throw their men into the meat grinder without meaningful gains.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It doesn’t leave only negotiations. Russia tried for 10+ years in Afghanistan. The US the same, there and in Vietnam. There is such as giving up and going home. That’s the “win” a small state can inflict on a large one. I don’t think that’s where Ukraine and Russia is headed, but there’s a quick for Ukraine and a slow “win” for Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Wait, so your ideal is instead of negotiations, in the same vein as Afghanistan, Ukraine experiences this horrible war for another 9 years and then becomes a state ruled by the fighters involved in the war with the most extremist far right ideology rule it as a theocracy? To be clear that ideology in this case is Nazism.

You don't sound like an ally of the Ukrainian people.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah why negotiate now while we still have hundreds of thousands of lives to throw into the meat grinder.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, that's exactly Putin's reasoning. Glad you figured that out.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

You're in a thread about Ukraines failed counteroffensive

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You don't make any sense man. I feel like you're all red in the face when you write these nonsensical replies.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So in your mind there's no situation where ukraine doesn't win this war?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure there’s a real risk Ukraine isn’t winning this war. But there’s never been a war where there’s absolute certainty one side will win, until we get to the “downfall” times.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you think they should just keep sending conscripts to die until the downfall times or until Russia just decides to leave?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think Russia should keep sending conscripts to die or should they just leave?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They can just keep sending missiles and artillery shells to die, they've got the initiative rn

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