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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Fears of peace talks

What kind of bullshit Orwellian headline is this? Peace is GOOD, stopping the bloodshed is GOOD. We WANT less people to die.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Somebody think of the Lockheed shareholders!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Poor bastards need more stock buy backs

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Inb4 "acksually killing thousands over lines in the sand is good" rhetoric

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Too late, that shit is all over this post already

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

A real mask off moment there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The only reason I opened the article, "whatchu mean fear of peace talks?!"

Like I get it, Ukraine shouldn't capitulate. But ending the bloodshed is a good thing, surely.

[–] Apollo 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To what end though? Freeze the border where it is now and give Russia another few years to build up force for round 3?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I suppose that's up to Ukraine, right? They're the ones fighting so it makes sense for them to decide what terms they'd be willing to accept.

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

So, you didn't read the article? The fear is not about peace talks, it's about support from the US forcing them while Ukraine is making progress.

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

The issue is that we've already tried the whole peace thing before. Remember the Budapest Memorandum? The Minsk Protocol & Minsk II? The Partition & Friendship Treaties?

I feel like the heart of the issue is that Russia doesn't want peace. If it did, we would not be here in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The fear is that there is pressure for peace talk conditions to be less than fair to Ukraine, that this would be little more than appeasement of Russia, like what happened with Czechoslovakia in the 1930s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The hill is a pretty conservative outlet but this is a disturbing headline for sure. The only way to end the war is with peace talks, there is no other option. The better Ukraine does on the ground the better they will do in the negotiations.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Always pay attention to the commenter‘s instance. All three above are hexbear users, so expect a heavy pro russian stance.