mgnome

Did you read these articles yourself?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_in_Russia_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

The main targets have been the military, the arms industry and the oil industry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_negotiations_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

In January 2024, Putin again made statements which suggested, according to the Institute for the Study of War, that his "maximalist objectives in Ukraine" remained unchanged, "which are tantamount to full Ukrainian and Western surrender". He again called for the overthrow of the Ukrainian government.

It's not that I didn't know any of these, it's just that you just provided sources that debunk your own arguments.

Just few weeks ago Putin said in a speech (rough translation):

Russia is where Russian soldiers foot stepped.

Which is like, one of most fascist things I've ever heard. I'll even provide Russian source:

https://topwar.ru/266695-tam-gde-stupaet-noga-russkogo-soldata-nashe-putin-podcherknul-chto-rossija-ne-trebuet-kapituljacii-ukrainy.html

Not to mention Russian denial of the very existence of Ukrainian identity and statehood, which he also did in that same speech.

Man, just read these sources, because you're repeating Taco Don's rhetoric about "kids fighting in a sandbox".

Can you elaborate on Ukrainian salvos please? And also - on Russian peace proposals too.

No, Ukraine did not have any great "score" earlier as with operation "Spiderweb" to "provoke" such attack.

It was just our Constitution Day yesterday. Just so people here understand what Russians mean by "root causes of conflict".

Yesterday was Ukrainian Constitution Day, and that is the main reason the attack of that scale happened. Just so some folks get the idea.

If we don't see dramatic changes in how our allies treat Russia (and I mean much harsher approaches and not plans on how to work with Russia after the war) - "getting the hell outta here" will be on todo list for just about any Ukrainian, including veterans and people viable for service, not just kids.

I'm more than sure that climate change will negatively impact the economy.

So I'd just say that there is something for shareholders (not to mention investment opportunities in green technologies), it's just that some people greedy shits who don't think about what happens in future.

Some of us reading this, will probably be alive for the first "Ow my balls!" episode.

I believe that Iran deserves better. I know few Iranians and they are actually cool people, who just happened to live under the yoke of folks who believe that earthquakes happen because women wear jeans.

But as much as I'd love to see Iran change for the better, I absolutely wouldn't trust US and Israel to make that change - they'll just dismantle the state and leave it in ruins Iraq-style.

When Moscow isn't silent about its attacks on our civilians - it gets even worse, just remember how they claimed that children's clinic "Okhmatdyt" was a military hospital.

Not to mention how some Telegram z-bloggers sometimes say quiet part out loud and cheer for Ukrainian kids getting killed because "they'll grow to be nationalists anyway".

That's a really bad take.

Yes, people on previously Soviet-occupied territories that were occupied by Germans in WW2 often first met nazis with flowers as liberators, and even captured Soviet generals would at first slip some words that were quite critical of Soviet leadership.

But, as time passed on, the attitudes changed, so there was increase in guerilla activity and also some initial collaborators became rebels. That is simply because people started realizing how nazis were worse than anything.

I'll say most Ukrainians wish both sides "best of luck" (source: I'm Ukrainian) - to Israel because they supplied Lancet and Orlan technologies to Russia, to Iran because they supplied Shaheds and ballistic missiles to Russia, so these things are what directly impacted our lives and made them much worse.

As for why Zelensky sings praises for Taco Don from time to time - I don't believe that latter one can be swayed to help Ukraine (and Zelensky probably doesn't believe that too) but there's still Congress, that is somewhat cooperative from time to time, and we really need these sanctions that Taco Don now tries to delay and dilute.