• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I don’t even know what this means because it has no grounding in reality.

    They can’t negotiate peace because they are in a war? How is it possible to resolve this conflict in any realistic way if thats the criteria?

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      1 year ago

      Ideally by standing down. Again, they arent in their own nation.

      Lets change perspectives here. Lets go back in time to the British colonialist and the native Americans. Are the natives supposed to just do nothing?

      The victims ought not be expected to let the perpetrators continue to harm them

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        1 year ago

        Your way of conceptializing this is so childlike as to be useless.

        I want the war in Ukraine to end. I want them to negotiate the best and most obvious solution to this conflict for the parties involved. I want the war to end because then people will not be getting killed.

        You want NATO to keep supporting Ukraine, to keep Ukraine away from negotiating. You want this, because… i don’t know why.

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          I’m saying the Ukrainians should not be expected to negotiate, given that it is their land being invaded. If Putin doesn’t like that, he can pound sand and leave.

          If someone invades your house, you wouldn’t just given them a room and bath to have them clam down.

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            1 year ago

            If Putin doesn’t like that, he can pound sand and leave.

            Or he can keep grinding Ukrainians that are poisoning their own soil with mines, cluster ammo and depleted uranium because I assure you Ukraine isn’t winning this and even their NATO backers are announcing it now that the “spring counter-offensive” has failed.

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            If someone invades your house, you wouldn’t just given them a room and bath to have them clam down.

            I sure am glad that libs are aware that international relations are complex issues that cannot be boiled down to household analogies. It sure would be frustrating if they tried to make this into some simple black/white scenario with good guys and bad guys separated from material reality and historical context