• TheCaconym [any]@hexbear.net
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    They started the whole conflict out of a desire to expand their arbitrary lines in the sand to include ukrainian territory.

    Why do you think Russia invaded, exactly ? they started the whole conflict after decades of making NATO encroachment along their borders a clear red line and being very clear what would happen if it was crossed

    The US still kept meddling in Ukraine (and other post-soviet states), with Russia making every effort short of war to try and stop that - like offering loans just as large as the IMF loans for example, except without asking for the batshit insane austerity measures the latter did

    Then the CIA backed a far-right coup there in 2014, and much of the following years were spent with NATO financing and training nazi soldiers there in preparation of trying to take back Crimea, while breaking the Minsk agreements in the meantime (I’ll pass on the various atrocities and huge reframing of nazi criminals as national heroes in Ukraine there at the same period, since it’s barely related, but it is worth a mention too)

    Now both Ukrainian and Russian people are dying. A peace deal would stop that.

    • cpjoa@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I wonder what part of this is supposed to justify Russia’s indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations

      • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Lolyou think this is “indiscriminate”? Fuck, you should’ve zeen Fallujah or Vietnam or Korea. Ukraine has so much infrastructure and housing left in perfectly usable conditions. One of my major issues at the beginning was that I expected Russia to be much more violent and have been very surprised at how little of the violence has been on non-combatants

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          From what you wrote, do you have a major issue with, in your view, how little violence Russia has inflicted on civilians? Glad that you’re disappointed.

          My point stands. All that blabber does not justify the acts of Russia.

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            No one is justifying the acts of Russia. They should not have invaded! But to act like there is no pretext to conflict and Ukraine is completely innocent is disingenuous. Peace is the better option.

            • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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              All it takes for peace to happen is Russian soldiers turning around and going home.

              Also plenty of your fellow hexbear users are justifying the acts of Russia in the comments up above (and down below).

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              I agree with you that peace is a better option, although I’m pessimistic about the outcome of such talks at this point.

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              Would you like to live in putin’s russia until you die? Because that is what happened to the people in the occupied regions, wheter they like it or not.

              (And please don’t mention the referendum. Between killed, coerced, exiles and fraud it’s a pornographic notion to think you can have a referendum in those conditions.)

              The Ukrainian choice here is not peace vs war, that’s russia’s choice.

              Ukrainians’ choice here is whether to accept to live in putin’s russia by force or to resist his troops’ advances by force and a lot of people in your instance believe that it is up to Ukraine to solve the problem that russia created by accepting putin’s laws (which I guess nobody in your instance would accept, since you are anti-homophobia etc etc)

          • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            Lol fuck you No I’m pleasantly surprised at how little violence against civilians has happened in Ukraine. They never for a moment did the all out war that the US has waged on so many countries. None of that justifies the acts of Russia, but it does mean that your view is so terribly skewed by your western propaganda that I can’t imagine you being right about anything else lol

            But also, you can look into my comment history if you want, for some good explanations on my position on Putin and Russia in this war. I have principles and material analyses. You have vibes

            https://hexbear.net/comment/3746587 An example of a very simple version of why I critically support russia

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      Are you suggesting that Russian aggression is justified because they demanded something of a sovereign nation which was refused?

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      Russia can cry about their red line all they want, but it wasn’t in the treaty. The Revolutions of 1989 made it clear Eastern Europeans weren’t interested in Russian control, the Balkans were unstable, and the Chechen & Georgian wars stoked fear in the former Soviet states. All NATO had to do was open their doors, and again, nothing in the treaty forbade it.