• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    …escalating the proxy war against Russia…

    So, comrade, how much of Ukraine should surrender for about 6 years of “peace” with Russia?

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      8 months ago

      The portions of Ukraine that Western Ukraine was shelling before the invasion.

      The lines have hardly moved in a year, despite thousands more dead and millions more displaced. Every bomb we send is a bad day for someone, statistically mostly civilians. To send more bombs is to sacrifice more people, for the same geopolitical outcome.

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      8 months ago

      I for one wouldn’t have used unrest as a chance to do a coup. But if I did, I wouldn’t have planned who to install in what positions over an unsecure line.

      And so, Ukraine would have stayed a democracy that is more economically aligned with Russia, and Russia wouldn’t have invaded.

      I for one, wouldn’t have spent 40 years trying to overthrow a proletarian democracy, eventually succeeding in sponsoring a coup.

      So Ukraine and Russia wouldn’t be right wing nationalist nations and would instead be part of a progressive federation.

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        8 months ago

        The path where America is not in control and making the decisions for the rest of the world doesn’t even enter the liberalist mind. The inability to imagine an alternative world order is heavily ingrained and maintained by fear of “the other.”