• @awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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    Great, another Hexbear brigading thread. Hexbear needs to be defederated, it’s a bunch of fake communists spreading authoritarian propaganda.

    • reddwarf
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      Agreed. Hexbear and lemmygrad idiots are pretending to be all for peace and yet support the war mongers in russia.

      These instances are a magnet for dishonesty and propaganda. Plus they have a 4chan attitude towards discussions, i.e. they keep shifting goalposts if you press them and throw absurd statements at you while doing so. There is nothing redeeming of those places.

        • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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          There’s a lot of silly and disingeneous people on this app, I have to take their written word at face value. You seem to think ad hominem attacks are worth detracting from the article published in The Hill, a news source that would normally fit your ideology. So even when your own trusted media is reporting that Ukraine’s a geopolitical and moral mess, instead you’re claiming it’s a group of people spreading propaganda. I think you don’t care about Ukranians you just want to be right.

    • mrnotoriousman
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      They didn’t even read the article either clearly lol

      One Baltic official, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic, told The Hill that Baltic states are concerned that pushing Ukraine into negotiations will have dangerous ripple effects throughout the region.

      This is the “fears of peace talks”

  • RaineV1
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    Russia has done horrible things to the Ukrainian people for a good century now. I hope the Ukraine doesn’t get pressured into giving its land and people over to Putin. Any deal needs to give Ukraine all its territory back, and for Russia to keep its military off their border.

    • @ebenixo@sh.itjust.works
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      What has Ukraine allowed to have happen to it’s ethnic Russian population comprising a significant portion of the east of Ukraine done during it’s time? You speak like a US state department underling. Whose office are you in exactly?

      • @yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
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        What has Ukraine Czechoslovakia allowed to have happen [sic] to it’s [sic] ethnic Russian German population comprising a decent portion of the east of Ukraine [sic] West of Czechoslovakia done during it’s [sic] time?

        The settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace.

        • Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, September 30th, 1938.

        More context:

        The Munich Agreement[a] was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.

      • @Apollo@sh.itjust.works
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        Are you making fun of someone for parroting US talking points, while yourself parroting Kremlin talking points?

        • @ebenixo@sh.itjust.works
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          Anything except being for using Ukraine to fight a US-Russia proxy war is a Kremlin talking point to state dept plants like yourself.

          • @Apollo@sh.itjust.works
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            So everyone who doesn’t agree with your (completely Russian aligned btw) views works for the US state dept? Are you in high school or something?

            • Fazoo
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              Coal mine. It’s high school for Russians.

          • dandi8
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            If it’s a proxy war, that means that Russia attacked Ukraine to get back at the US, not the other way around. This means it’s on Russia to stop the war, by giving back an innocent country’s land that they stole.

            • @ebenixo@sh.itjust.works
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              Try studying history and us involvement in the region. Instead gas lighting people like they don’t know why Russia invaded part of the country. What has the US and NATO done prior to 2014 to create stability and peace in the region. Jack shit, the opposite, and there were plenty of opportunities. Ukraine isn’t going to get its land back period.

      • RaineV1
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        I’m pretty left leaning, and I’m against any fascist state trying to turn its neighbors into vassal states for its interest. And yes, that means being against a lot of what the US does as well.

    • Phoenixz
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      Pull your nose put of Putin’s ass. Putin doesn’t want peace, he wanted to steal juuuust a little bit more and at this point he just hopes not to be assassinated by his cronies for fucking everything up

      • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        You probably love the ass eating fetish too much I guess. Go back to the Warsaw Pact and tell me who broke it in 90s for “western expansion”, or why did US ex-VP Dick Cheney said their goal is to balkanise Russia, or why there were biochemical factories in Ukraine near shared Russian border.

        • Phoenixz
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          I love how you just make shit up without any evidence.

          I take it you really believe that Putin is executing a three day special operation to rid Ukraine from Nazi’s?

          • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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            make shit up without any evidence

            Can you stop projecting and tell me where Putin ever said this?

            Putin is executing a three day special operation

            • Phoenixz
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              Are you kidding? This is what has been claimed countless times since day one of the invasion. It’s the official position of the Russian government.

              Fuck Putin and fuck you

              • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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                Claimed countless times by deez nuts. You have no official source from Russian government as proof. You rely on the Big Lie aka “what has been claimed countless times” by West. Do you have a brain to think for yourself, and check if something is even true, regardless of how much it is repeated ad nauseam?

                Let some fresh air in your head, headass. And think by yourself for once.

                • Phoenixz
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                  https://www.rt.com/russia/550408-special-operation-putin-donbass/

                  First result on Google. Rt is the Russian government controlled news agency.

                  It quite literally has the words even in the URL. And this is one of MANY announcements about the “special operation”

                  You’re either a troll, Facebook conspiracy theorist, a paid Putin puppet or just a really really dumb little boy.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    If Ukraine enters peace talks now, have they gained anything or put their country in a better position since the original peace talks, which were sabotaged by Boris Johnson and British intelligence, over a year ago? Have they gained any significant territory since what was proposed then? Is their army in a stronger position? Are any gains since then worth the losses?

    Just looking at it from a purely pragmatic and realpolitik perspective, I don’t see how anyone can argue that Ukraine has gained anything significant in this stalemate of a conflict. If they get similar results now, as what was on the table originally at the first peace talks, it means that their Western backers essentially sold a pipe dream to Ukraine that never materialised. Is the collective West ready to explain that to Ukraine, and the rest of the world? That they used Ukraine as a testbed for their weaponry against Russia, sold Ukraine a utopian fantasy that they’d be able to regain significant territory using Western weapons and tactics which never happened, and hundreds of tens to hundreds of thousands of people got killed or injured to accomplish very little.

    • nicman24
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      havent they breach crimea lines? they are the offensive now so they could demand more.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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        They managed to partially capture a handful of villages in the security zone after three months. They are nowhere close to Crimea. The offensive had been a complete disaster and Russia has so far gained more territory in the north than Ukraine has in the south.

        • nicman24
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          Oh wow your comments are wild. Calling others nafo bots lmao and shit.

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      looks like they got back a bit east of Kharkiv & to the north bank of the Dneipr—long before this last big ‘offensive’ tho. Russia might’ve given that pittance of territory up in a peace deal ooth.

    • @Apollo@sh.itjust.works
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      According to Ukraine it was uncovering the evidence of atrocities such as Bucha that ended any chance of peace talks early doors.

      Uncovering mass graves of civillians is likely to do that mind you.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    fears of peace

    Sounds about right when it comes to what wine cave warriors crave and what they fear losing.

    • NotErisma [they/them, any]
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      I heard those wine glasses go clink

      debord-tired

      >edit like idk hours later

      FUckK I heard them clink again!

      peltier-laugh ya know what, im actually okay with this little gag in my head

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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    222 years ago

    Please upvote this comment if you are a liberal and this headline gave you pause and maybe a nagging “are we the baddies?” moment of reflection

    • thilo
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      And then I read the article and remembered: reality is more complicated then good-bad.

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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        A sociopath told you that you aren’t capable of having moral judgements about people dying and that you needed to listen to vetted experts instead. It’s not complicated actually. I contend that pointless death is in fact a bad thing

        • JasSmith
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          I do too. That’s why I hope Ukraine is able to defend themselves against Russia bombing hospitals and torturing children. Once they’ve pushed Russia all the way back to their border, I hope that the world gives Ukraine so many weapons that Russia will never think about attacking them again.

        • Shalakushka
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          Good to know if someone invaded your country that you would be a capitulator and collaborator in the name of an unjust peace.

        • thilo
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          And who or what desides if a death is pointless?

          • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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            If you think there’s glory in these deaths then stop cheering from the backfield and take the place of someone gang pressed off the street.

            • thilo
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              Even if I would do that I suppose you wouldn’t be happier with the situation. And guess what, neither would I.

              • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                But that’s what you’re saying, right? These deaths are valuable just for the sake of fighting in some abstract sense? Because the bad guy is bad?

                • thilo
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                  No, as I said in my first answer, there are no generally right or wrong answers. There are people dying because of some vanity project of the rich and powerful. I also hold the opinion, that those shall be prevented at all costs. But if my information on the conflict is correct and this war started as a civil war on the topic of secession, then the question get’s hard to answer almost instantly, and also highly individual.

  • Phoenixz
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    “SMO” really shows where you get your info from. You support a dictator / maffia boss, you support genocide, and you are on the losing side.

    Your shit army couldn’t even invade a country properly because of all the corruption going on and now you’re being kicked out.

    Russia is the laughing stock and black sheep of the world and it will take decades to rid itself of that mark. Your smart and strong men flew the country because fuck that, they’re not dying for Putin’s bullshit. The only few counties left willing to trade with you are squeezing your balls because they know they can. Russia hasn’t been this week since it’s founding, and you better start worrying about olgout other borders and your internal affairs. Russia is what it is because it suppressed millions. Now that it’s falling appart, those suppressed will stand up, and china, I’m sure, would love to annex a piece of Russia.

    You’re fucked.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    These Baltic and Polish dipshits should just be airdropped on to the frontlines if they want the war to continue so badly.

    Without parachutes.

    • @dakku@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, along with the dipshits commenting from somewhere safe out in the West or whatever that never learn from history about appeasement that doesn’t work.

      No one “wants the war to continue”. But “dipshits” from Poland and countries near Russia know that they will not stop there, and after Ukraine they’re next.

        • Dr. Bluefall
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          If NATO nations prove themselves incapable of defending an ally, maybe.

          • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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            Yeah if NATO ends up being a sham alliance then Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine in the first place because they wouldn’t have felt a geostrategic threat of NATO missiles being places near their borders.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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        Hey, why don’t you go and sign up for the foreign legion instead of shitposting here while other people die.

      • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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        This person is just trying to spread propaganda implying that it’s Ukraine and Poland that are to blame for the war. “If Ukraine would just surrender to this invading force, the war can end and everyone will live happily ever after.”

        They’re carrying water for a hostile dictatorship.

          • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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            The alternative is for Putin to pack it up and go home and stop bleeding Ukraine and Russia (and those men who are being trafficked and conscripted from Cuba by Russia) dry of able bodied men.

            Perhaps you think the entire European continent should just get it out of the way now and hand over their territory to this hostile dictatorship? That’d save a lot of bloodshed, right? We should be focused on doing whatever makes Putin happy because that means peace, unity, and no more war, right?

          • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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            They are, but while wicked problems (what Bostonians call “math”) are very difficult to resolve to the satisfaction of everyone, some approaches are far worse than others.

            Ukraine’s approach – failing to control the neo-Nazi paramilitaries in their midst, then allowing those paramilitaries to violate the Minsk agreements while running away from your largest neighbor and in to the arms of the U.S. empire, then skipping offramps in the lead up to the war and in its first months – was a particularly bad one.

            • thilo
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              can you hint me to some further reading?

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                  failing to control the neo-Nazi paramilitaries in their midst, then allowing those paramilitaries to violate the Minsk agreements

                  This. The later parts I have read about.

      • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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        The best way to defend your home is to stop the bombs from falling on it. Unless you’re not talking about people’s homes, families, and friends, but rather talking about some arbitrary line in the sand that people should be sent to die for.

        • @GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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          Then why oh why aren’t you applying your reasoning to Russia? They started the whole conflict out of a desire to expand their arbitrary lines in the sand to include ukrainian territory.

          If it’s all just pointless bloodshed over lines on a map, why isn’t Russia staying home? All they have to do to stop the deaths is go back.

          • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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            All they have to do to stop the deaths is go back

            Not that Russia isn’t taking casualties, but why do Ukraine supporters act like they’re not the ones feeding their people into the meat grinder? Russia is dug in. You’re sending children and old men into a turkey shoot.

              • @metapod@lemm.ee
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                Would be equally fast if ukraine said “We’re done, keep the territory”
                Edit: objectively true statement downvoted for being inconvenient to the reader

                • hypelightfly
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                  No, it wouldn’t. That would lead to more and worse violence as Russia continues it genocide.

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                  Russia being the aggressor State that didn’t respect its prior engagements (Budapest memorandum), letting them keep the territory they unlawfully took from Ukraine is a ridiculous suggestion, would open the door to the same thing happening again at a later date and would require way more negotiations than just respecting the borders as agreed upon in the 90s.

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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.

              • 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

                • @cpjoa@discuss.tchncs.de
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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.

            • @Apollo@sh.itjust.works
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              Are you suggesting that Russian aggression is justified because they demanded something of a sovereign nation which was refused?

            • @SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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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.

          • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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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.

            Yeah, that’s definitely what’s going on here picard

        • @Nythos@sh.itjust.works
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          I mean sure but what’s the point in peace talks if all it would do is just give Russia more time to prep to try the same shit they’ve been doing for decades now.

  • Phoenixz
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    “Mother Russia is strong”

    Oh god, you are funny.

    Mother Russia is near death at this point. The world has seen that the Russian army can’t even invade small parts of a country that is a fraction if its own size. Corruption in your army os so rampant that your vehicles have been falling apart by themselves.

    Mother Russia is the laughing stock of the world, at this point and due to the genocide being perpetrated, it’s also hated and a black sheep for decades to come.

    Russia won’t be able to get high tech equipment anymore dor anything.

    Your mothers lost their sons because all the smart and rich ones fled the country. Phuket has a nice “alternative invasion” of young Russian men that fled your country and its a single example. Young men that now are removed from your economy and that is on too of the thousands of dead of your shitty laughingly called “smo”

    Rich countries no longer want to trade with Russia so your mother is limited to the few countries left that will squeeze her balls because they know they can.

    Be careful mother Russia, china has seen how disgustingly weak you are and might help a few other areas in Russia to revolt and become independent Chinese pawns.

    Mother Russia is fucked, and if you don’t know that then you’re even more pathetic than I thought.

    • @tomatopathe@sh.itjust.works
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      It really depends. If Russia gets to keep territory it conquered, keep children it kidnapped, not pay for the destruction and murder it wrought, see sanctions lifted and proceed to immediately re-arm and continue on its path of indoctrinating children into becoming fascist warriors for the next round, I wouldn’t call that peace.

  • @ebenixo@sh.itjust.works
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    The fake progressive right wing warmongers of lemmy sitting in their comfortable spaces from across the globe are going to be upset at the prospect of peace.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      I wish all the westies cheering this war on would sign up for the foreign legion and go fight the orcs themselves.

      • dandi8
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        No one is cheering for the war, no matter how many times you say it.

        People may cheer for Ukrainian independence, or for their victories, but no one wants the war to continue. The war can end today, if only Russia decides to give back all the land they took by force, including Crimea.

        You’re building a strawman.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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          Ukraine doesn’t have any independence, no matter how many times you say it. Ukraine has a puppet regime that’s throwing the people of Ukraine into a meat grinder so that US can fight a proxy war with Russia. Meanwhile the only straw man here is the whole RuSsIA CaN JuSt GivE AlL ThE LaND BacK as if that’s a realistic scenario. Russia is winning this war, and the west is losing. There is no situation where Russia just packs up and goes home now. The only question is how many people are going to die before this war ends and whether there is an Ukraine left at the end of it.

          Anybody who supports continuation of this war is absolutely cheering for continued death of people of Ukraine and the destruction of their country.

          • dandi8
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            Oh, Russia is winning this war? Is that why it didn’t end in their estimated 3 days? Is that why Prigozhin marched on the Kremlin? Is that why they’re asking North Korea for weapons now?

            So much winning.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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              Imagine looking at what’s happening with Ukraine’s offensive and still not being able to understand that Russia is winning the war.

      • @ebenixo@sh.itjust.works
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        They’re a bunch of cold war boomers they don’t give a fuck about Ukrainians and they’re not progressive in the slightest.

  • HomebrewHedonist
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    I don’t believe this for one second. I haven’t heard anything from the Ukraine administration that would suggest in any way that they are interested in peace talks. In fact, their recent choice of putting a Crimean Tatar as the Minister of Defence suggests that they are serious about taking Crimea back from Russia. I hear nothing but absolute resolve by both the Weat and Ukraine to keep fighting until a Ukraine victory.