Many on the Latte Left facilitated this new era of fascist censorship. Remember when people didn’t care that folks who were accurately assessing the situation between Ukraine and Russia were targeted and silenced?
Many on the Latte Left facilitated this new era of fascist censorship. Remember when people didn’t care that folks who were accurately assessing the situation between Ukraine and Russia were targeted and silenced?
Yep. Leftists are regularly fighting back against misinformation and carefully crafted narratives designed to make people believe lies even if said narrative isn’t expressly untrue.
Nope. War is still bad, which is why the invading country should stop or be made to stop if they won’t do so voluntarily.
Here’s a fun exercise. If a foreign hostile power invaded the area you live in, using an excuse that has enough elements of truth to not technically be a flat out lie, how much of that land should be given up to appease them?
It’s ok. Don’t feel obligated to answer. I’m certainly not coming back to this thread.
Well you forgot the third option: peace negotiations.
How does that work unilaterally?
Russia has grievances that could be addressed in a negotiation; the question of NATO membership for Ukraine, UN monitored referendums on whether the disputed regions want to stay in Ukraine or join Russia or become independent, a truth-and-reconcilliation to address the legitimate Nazi concerns, etc.
But y’all shit your pants whenever any of this is brought up so we’ll just fight to the last Ukrainian instead 😒
Who gives a shit about Russia’s grievances? You don’t get to invade a sovereign nation and murder its people because you dont like the way they do things in their own country. (Or at least your shouldn’t, if we lived a sane world). It wasn’t right when US did it in Iraq, it wasn’t right when Russia did it in Ukraine, and it’s certainly not right for Israel to massacre and invade Palestinian land.
If you don’t give a shit about your enemy’s grievances then you can’t expect them to negotiate. That’s how it works.
I don’t expect negotiations with Russia. They have no legitimate legs to stand on. The only acceptable solution should be full withdrawal of all forces from all Ukranian regions and severe international sanctions to cripple their economy even further. You don’t get to break into someone else’s house and then demand they negotiate with you before you leave or demand they give you one of their rooms for keeps because you don’t like who they hang out with.
The person my neighbor hangs out with is a known serial killer that is openly hostile to me and keeps trying to set up cameras inside my house, yeah, I might try to do something about that lol
I don’t see why UN monitored referendums in the disputed regions is so unacceptable. If people want to leave or want to stay, let them decide.
The regions are only “disputed” because Russia invaded another sovereign nation under false pretenses 9 years ago, brought in their people, set up sham elections, and is now claiming there’s a legitimate, native contingent that wants to break away.
Also, while I won’t dispute the serial killer analogy (I get it, USA is a shit hegemon), it’s again a bit disingenuous because you yourself have enjoyed chopping up boddies from time to time (to keep the analogy going) so the pearl clutching is not as strong of an argument as you may think. Likewise with the cameras: they’re setting up cameras in the neighbors yard, not yours (because again, the neighbors house is NOT YOURS).
Perhaps so, but the fact is that Putin has stated preconditions for negotiations that Ukraine finds unacceptable. It’s not up to me, or anybody in the U.S. government to decide, unless the Ukranian government is a group of puppets without agency. It seems that they are also suspicious of whether he would abide by the terms of a deal, considering the track record of reneging on the past security guarantee, the rhetoric of conquest among his circle, as well as attempting no diplomatic paths to resolve those issues.
You mean the government installed by a Western coup and is being propped up by unlimited aid and resources? Hmmm…
I’ve heard that accusation plenty, and believed it until I looked into it. Ukrainians in large numbers were willing to fight and die for a movement which wasn’t a coup until the president fled to Russia. They’re not puppets with no agency who can be ordered around from Washington or Brussels. As such, the popular support the government received, and still does, tends to support the idea that it’s not just a Western puppet.
And, even if it was all true, does it not speak strongly against Putin’s willingness to negotiate? He could have tried diplomacy before, but if he chose invasion because he saw Ukraine/NATO as unreliable parties, why would that change now?
He did try diplomacy before! Shortly after the war began there were talks, and then the US put the breaks on it.
Again though, it’s disingenuous to say he tried diplomacy when his demands all infringed on a sovereign nation’s ability to self govern and determine. And don’t give me the NATO bullshit line. Russia was already bordered by other NATO nations. And frankly even if it was not, he doesnt get to decide who they can form deals and relationships with. Theyre no longer a USSR vassal state, no matter how much he’d like them to be. This was a land grab for resources, strategic access, and one old fucks personal delusions of grandeur.