If so, was it polled somewhere?

    • somename [she/her]
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      221 year ago

      We’re just not keeping our head in the sand here. Ukraine is not taking back Crimea, or even the Donbas. The counteroffensive failed horribly. Cheering for more bloodshed isn’t going to make a better outcome in the end.

      • @Zirconium@sh.itjust.works
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        “cheering for more bloodshed.” Are you telling on yourself? You act like a counteroffensive is supposed to be fast and easy. It’s not, war is bloody and deadly and Russia is not going to call for peace until they achieve their objective of overthrowing the Ukrainian government or achieving a peace deal where they can keep Ukraine’s economic sectors

          • @Zirconium@sh.itjust.works
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            41 year ago

            You act like peace deals are the same thing as calls for peace. They can still have peace deals to appear they want peace when they started the war in the first place back in 2014

            • Egon [they/them]
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              171 year ago

              You act as if a peace deal isn’t literally someone calling for peace.
              Lmao what with the “infiltrators” that cannot be proven? The two oblasts have a large population that is ethnically russian. When a government that had spoken of cleansing russian influence comes into power, it is pretty understandable that that would foment separatism. At best we can prove Russia provided financial aid to separatists, and then later stepped in and negotiate Minsk I and II, which were both broken by Ukraine

                • Egon [they/them]
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                  121 year ago

                  They at least fought enough for autonomy that Ukraine saw fit to bomb them. Wether they wanted to be Russian is debatable

                  • @Zirconium@sh.itjust.works
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                    31 year ago

                    Some Russians who maybe maybe not that lived in the area fought against Ukraine which means they wanted autonomy therefore it’s ok for Russia to annex and invade Ukraine

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          Yall calling for the continuation of the war are telling on yourselves. Otherwise you’d fucking be fighting rather than advocating behind a computer for others to die. Too scared to go to Spain and fight the fascists?

          • @Zirconium@sh.itjust.works
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            41 year ago

            Oh man the the US union should’ve just given up the civil war instead of continuing the fighting. Think of all the good Americans that will die. Let’s just let the confederates secede instead of having a bloody conflict

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              You think the country that has a national holiday to celebrate their Nazi era leader is the Union in this analogy?

              • @Zirconium@sh.itjust.works
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                61 year ago

                And there the conversation goes. Ukraine is actually Nazi and it’s ok to kidnap and bomb the Ukrainian citizens because the country is openly nazi

                • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                  141 year ago

                  Just using the trappings of sarcasm in your reply doesn’t negate the fact that I reported is in fact true. They openly celebrate their nazi history.

                  The conversation goes that way because there lies the truth.

                  • @Zirconium@sh.itjust.works
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                    31 year ago

                    The truth doesn’t happen just because you say it does. Can you link anything to prove what you said or do you just pretend your worldview is the truth

                • ReadFanon [any, any]
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                  101 year ago

                  *brings up an odious historical comparison in a hamfisted attempt at an analogy*

                  *someone else brings up history relevant to the country in question*

                  “How dare you!?”

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          The only progress the counteroffensive has made is in destroying Western materiel and getting scores of Ukrainians killed. They haven’t even reached the second defensive line yet. The total amount of territory retaken is like 100 meters of farmland. I’m calling it a failure because it is a failure.

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            Hey, it’s made a lot of money for the military-industrial complex too!

            You can’t call it a wash like that when, back home, the almighty line is going up.

        • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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          151 year ago

          You act like a counteroffensive is supposed to be fast and easy.

          It’s September. Their window to make any gains in their counteroffensive has passed. Now they have to fight against the weather on top of the Russians.

    • Egon [they/them]
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      221 year ago

      They can either surrender now, or surrender when all the able bodied people have been killed for no good reason. Ukraine can no longer win this war.

      • @Zirconium@sh.itjust.works
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        41 year ago

        “Ukraine should surrender so that they can spare their civilian and combatant lives to Russia which totally won’t abuse their land and people as they’ve done in the past”

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          Ukraine should surrender now while people still have families to come home to, instead of propagating senseless death.
          You’re also just making russian demands up? At no point during this war has Russia sought to annex the entirety of Ukraine, which it seems to be whate you are implying they will do.
          Please try to remain in reality.

        • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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          131 year ago

          So wait. Your criteria for who should win is based on the aftermath… So you think Ukraine should be allowed to complete it’s ethnic cleansing?

            • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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              171 year ago

              There were pogroms and mass murders at the ground level and there were laws targeting Russian speakers from the governmental level. The weapons Trump was impeached for tying political favors to were being used against resistance militias. They were being used to bomb facilities built in the soviet era that pump hot water into people’s homes as the local method of heating during the winter. They locked over a hundred people in a building and burned them alive in it. They broke multiple treaties with Russia in order to do all of this. This was the lead up to the war.

            • ReadFanon [any, any]
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              131 year ago

              What ethnic cleansing?

              Whoop, there it is! I’m quoting that for posterity before you delete this comment.

              You’re literally denying an attempted genocide right now, y’know that?

              • @Zirconium@sh.itjust.works
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                21 year ago

                What attempted genocide? You didn’t answer my question. I love the fascist playbook of “don’t play defense” in action.

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                  I’m not the person who you responded to.

                  I’m talking about the targeting of ethnically Russian Ukrainians in the eastern part of Ukraine (the Donbas region.)

                  There has been attacks against these people going on since 2014. Thousands upon thousands have died and more have been wounded in this low-grade civil war that became the prelude to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

                  Here’s a western article filtered through western intelligence describing the situation with some glaring oversights, namely that there has been ultranationalist paramilitary forces operating in the Donbas (Azov, Right Sector, C14, National Militia, OUN et al.) with tacit approval from the Ukrainian government since 2014 and that civilian targets have been routinely been used by the military and the paramilitary groups.

                  Here’s a short article written by a former USAID officer (!) published by The Atlantic Council (!!) that describes the problem with far-right militias in Ukraine, just so there’s no accusations of bias from me in this discussion.

                  They’ve literally been targeting civilians who are of the “wrong” ethnicity for nearly a decade now. If that doesn’t count as an attempted genocide, I don’t know what would.

                  Also that’s some cheap framing of the discussion btw. Fascism isn’t “don’t play defence”. I take it that you have gotten your picture of fascism from a particular, well-known YouTube series. If so, that series is critically flawed and it does a bad job of defining fascism and how it functions. But that’s a different discussion altogether.

                  • kev-F384
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                    I think you will find Putin flooded the Donbas with Russian citizens with the promise of homes and land long before this war, the people you call Russian Ukrainians are just Russians nothing more nothing less.