Just because we didn’t quite fill enough buckets with arguing about the Budapest memorandum, the first time around
Why the fuck is a russian asset negotiating a peace deal supposedly for Ukraine in the first place?
The EU is the only entity that has the ability to deliver any justice in this matter. The US exited the world stage the day they elected a criminal rapist and rissian puppet as our leader.
Well, actually the time they pulled out of Iraq.
There’s an old saying in Tennessee, I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.
GW Bush
Why the fuck is a russian asset negotiating a peace deal supposedly for Ukraine in the first place?
Because they paid for a ton of propaganda and won the disinformation war.
Yeah to hell with the Orange Idiot. His entire rationale behind this so-called deal is that Putin knows how to manipulate him, so he thinks Putin is his friend. He’s so goddamn stupid and thinks he’s such a master deal maker; he wouldn’t know a good deal if it was inked with his fucking bronzer.
IMO, The EU should straight up ally with Ukraine with a path to membership. I think that allowing Russia to be as it is, would be a huge mistake. In a conflict with America, that would likely mean having a Russian knife to one’s back. Breaking the Russia we know, developing Ukraine, and maybe even help some form of Neorussia democracy with a Marshall Plan, would all contribute to getting ready for a fight with America.
I think it’s time for UK, France, Poland and Germany to get into the war in Ukraine and push Russia back to their border and set up nuclear weapons in Ukraine under their control.
Europe would have gained some of the most experienced army in an alliance and cross-train like crazy. They would have some capacity to hold their own against Russia in absence of US Military.
If Russia want a nuclear war, then so be it. There’s nothing to discuss there, it just means they were planning on using it from the start. Better to die on your feet than on your knees.
This is insane. You have no idea what you are taking about.
Look up Nuclear Sharing Program. That idea have been around for a very long time. Try harder, Russian bot.
Says the account of seven days, huh… Three letter agencies sure do glow bright
He’s right. USA demanding payment is BS, after all Ukraine got rid of nuclear weapons with assurence of security. USA was a part of that assurence. Same goes for all European countries that backed that deal. You signed it, now stand by it no matter what.
Also, it just makes financial sense to help the Ukrainians defend their country. Hear me out.
The US hasn’t had a peer or near peer war in a long time. This gives a huge amount of data to better use the pentagons funding.
They can allocate more money to drones and anti drone systems, test out new equipment and see if it’s worth continuing to invest in and see how these systems truly stack up against their counterparts and learn from them.
That said, US military funding is fucked and we spend way too much on it. Even if we had a smaller budget, it still makes sense.
I always find it fascinating when a whole bunch of people all start saying the same wrong thing about something.
I posted below a link to Wikipedia explaining what actually happened with this. I feel like the game of me disagreeing with this person is just going to get swallowed into an expanding tide of people arguing and insisting on things. Read the article.
From an article I read about this:
“We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective,” [US Defense Secretary] Hegseth said, referring to the year Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. “Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering.”
Why is that an “illusionary goal”? That should be the bare minimum goal. I’d say that plus some sort of restitution and Putin being jailed would be the ideal outcome, but getting their territory back should be the main non-negotiable.
I resurrected this solely because I wanted to continue a conversation with @Objection@lemmy.ml because I thought they were making a pretty fair argument.
It seems to me that it wasn’t so much that they “snapped out of it” as that they were trying to argue in good faith from the start, and got sidetracked because of your antics.
The alt-right playbook is good stuff for dealing with alt-right people or those who employ similar tactics, but if you resort to that right off the bat without justification, then you’re the one who’s out of line.
Yeah. Since I’ve been trying not to do this, I’ve caught myself a few of times typing something super-sarcastic, deleted it, and written just a straight explanation of what I’m trying to say, and it always works better. If the person was bad-faith, then it becomes a little more clear who’s the bad party, instead of it just being a big snark fight. If they weren’t (which has also happened), it saves a whole bunch of grief and hostility on all sides. I was really surprised how well it worked. Maybe that sounds stupid but it was a big revelation to me.
You should use a carrot and stick approach. If someone is sticking to the facts, you stick with the facts, if they start doing weird psychological bullshit, then you deploy countermeasures to force them back to the facts.
This is where it gets to where I have to make a conscious effort. To me, the original message I was replying to was in no way sticking to the facts. It was “factual” in the sense of, no personal attacks or anything, but it was so far removed from a good-faith argument that I just couldn’t take it seriously as something someone actually believes. Like:
- Point: Ukraine is mad about the bullshit peace agreement! (Okay, sure, seems pretty reasonable.)
- Counterpoint: Let’s bring Kamala Harris into it! Harris would obviously have pressured them with the same bullshit peace agreement! Trump isn’t exceptionally dangerous for Ukraine and its aid! The absolutely shocking-to-the-world-at-the-time resistance and counteroffensive Ukraine has been able to do against a 20-times-larger opponent is proof that the West isn’t helping, and therefore Trump is the same as Harris! The real answer is that Ukraine should have nukes!
I’m exaggerating, but only a little.
I actually do think you’re right and I should have taken the snark out. But not because the original argument was something that really needed to be dealt with on the merits, although I did try to make a point to address the merits also instead of just jeering.
Why is the peace deal put in quotes? Last time I checked when a war ends peace comes. Even if there’s a price to pay.
- Because giving one party everything they’re asking for at gunpoint isn’t really a “deal,” that’s just them winning.
- Because part of the concern is that there’s no particular guarantee, if we have a peace deal, that the peace will continue after the deal. Both iterations of Russia’s original invasion were accompanied by strident denials that they were invading, because that was crazy Western propaganda, and nobody’s going to invade Ukraine. A person who’s willing lie to you about the present and past, is even more likely to lie to you about the future.
Edit: Actually, even more telling: One of Russia’s key demands, apparently, is that it is ABSOLUTELY OFF THE TABLE that Ukraine get security guarantees from anyone, now or ever in the future. In the mode of abusers everywhere, the one thing that is an absolute atrocity which will cause them to go ballistic is if they are threatened with consequences if they don’t adhere to the terms of the deal. The deal they are swearing they will, of course, how could you even think otherwise, adhere to.
Losing a war is a peace deal, apparently.
Coincidentally, this is the thought process of a rapist as well.
“Stop resisting, it will end quicker”
Dude, wtf?! That is a shitty analogy. Country’s territories can be brought back in the future. Tens of thousands dead— can not. This economy cannot sustain the pressure of war and a demographic pit and it could use even a temporary truce. Agitating to keep grinding everything down in the hope that some day Russia might fall (it haven’t for 3 years already and doesn’t seem to be on the verge of that anywhere soon) is the analogy to what a rapist does to a human.
If you think a country is just it’s territory, you don’t know what the word ‘country’ means.
‘Just let it happen’ mentality, for real.
Jesus, westerners are something else. What else would be lost from a truce other than territory temporarily?
This is the 3rd(?) time Russia has broken a treaty and stolen territory from Ukraine “temporarily” since that treat was signed.
“Westerners” - I live by the border to russia. I’ve lived in the Soviet Union. I’d put my life do make sure my children don’t have to live “temporarily” in russia.
By your childish, naive logic, every ovuntry that fought to leave Soviet Union should’ve remained, because it costed lives.
By your simplistic view, anyone who fought Nazi Germany, should’ve surrendered for “temporary” territory loss.
You are either a useful idiot for russia’s terrorism, or a child.
All those lives you care about can be saved by russians going back to home. For some reason, I don’t see you trying to convince people that’s the best course of action.
