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It's insane how horny the west is for nuclear armageddon lmao
People in power grew up being teased with it, guess they want to see the fireworks before they pop off.
I now want a t-shirt that says "horny for Armageddon".
feddit.uk Christmas presents?
If we avoid a nuclear winter, the f.uk store will have plenty to purchase.
I mean, they just want to sell missiles and make that moolah. It's the man in Moscow who keeps threatening nuclear winter...
You're a fucking moron, and whatever mod wants to remove this again do me a favor and ban me if this shithole is so full of liberalism
"Brigading" literally could you cry harder
Come on mods - it's fine for people to disagree/discuss/whatever.
Maybe I'm a moron and maybe this person is a tactless tankie.
I actually appreciated that there's some actual fucking discussion here.
We try.
So far, we've not defederated from hexbear.
When we have a thread that's 50% comments from another instance, upvoted solely by that instance, it's shit.
Maybe we should meet "the man in Moscow" (as if this has anything to do with one specific individual lol) in the middle then, and avoid us all getting vaporized.
Wold be nice.
I mean, I'm being facetious, it's obviously shitty that people are being fed into a meat grinder, but from where I'm sitting it seems like Ukraine is being used as a fertile market for armements and whoever makes up the bunch I charge of Russia's nukes are using them as an attempt to stop interference in their efforts to annexe a neighbour.
What's the chapo traphouse/ML take on this?
You're mostly correct except Russia obviously doesn't want to annex Ukraine, only the majority Russian parts that have been treated as second class citizens by Ukraine's nazi government. If they annexed all of it, they'd only create larger problems for themselves in the borders with NATO members; keeping Ukraine neutral is the whole point (and is beneficial for everyone except arms dealers as you pointed out)
It's also worth remembering Russia's position in the peace talks that started immediately after the war began:
Russia never wanted to annex Ukraine wholesale. It didn't even want any new territory.
What tanked these talks was not the Ukranian government, but their NATO puppetmasters:
::: spoiler Furthermore, here's a very interesting series of maps:
Percentage of the population that are native Russian speakers.
Support for Yanukovich, the president overthrown in 2014 and replaced by a government that immediately banned the use of Russian in offical documents and schools.
Support for Volodomir Zelenski - or Vladimir Zelensky, as he would have been known in his first language, Russian - who ran against the coup leader on a platform of reconciliation with the separatist areas, right up until he won and someone with Hitler tattoos and a big gun explained his situation to him.
And last but not least, a map of Russia's early warning RADAR system, which you may notice a slice of eastern Ukraine sits neatly under, making it the ideal launch point for a decapitation strike against Moscow.
So "annexing a neighbour" is trivially not what Russia wants, or is even capable of achieving. They want a demilitarized, denazified zone encompassing their most vulnerable border, a totally reasonable desire for any state, especially one facing down the lying, bloodthirsty savages of NATO. It will grab the areas of Russian speakers that it's actually possible to assimilate, bringing the territory under their internal security arrangements, and leave the majority-Ukrainian-speaking areas that would be impossible to control to some sort of Kiev-run rump state.
In b4 this comment gets removed too 🙄
feddit.uk mods going to call this brigading too lmao
Thanks for actually explaining your position - I'm annoyed it got nixed because I actually wanted to read it properly!
You should be able to read it in the modlog still.
And this was promised to Russia upon the breakup of thr Soviet Union -- Ukraine's constitution calls it something like a "permanently neutral state."
Then, after 20 years of NATO pushing east (and destroying countries like Yugoslavia and Libya), the U.S. backs a color revolution in Ukraine in 2014. Next you start hearing talks of Ukraine joining NATO and Russian speakers in Eastern Ukraine start getting attacked. Then Ukraine breaks the Minsk agreements (those same ones Angela Merkel admitted were a stall tactic to arm Ukraine for this very war).
You can disagree over whether this approaching hostility is justification for an invasion (the U.S. certainly would think so; it invaded Cuba over far less), but there's really no argument that evil Putler just woke up one day and decided to do a land grab for reasons.
These comments all got removed for "brigading" lmao
Just terminal reddit brain. You moderate a federated website. Seeing posts from other communities is the whole point lol. Why not just list the real reason for removal which we all can clearly see is just that they were critical of NATO? Hilarious to hide behind the wack ass reddit mindset of "brigades" being anything you disagree with
They could have done the reddit thing and accuse me of the GRIEVOUS crime of INCIVILITY. After all, I called a moron a moron
You didn't know I was a moron, to be fair.
Is the correct narrative that poor old Russia is being pushed to use nukes by NATO operations which are attempting to stop the annexation of Ukraine?
If you were alive in the Cuban missile crisis you'd be saying some wild stuff like "Turkey NEEDED those nukes!"
Turkey isn't in Cuba /s
(But I see your point).