Russian politician honestly explains the goals of the Ukraine war, admits any peace deal will only be temporary
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Doesn't matter what the negotiations result in
Anything less than a compete defeat of Russia will just invite Russia back. Zelenski knows this, for sure.
If Ukraine won't be allowed to join NATO then Europe must put up multiple army bases with European weapons in Ukraine. This not only for Ukraine but also for Europe.
On a side note: if everyone, Europe included, could stop giving into every shit demand from Cheeto, that would be awesome
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Overwhelming majority is hard to prove, but a simple majority is pretty clearly the case. There have been multiple good polling done by outsider firms enough to show that there is a majority support for it at least.
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Buddy, I didn't even read your comment until just now, let alone downvote it.
Sorry dude, it was a racist statement. I'm sure Russia is chock full of people like that. But that's not what you said, is it?
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I’m not excusing, I’m explaining because without understanding there’s even less chance of changing anything. There’s a reason Russians don’t want to do anything, and it’s not because they would be comfortable within their culture. They don’t see a way out, they’re trapped in there, if you even try to get out you get beaten up so many decide that as you can’t change anything anyways, you can just as well acquiesce, that’s less mental load. That’s taking the big picture at face value.
You're playing into their victim-hood narrative that the russians openly use for misinformation and promotion of their imperialist goals. Who is responsible for the current state of affairs in russia? The people of Botswana? The people of Uruguay?
No, it's the russians who voted Putin into power in 2000 (even though they knew the nature of the KGB) and then elected him again in 2004 when he shut down most mass scale independent media. And the elections of 2000 and 2004 are generally seen to be fair.
It's the russians who went with the comical Medvedev seat warming exercise and supported the invasion of Georgia in 2008.
Yet you keep trying to sweep this all under the rug, with claims such as "they are trapped there" to try and position them as innocent victims. When in reality they only have themselves to blame for the state of affairs in their country.
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Who is responsible for the current state of affairs in russia?
Who is responsible when a junkie rips copper pipes out of their shower to sell to buy drugs?
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This is enablement of russian genocidal imperialism.
Rather than taking a sober and realistic look at their actions and attitudes, we get this bullshit.
If you actually had to deal with russians, you would never in a million years behave in such a manner.
Be thankful you don't have to deal with them.
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I'm all for locking the junkie up in a psych ward and using their trust fund to pay for it.
There is no rational interpretation of what Russia is doing but considering them irrational actors. They, just like the junkie, aren't acting in their own self-interest, not even close to it. They're mad. All I'm doing is giving some psychoanalysis.
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Shitpost all you want, just don't act like you're actually being legit.
At the very least a strong majority of russian are genocidal imperialists (if not an overwhelming majority). The victim/junkie positioning merely provides cover for their actions.
They know what they are doing. They know what they are doing is bad and they will keep on doing it until they think they can get away with it.
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At the very least a strong majority of russian are genocidal imperialists (if not an overwhelming majority). The victim/junkie positioning merely provides cover for their actions.
That doesn't make sense. Pretending to be mad, to take actions that are to your own detriment, is mad in itself.
They know what they are doing.
And so do a fuckton of junkies.
I don't think we're getting anywhere here. How about this:
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
That's Sun Tzu. Know the enemy. "They are genocidal maniacs" is not knowing them, it's judging them. You cannot lead them by the nose with that, you cannot manipulate them, you cannot outflank them. Judgement is not understanding, one cannot replace the other.
Might it thus, with that in mind, be helpful to understand why Russia is the kind of country that it is.
