• Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]English
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    It’s not supporting Russia to be critical of one-sided narratives or to call for peace for the sake of minimizing loss of life.

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      So you’d want peace by Ukraine giving up its territory?

      How about peace talks that involve Russia giving back all Ukrainian lands (including Crimea) and pulling all troops out.

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          You mean the Russians that Russia settled there? Curious what you think about the Uighurs getting to break away a country from China.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]English
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        Why stop there, how about demanding Russia provide every Ukrainian with a talking unicorn buddy?

        I live in reality and when I say I want peace it means I believe in negotiating based on realistic expectations.

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        A compromise now is bad for russia, russia basically has to be able to extort Western Europe to not to be crippled for decades. Germany is apparently working to that end now.

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          It’s so fucking funny when the geopolitics understanders who have been drip-fed NATO propaganda state the clear opposite of reality and think they made an insightful comment.

          Russia has all but won the military conflict, as has been made clear by this utter failure of a “counteroffensive. Russia is doing better economically than before the SMO, despite the supposed economic wunderwaffen sanctions that only backfired and hurt NATO countries. Russia has only gained support by most of the rest of the world and has showed the global south that the US/NATO are indeed paper tigers. Russia has all the leverage now. So yes, for Russia to compromise right now would be bad for them because they don’t need to compromise, they can keep going as they have been and eventually have their demands met, or Ukraine/NATO can recognize they’ve lost and make a bid for peace by acquiescing to Russia’s demands before more lives are needlessly lost.

          Ukraine on the other hand will be crippled for decades regardless of how things pan out. Ukraine is now deeply indebted to Western countries, has already had all national assets sold off, has had a major chunk of its working-age population killed or maimed, and is beholden to a fascist, nazi-worshipping government.

          As for Germany, yeah they have been working to the end of hobbling themselves for decades too by allowing their remaining industrial capacity to be completely gutted, kowtowing to their US masters that bombed their infrastructure to prevent them ever again getting oil from ‘The Bad Country,’ they have irreparably removed nuclear power as an option even as they’re facing an impending energy crisis (in large part because of aforementioned no-oil-from-bad-country), and are right now also sliding towards right wing populism.

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      Ohh won’t someone think of the poor invading war criminals!

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]English
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        Ukrainians are dying too, including ones drafted against their will. Maybe you should fight in their place before asking them to die on your behalf.