Are you suggesting that if Ukraine let go of the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine that Russia occupies, people living in those areas would flee, or that people would flee Ukraine proper in the event of peace?
Neither scenario makes sense to me, why would you expect more people would leave if the bombs stopped?
Zelenskyy saying they’ll fight until they take Crimea in 2022 and 2024.
There’s 3 parties that can unilaterally end the war here, Putin, by just going home and abandoning Crimea and the occupied parts of Ukraine, Zelensky, by accepting peace and giving up the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine, and America, by not trying to fight Russia to the last drop of Ukrainian blood.
But there’s other actions that are helping, such as Hungary and Georgia by taking Russian draft dodgers and the rest of the EU by taking Ukrainian draft dodgers.
Zelensky is just as capable of ending this as Putin is.
Well yes, of course, just as Zelenskyy could end the people fleeing Ukraine by accepting a peace deal.
The same applies to the west not accepting Ukraine’s extradition requests of its draft dodgers so far.
Every bomb and soldier that enters the conflict, on either side, is a bad day for someone, statistically mostly civilians.
What’s the political situation in Hungary? If Orban is ousted, how likely is the next guy to be less fascist?
I’m sure 99.99% of Russian immigrants aren’t spies. Bringing in Russians genuinely damages Russia’s ability to carry out the war though; they’re down to a 2.6% unemployment rate and real wages are up like 40%.
They’re taking significant measures to get soldiers and labor, and the more Russians flee, the more they have to do to get labor and troops.
The other shit they did informs us of they way they think.
I understand why you’d assume they’re being sarcastic, but someone who literally believes Israel is killing bad guys isn’t going to express sarcasm that way. Those are not the posts of someone concerned with blowback.
They have 7 accounts, and they all have similar content removed by mods.
No, they were being serious.
The marvel-brained lib has had a comment removed for justifying Israeli attacks on hospitals and schools.
DocToPdf Disrespect was quietly banned from twitch, and then responded to allegations that he was sexting minors with “age of consent varies between states, what I did wasn’t even illegal and what even is sexting? This is just haters trying to ruin my day”
nonexistent gay rights movement in Russia and many other communist countries
Russia hasn’t been communist for almost 35 years.
gay civil rights group
There’s gay rights groups in communist countries too. They tend to take different forms though, due to different cultures and circumstances; you don’t have to form protection groups if you’re not in danger of getting hate-crime’d.
In China for instance, they’re more focused on gaining familial acceptance than government persecution. In Cuba, they had a referendum to enshrine LGBT+ rights in the constitution.
If you want the least amount of blood spilled, you should be advocating to send weapons to Ukraine.
There were peace offers from Russia a year ago that would have had them give up a portion of their occupied territory for peace. Ukraine declined because they believed they had the means to take back even more territory (at the expense of a lot more Ukrainian blood).
We’d have avoided the last year’s bloodshed if we stopped sending weapons back then.
What we are seeing right now is the absolute worst possible scenario for Ukrainians; a quick win or loss wouldn’t have killed 100K+, destroyed millions of homes, and displaced millions of refugees.
signaling to Russia that they can’t invade other countries for free
Russia can barely manage to invade the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine, do you really think they’re planning to invade NATO next?
Where did you read that?
Not doubting it, ISIS are psychos, but it wasn’t in the article
Flying Squid, as someone not living in Russia talking to people who mostly don’t live in Russia, calling for the destruction of the Russian state, only serves to justify further weapons to Ukraine, spilling more Ukrainian and Russian blood.
If we were in Russia, the situation would be reversed (we also might not even be having this conversation due to fear of reprecussion)
You say that, but the alternative, that you’re only feigning ignorance on the subject and making vague assertions that Russian prisons must so incredibly worse than American prisons when you could actually show or just vaguely point in the direction of actual knowledge on the subject is not plausible.
If I see someone in a wheelchair slip out and struggle to get back in, I’d say I’m certain they can’t walk very well. Yes it’s physically possible they’re just pretending, but it’s so unlikely as to not be useful to include in my understanding.
You’re not fooling anyone.
I’m just going to vaguely gesture at your post history. You’d be referencing specific examples or relevant books or white papers if you had the level of familiarity required to do so.
Because if you knew what you were talking about, you’d be citing specific examples or academic works, and if you read Russian, you’d have primary sources.
They will be in fear if Ukraine rules over them too, there was no shortage of war-crimes being committed against the civilians before the 2022 invasion.
But in either scenario, they will be in less fear than if they’re literally being shelled.