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  • "I'm so anti war it's ridiculous, but you know what, I think we should send some troops to help our Ukrainian friends." :reddit-logo: Really reminds me of "I'm way far left but you know what, Hillary is getting my vote" vibe

  • The attitude of a lot of people toward arming civilians and "heroic sacrifices" is absolutely disgusting. It accomplishes nothing, it's just a question of how many people will die before this ends.

  • there is a low but real possibility that louis ck will be this generation's archduke ferdinand

    no but for real can you imagine how the NYT would write about it if that plane fell on him or something? only mention of the sex crimes would be the word "troubled"

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  • Vladimir Putin's actions are criminal and immoral, but that doesn't change the fact that the sheer bewildering bullheadedness of American foreign policy is what ultimately brought us to this point. Putin's been saying since 2007 that Ukraine joining NATO was an absolute red line for Russia. For fifteen years he's repeated that point, over and over, and getting more and more openly baffled and exasperated that the west seemed not to believe or hear him. But the west just kept pushing and pushing, and making assurances to Ukraine that they would one day join NATO. Even though it was incredibly obvious that they never had any intention of doing any such thing, the west for some fucking reason just couldn't bring themselves to just say so, to do any kind of real diplomacy, to recognize any of Russia's obvious red lines and core interests. None of America's actions leading up to this had anything remotely to do with it's national interests. We just kept saying that Ukraine would join NATO, based on a half-baked and unclear moral principle, which we never had any intention of living up to. We acted like a child playing with an action figure and making up a nonsensical story, only the action figure was Ukraine. America treated Ukraine like a toy and now they're paying the price.

  • Macron saying Putin is "taking us back to the age of empires" is very ironic considering France still maintains that 14 African countries must use the Franc of the French Colonies in Africa as their currency, maintaining 50% of assets in the French Central Bank, and the assassination of tens of African leaders in the past 50 years.

    Guess it's only "the end of history" when it happens in Europe, in Africa it's just sparkling pain.

  • Zelensky now apparently begging European military members to come and fight in Ukraine individually, without their countries' say so.

    I wonder if he's even still in Ukraine at this point?

  • I've "got to hand it to them", Russia is doing some highly refined trolling by using western bullshit terms like "military operation", "surgical strike" and "peacekeeping" in an explicitly anti-western context.

  • I have to preface this with Putin sucks, and I do mean this sincerely, but holy shit the Russians know how to fight wars on the operational level. Like it was something I always studied and was aware of, but part of me always doubts the efficacy of any armed force and I was not expecting them to be rolling Ukraine as fast as they are. I guess that's what those Soviet military institutions and doctrines get you, and hopefully liberals can stfu about the Warsaw Pact having been a paper tiger.

  • Per CNN

    In his video message to the Ukrainian people early Friday morning, President Volodymyr Zelensky said "sooner or later, Russia will have to talk to us about ending this military operation, about ending this invasion, and the sooner this conversation begins, the less Russia's losses will be."

    Completely and utterly delusional

  • Ppl always wonder, how tf did people let Nazi genocide happen? Well, this is how, you are seeing it with your own eyes. With the barrage of media propaganda. Germany's Sholtz says that Russian claims of genocide in Donbass are "laughable." NATO countries refuse any dialogue, any concessions. Western MSM say defend Ukraine, Putin is a war criminal etc. NO ONE WANTS TO TALK, NO ONE WANTS TO LISTEN. This is fucking how. "Low information" people think they're the "goodies," cheer for genocide. Of course there would be nothing left for Russia to do than de-nazification, since no one seems to understand anything else but force. No one will mourn or defend Slavs but themselves.

  • it's fucking frightening how many idiots on reddit are rooting for full scale war with NATO. hearing either "ehh putin won't use the nukes, he's bluffing" to "russian nuclear weapons are mostly inactive". like.. muthafuckers, i was a child during the end of the cold war. i used to pick up books in elementary school with nuclear blast damage illustrations showing what happens to a person, car, building at various radii. used to have dreams of looking out my bedroom to see the nearby military base go up in a bright flash and feel the heat on my face. this shit sucks, nuclear war isn't winnable, it's not heroic or le epic or whatever it's the end. the end of everything.

  • He witnessed forced conscriptions...

    Long story short: I just walked to Poland. It was a hellish 20-hour journey undertaken in the middle of winter with thousands of refugees. I saw some terrible things:

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