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by dontlaugh 1181 days ago
Something else happened first in 2014: a coup to replace the elected president with a NATO-friendly one that talked about NATO nukes.

It was also largely led by fascists which were later absorbed into the official state army, most famously the Azov Battalion. It also involved the murder of trade unionists in Odesa and the beginning of the cleansing of ethnic Russians in Ukraine.

There are no good states involved in any of this. None of them care about the majority of people in any of the involved territories, who would benefit only from peace.

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> There are no good states involved in any of this. None of them care about the majority of people in any of the involved territories, who would benefit only from peace.

I think the state that invaded is the bad one, after all, they are the ones who solely took action that has resulted in many thousands of Ukrainian civilians, including children dying.

But honestly? your response is just more evidence that peace cannot be had with an agreement, you just unilaterally ignored that Russia promised they would not invade.

So why again should Ukraine trust anything Russia puts in agreement they will throw out whenever its convenient again?.

Asking for NATO nukes and killing ethnic Russians is breaching the same agreement later breached by invasion. Why would anyone trust the Ukrainian state either?

And yet states that don’t trust each either enough to be at war still manage to negotiate peace, historically. The US preventing negotiation just prolongs this war that benefits the US.

> killing ethnic Russians is breaching the same agreement later breached by invasion.

This provision is not in the Budapest memorandum so that’s just plainly false.

> Asking for NATO nukes

I’ve not seen any evidence that Ukraine asked for NATO nukes could you provide some?.

> And yet states that don’t trust each either enough to be at war still manage to negotiate peace, historically.

Historically Russia creates conflicts freezes them and then starts them again once they rearm.

So what’s different this time?, the answer is nothing, if we allow Russia to continue they won’t stop doing this.

So in reality there’s only one solution, the forcible ejection of Russian forces from all of Ukraine.

Somehow you end up arguing for more Ukrainians and Russians to die.
> Somehow you end up arguing for more Ukrainians and Russians to die.

Your lack of a response to any of my points makes me thing you have no answers.

Why did you spew blatantly false information and not even bother to try and back it up?.

For what its worth im all for less Ukrainians and Russians dying Unfortunately for now the Russian government is insistent that only happens by more Russians temporarily dying.