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by watwut 1064 days ago
The true cost of Russian occupation is torture, massacres, rapes, stealing of property including whole factories and what not. It is oppression, language suppression and literal genocide. It is children taken away from parents to be Russified and abused.

> I hope you will remember then that a generous deal was on the table (no loss of territory except obviously Crimea

This is a lie. There was no nice believable deal.

In the first place, Russia did not had to start yet another war after lying about them not wanting it, but here we are.

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If that’s what you’ve let yourself be convinced is the present then, boy, are you not going to enjoy the future.
> If that’s what you’ve let yourself be convinced is the present then, boy, are you not going to enjoy the future.

The only one who's convinced themselves is you, you've convinced yourself that the Russians are saints who only do good and not the imperialistic, genocidal invaders that they are in reality.

saints who only do good

imperialistic, genocidal invaders

Rhetorical cluster munitions. One day you’ll run out of superlatives and then you’ll be forced to negotiate.

You know, if you were Ukrainian I’d understand the hard feelings. But I’m not getting the impression that you are.