[llamaimperative]

Don’t give yourself credit for understanding the “much more complicated” picture of the invasion than what other people are identifying.

You’re right here saying that it’s a resource grab. That’s what everyone else identifies it as too. You don’t have a more “complicated” picture or a more complete one, just one that’s devoid of a moral imperative.

[tessierashpool9]

i'm not giving me credit for anything. just saying how it is. so, what's your point?

[llamaimperative]

> as far as my observations go it's a little more complicated

It is literally not more complicated, as you’ve just laid out.

[tessierashpool9]

your explanation boils down to "russia is an aggressor and hence will aggress". i'm considering the context - so, my perspective is a little more complicated.

[llamaimperative]

Like "the US expanding NATO" haha. No one is coerced into joining NATO, ya goofball.

Yes, dictators who express imperialist ambitions and who fashion themselves after former emperors tend to engage in empire building. Ooooo so complicated!

[throwaway290]

My position as a russian, if you want something (resources, gas pipeline, whatever) you make a better offer than the other guy. it is called diplomacy, such a new concept. You attack = you are unilaterally at fault.

I heard so many times how ukraine "invited the attack" by behaving in ways russia didn't like. Tbh I feel like anyone who says that is a potential domestic abuser.

While Kagi is not good enough for an advanced user I see no problem buying it for a tech illiterate relative. But that is assuming Kagi doesn't literally pay in some form to Yandex for using their search

[cuu508]

They do pay Yandex https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

[frail_figure]

You don’t have to feed russian trolls. They dont care about morality or facts, they just spread propaganda

[llamaimperative]

Oh I know I have no hope of convincing them! But there are all sorts of less engaged people on here ready to be taken in by whatever slightly contrarian take they come across.