Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine?

• lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  NATO has been encircling Russia for decades. You just want to justify it as “people choosing democracy” when the fall of USAID and NED just shows that they were regime change operations orchestrated by the US. If peace was the point, the Minsk agreements would have been respected. If saving lives was the point, the UK wouldn’t have told Zelensky to fight a war they couldn’t win. Nothing about this conflict has been about ukrainian interests. It always was and still is about russian and american interests. You want to argue that what Russia is doing is imperialism, but it is the US that wishes to balkanize the country, and THAT is actual imperialism. But of course that wouldn’t bother you.

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why do you think many of the nations that border Russia want protection from Russia? I’ll give you a hint it’s Russian nationalist superiority and their penchant for revanchism and imperialism.

    Nothing Russia has done in Ukraine is justified. It is morally equivalent to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

    You are defending the invasion and subjugation of a sovereign nation. Do not try to pretend you have any moral high ground.

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    • lorty@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Then why didn’t they respect the two Minsk agreements?

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