Comment on Trump halts all military aid to Ukraine after White House clash with Zelensky
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoZelensky (with support from Europe and previously USA) wants to continue being a dictator without elections.
Is that actually true? Because that sounds like a very pro-Russia take and doesn’t really jive with the approval ratings I’ve seen, which are still positive (trending down, but still positive).
The problem with elections is they just aren’t feasible without a ceasefire, and Russia isn’t interested in that. So if an election happens in the current climate, it’ll be heavily biased and I don’t think anyone will really accept the outcome. Russia wants a pro-Russia stooge, Europe wants someone pro-western, Zelensky wants to remain in power, and I think Ukraine will want someone else soon if Zelensky can’t end the war. It’s a crappy situation, but if Zelensky wins, there’s no way Russia accepts the outcome.
I don’t know much about Ukrainian politics, so I don’t know what alternatives there might be. But I do know Ukrainians should decide that, and that’s not feasible if Ukraine capitulates to Russia.
bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 month ago
It doesn’t make it false.
You believe in “approval ratings” from a country which people are forbidden from leaving, where people are mass kidnapped off the streets (and then either die or get tortured by Zelensky’s regime), where news media are censored (you are basically getting sent to die if you write something Zelensky does not approve of).
What other fairy tales do you believe in?
Dozens of countries did elections in the wartime (including US). This is only an excuse for Zelensky to stay in power.
USA and Russia are literally pushing for those elections, they will accept them. Most of the countries would probably do the same (except a few EU countries maybe) if USA/Russia tell them to.
But that’s exactly what I am trying to tell you - we CAN’T decide that. You literally support a dictator that prevents us from deciding anything. How are we supposed to decide anything if we cannot vote??
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s the best I have. The alternative is believing Russian propaganda, who are the aggressors here. Collecting accurate polls is nigh impossible though.
Don’t forget that Russia also uses conscription too and has similar issues, and the US did as well. This isn’t some crazy, unique thing in Ukraine.
I can’t speak for others, but the US hasn’t been occupied since 1812 (unless you include territories during WW2), and the election of 1812 didn’t have issues because the British were largely fighting defensively for most of the war.
After a quick check, it seems the UK postponed elections by extending parliament’s term during WW2 until 1945, after the Germans surrendered but before the Japanese surrendered. So there’s absolutely precedent here.
And both are going to heavily interfere and neither will accept the results if it’s not what they want.
And how is your vote supposed to count if you’re sandwiched between two superpowers each heavily invested in the outcome of the election? The war needs to end before a proper election can happen, and just ending the war now won’t likely benefit Ukraine long term with no major side considering Ukraine’s interests (Russia wants land, no Zelensky, and no NATO, US wants mineral rights, Zelensky wants to stay in power, and EU countries want a NATO border w/ Russia).
It must absolutely suck being in Ukraine right now, but regardless of who is selected to mediate, Ukraine will lose.
bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 month ago
So believing one propaganda is better than believing another? Zelensky’s propaganda doesn’t even make any sense, how come everyone supports him, yet no-one joins the army and thus the need for a hundred thousand TCC “draft officers” roaming the streets and hunting people? How does that make sense to you?
Russia conscripts, that’s true (although there are also a lot of volunteers joining the army due to monetarily incentives, in contrast to Zelensky’s regime which treats us as his slaves). Zelensky’s regime kidnaps people off the streets. uadraftmuseum.ch Masked people with rifles are hunting people, beating people, putting people into vans to send them into the meatgrinder, in front of their crying mothers/viwes trying to fight them off (who in the extreme cases process to suicide bomb the draft centers in revenge…). This is how much people hate Zelensky’s regime, and you are believing in Zelensky’s approval rating…
There definitely is. It doesn’t change that the opposite is also possible, if Zelensky really wanted to (but of course he doesn’t, war is the only thing that keeps him in power).
“Interference” is what happens with every election ever, it’s just that sometimes it’s used as an excuse to not accept the results of people’s will.
“Neither will accept the results” is a speculation/opinion that I don’t think is based on anything.
Just like in every other election ever.
Well, remind me, who is against this war ending? Is it Putin? Is it Trump? Is it people getting kidnapped and sent to “fight” it? Or maybe it’s Zelensky? I don’t see a realistic scenario of war ending with Zelensky in power, he is going to fight until the very last of us is dead. That’s why there must be elections.
It already did. It loses more and more territory every single day. All the “counter-offensives” but one were total failures. The Kursk gamble is falling right now (the offensive that was tried a month ago failed so spectacularly that medias are not even talking about it…). But some people want it to continue until there are no more people to sacrifice.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Easy. People may support the idea of resisting Russia, but don’t want to fight themselves.
Draft dodging wasn’t unique to the Vietnam War in the US, it also happened during WW2. It turns out people don’t like dying.
This is true for a lot of things. People can be in favor of the death penalty as long as someone else carries it out.
Well yeah, Ukraine doesn’t have money.
The numbers make some amount of sense. It was 70%+ at the start of the war, and now it’s barely above 50%. Most dictators give themselves a wider safety margin (look at election numbers in Russia or Venezuela).
So until I get better numbers, that’s the best I have. And suicide bombings rarely indicate the majority opinion.
The US is famous for regime change, and Russia is basically doing that now in Syria (and losing), what are you talking about?
No side is interested in it ending without achieving their goals. Everyone seems to want to play with Russian and Ukrainian lives, and it’s disgusting.
But what’s even more disgusting to me is a foreign power coming in and taking advantage. The US wants Ukraine to capitulate so it can plunder its natural resources, so all those Ukrainian lives would’ve been lost for nothing.
If western powers want to help, they should send troops. Failing that, they shouldn’t be at the negotiating table. Maybe peacekeepers step in to enforce a ceasefire so an election can happen, but that should be it.