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ChristerMLB@piefed.social 3 days agoYeah, problem is that you lot have been going on about how the war will inevitably and swiftly end in a Russian victory every day since the war started - often in the same hyperbolic way that you’re writing now (see attached image). The sources I’ve preferred to follow have been clear from the beginning that this is going to take a while, and that the outcome is not certain (aside from the fact that it will be horrible for both Russians and Ukrainians)
Was it against international law when the Banderites engaged with their war against Russian speaking civilians in the Donbass for 8 years
Civil war is not against international law, but of course that’s not quite what the war in Donbas was. Either way, you’re sidestepping the point.
Transform2942@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I don’t speak for anyone else regarding the Ukraine war. When this war started I originally favored the Ukrainian side.
Frankly, now is the time for hyperbole. The Ukrainians are still critically short of men. That has been true for years and keeps getting worse. If I was trying to be persuasive maybe I would be more circumspect but as I mentioned I don’t really care right now.
If the Ukrainians really had any chance of winning, they would not bother with media counter-offensives, wunderwaffen obsession, or absurd inflation of Russian casualties.
It definitely is not whataboutism, it’s literal cause and effect. Doing years of ethnic cleansing is causus belli.