ajoebyanyothername

@ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨place yer bets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about Shelbyville, why would we want to marry our cousins?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Firstly, basing your opinion of someone on the instance they signed up with is…interesting.

  Secondly, I didn’t mean that in the sense of they literally couldn’t make the demand, but that Russia danced Ukraine not join NATO, despite having no standing to make such a demand. Ukraine is a sovereign nation that can make its own decisions, they didn’t need permission from Russia. Even the quoted article acknowledges that Russia had no grounds for an invasion, and it’s generally in support of Russia’s position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “NATO expansion was legal but predictably provocative. Russia’s response was entirely predictable, if illegal, and has proven very costly to it. Ukraine’s de facto military integration into NATO has resulted in its devastation.”

  From your suggested reading, this stood out to me. The crux of any argument in Russia’s favour seems to be that they were unhappy at the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, and thus felt justified acting preemptively. But ultimately, that was never a demand Russia was in a position to make, so any aggression on their part is not defensible on those grounds, in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird flu⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m struggling to follow your logic there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cowboy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cows don’t look like cows on film, you gotta use horses.