cosecantphi
@cosecantphi@hexbear.net
- Comment on Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war 2 weeks ago:
Russia’s border with Ukraine is its most vulnerable land border, and Ukraine in NATO means a hostile military alliance with direct access to said border with the ability to militarize it with nuclear capable cruise missiles: eurasiantimes.com/analysis-us-withdrawal-from-ant…
This was not a revanchist land grab nor was it resource motivated, the regions Russia annexed were for the most part already in a several years long civil war against the post Maidan coup government which was carrying out a campaign to ethnically cleanse eastern Ukraine of Russian speakers. By 2022 Ukraine had broken both Minsk treaties in which it promised to cease these ethnic cleansing campaigns. orinocotribune.com/former-german-chancellor-merke…
As for why the US is fickle with military support, I imagine it’s because the US is very aware by now Ukraine will lose this war and simply does not see a reason to continue wasting weaponry when the war has already served its purpose in destroying Russian relations with Europe and putting a newly minted failed state on Russia’s border for it to deal with in perpetuity.
- Comment on Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war 3 weeks ago:
Ukraine joining NATO has been Russia’s clearly stated red line for decades, guarantees for the non-expansion of NATO into the former Eastern Bloc, Ukraine chief among them, was even a major condition for the Soviet Union to agree to dissolve. Then NATO and the US organized the Maidan coup, and Ukraine started ethnically cleansing Eastern Ukraine of Russian speakers to the point that Ukraine was in a civil war with the breakaway republics.
Russia tried to deal with this diplomatically for many years through every channel at their disposal, but as it turned out NATO, the US, and Ukraine were negotiating entirely in bad faith to give Ukraine time to militarize. This war was several decades in the making and Russia was not at all the aggressor, even if they severely miscalculated what the cost of the war would be.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 1 year ago:
No, I read what you wrote. I am upset about exactly what you wrote. I want you to listen to trans people and their experience. I want you to realize your experience as a cis person makes your opinions irrelevant on the matter and if you want to be a good ally you need to purge transphobia from the spaces you moderate.
- Comment on Do you allow transphobic mods? 1 year ago:
Why should we engage in good faith on your “ideas” of wanting to fucking murder us with your bigotry? Unironically, the world would be better off without you.