Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky
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@LuFins-Dad said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:
A polite coward that lets the war continue killing people indefinitely,
In fairness, that appears to be the will of his voters. Democracy in action.
Education is extremely important.
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You guys talk as if the only two possibilities were status quo or Trump switching sides and completely adopting every last one of Putin’s talking points while shaking down our former ally.
Seems there might have been other possibilities.
“Don’t make me repeat myself”
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@Horace said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:
@LuFins-Dad said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:
A polite coward that lets the war continue killing people indefinitely,
In fairness, that appears to be the will of his voters. Democracy in action.
You may be right. The coward in this war is, of course, Putin, who alleges that he has 90% or more support of the Russian voters to pursue this war indefinitely.
The thought of free and sovereign Ukraine on his border is indescribably horrific to his existence. An existential threat beyond all others.
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@jon-nyc said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:
You guys talk as if the only two possibilities were status quo or Trump switching sides and completely adopting every last one of Putin’s talking points while shaking down our former ally.
Seems there might have been other possibilities.
Dismissing the fever dream rhetoric that I'm sure seems truthy to you, it is fact that the only plan the Biden admin had, was to continue current levels of support indefinitely. That comes straight from his national security advisor. There was no plan beyond that. They were intentionally avoiding any negotiations, preferring to leave that to Ukraine and Russia. Where do you suppose that plan was leading?
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@jon-nyc You could come out of your shell and be specific about the point you're trying to make, rather than accuse others of missing them. Deliniate the options you're talking about, the ones that are definitely better than what Trump is doing. Mine your twitter feed for the best such point you've seen other people make.
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I literally twice made a concise point fully expressed in a single sentence. Your refusal to understand it seems willful at this point.
Do you just wish I had said something else? Do you just wish I had my own war plan for you to critique? Sorry to disappoint.
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@jon-nyc Well, you have mental blocks against good faith interpretations of oppositional viewpoints, and this is not new. I understand your claim that there are other options. My response to you was to get you to delineate those options, and your peculiar brain jumped to the comfortable conclusion that I just didn't understand your point. And there it will stay.
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You should be asking what other options did Putin offer to end the war other than Ukraine’s unconditional surrender and the withdrawal of NATO from all former Warsaw Pact countries. That was and remains, as Trump will soon discover, Putin’s demands. So long as Putin maintained those maximalist demands, NATO membership, with the exception of Hungary and more recently Slovakia, remained committed to keep Russia in isolation and facilitate Ukraine’s ability to defend itself.
Sorry if you can’t wrap your mind around that, but the least desirable option was to reward the tyrannical aggressor for its unacceptable behaviour. Never worked in past and will not work in the present or future. No one other than that war criminal bastard Putin has blood their hands from this war.
‘a-blowe yow and be-kele yow wel, and comyth up all with your ease’ ~ attributed to Henry V
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@Renauda said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:
You should be asking what other options did Putin offer to end the war other than Ukraine’s unconditional surrender and the withdrawal of NATO from all former Warsaw Pact countries. That was and remains, as Trump will soon discover, Putin’s demands.
Then it is the conclusion that the conflict was set on rails towards, according to Biden's plans, as per his security advisor. Either that, or an escalation on the part of the west to keep the conflict from that conclusion.
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There seems to be an implicit understanding within NATO that the "war" being waged against them by Russia was a certain level of "war" below that of the sort of "war" where there are soldiers from those NATO countries fighting and dying. These levels of "war" might be obfuscated with certain rhetorical framings of what is going on here, but clearly the levels remain understood and respected.
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