Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky

[LuFins Dad]

[Horace]

[LuFins Dad]

Here’s a simple fact. There was no resolution in the offing under Biden. The prior administration and the Europeans seemed absolutely locked in on supporting the Ukrainians enough to put up a passable defense, but not enough to allow them to actually win the war, either. The whole “wearing down Russia’s military” sounds good on a balance statement but is a ridiculously immoral and unethical view, in my opinion. Spending and wasting Ukrainian and Russian lives to no great ultimate effect.

Did Trump go about this the right way? No. He’s a dickhead. But something is at least getting done. So which is better? A polite coward that lets the war continue killing people indefinitely, or a dickhead that does and says mean things, but gets the war ended and gets a business deal done that reimburses our investments and also provides an immutable security guarantee. It also opens up an economic opportunity for Ukraine that was not being utilized before.

[LuFins Dad]

In 2017, we were all assured that Ukraine was corrupt and the Government filled with individuals gat we’re little more than thugs. Now the same people are touting Ukraine as he brightest and shiniest example of honest democratic governance. LMFAO

[Horace]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

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.

[Renauda]

@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.

[Horace]

@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?

[jon-nyc]

You missed my rather straightforward point entirely. Seems there were other options besides complete capitulation and status quo.

[Horace]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

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.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc I asked you to delineate the other options. Again, mine your twitter feed, and report back. Tell me the other options.

[jon-nyc]

Ok well in the future just say ‘I wish you had said something else entirely’ rather than pretending to not understand what I actually did say.

[Horace]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

No, you told me to be more specific while my point didn’t lack specificity at all.

I’ll repeat it one more time: ‘Seems like there should have been other options besides capitulation and status quo.’

[Renauda]

@Horace

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.

[jon-nyc]

Especially such a complete capitulation. It’s humiliating to be an American this week.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc A request to delineate what those options might be, is not indicative of a misunderstanding of the point. You jumped there because it's a comfortable conclusion to jump to. You jump to that particular conclusion with great regularity.

[jon-nyc]

Look I’m already bored of this so you’ll have to talk to yourself now but when you said my point wasn’t specific enough you clearly had missed it.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc Yes please leave and take your peculiar psychology with you, bye bye.