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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 102 points 1 year ago

I mean if a person does anything directly affecting a war (for any side) I'd say that person is a wartime volunteer.

Wartime volunteers that have taken up arms are a absolutely viable target for military strikes.

Just saying 🤷‍♂️

[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

So the US government is a viable target?

[-] mob@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Anyone considering striking US likely realizes the fallout from that strategy though

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

🎵 I don't want to set the world on fire... 🎵

[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

During the cold war, there were plenty of instances of fighting between us and soviet forces, not to mention the huge amount of proxy fighting done. Personally, I'm not interested in drawing up a sequel to the cold war.

[-] mob@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I hate to say it, but we are likely already in the sequel.

[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

As I see it, we're at a turning point. Either we continue a path of escalation, or we back down, either would be feasible given our current position, but that said current position isn't somewhere we can stay. We either need to accept that sacrificing some global influence is necessary to avoid foreign wars, or that maintaining our current global influence inevitably requires putting soldiers behind our words.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

This is a weird take... The war in Ukraine is largely being fought because Russia isn't going to stop with Ukraine. We're protecting our allies in Europe, and looking to prevent further escalation, not simply exerting influence on a far-away foreign war.

The escalating party is 100% the aggressing party that's invading a sovereign nation. That's Russia, not the United States.

I mean, unless you're speaking as a Russian citizen? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point of view here.

[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

This is the exact attitude I was trying to call out. We are absolutely escalating our participation in this conflict. Trying to strattle the line of participation, where nothing we do is our own fault, and neither are any of the consequences we face. Because I'm not sure how well you did in middle school geography, but the US is, in fact, not a part of Europe. This war has no direct impact on the US beyond the extent we choose to be involved.

Now if you view the benefits of involvement as greater than the risks, fine. That's a perfectly coherent position. One I don't agree with, but a rational position nonetheless. But to pretend our involvement is just a force of nature we have no control over? That's just a bunch of excuses to support involvement without having to openly commit to a position of involvement.

[-] habahnow@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Lol, we tried your strategy, it just just emboldened Russia. Remember their attach on Georgia? How about their first invasion of Ukraine? Obviously, Russia wants to do what they want to do, especially if there's no consequences. Let's try this different approach and see if they feel being violent still helps them secure their goals.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Also, "appeasement" in this context should be awfully familiar to anyone vaguely familiar with history. It worked soooo well last time....

[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Your point being? There's only one Georgia I would care if Russia attacked, at it ain't the one they did.

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[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

If you seriously think taking some backwater nowhere gives Russia the military capabilities to invade the US, I'd like some of whatever you're smoking

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ukraine is hardly a backwater nowhere. It's a major industrial and agricultural player in the region. There's a reason that Russia wants it so badly.

Historically, nations with an appetite for conquest don't get sated and keep going. It cannot be tolerated for a nation state to just unilaterally conquer to expand.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Are you seriously saying we should just stand back and let Russia take Ukraine?

[-] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I don't fucking care what happens in Ukraine

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Your previous posts suggest the opposite is true. I think you need to make up your mind.

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[-] orrk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think Neville Chamberlain had the right idea.

[-] PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I know a lot of Jews who’d take issue with that.

[-] letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Why though? There's been plenty of hot and cold wars, plenty of proxy wars.

This isn't special in that regard, except now using the propaganda talking points of view a fascist enemy is done without a hint of shame from the stooges who do it.

For a lot of reasons, yes

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Always has been

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