What i don't get is: has anybody bothered asking the people who have lived in the affected territories (Donbass) what they want?
Why does it matter what they want? What next, are you gonna ask the people being sent to die? The only people who really matter are billionaires like Putin and Zelenskyy and what chickenhawks on ~~reddit~~lemmy want.
And how would they go about doing that? It's not like Russia wouldn't allow there to be a free vote.
Russia will come back and take it all, don't give them an edge. Trump will be on TV whining how Ukraine rejected his really good peace offering.
When ever Trump is upset I'm a happy person.
Nor should they.
Good
Given that Europe has had 4 years to start cranking up its military power and has failed to do so meaningfully, and the US looks like a vassal state of Russia at the moment, I feel this may become an inevitability if Europeans don't stop bickering about where exactly gets to make what, and starts actually making things, like with the 2 modern fighter projects (as Europe cannot make its own 5th yet alone 6th gen fighters), or the joint European (France and Germany mainly) tank project.
You might want to look into that because Europe absolutely is ramping up its military response.
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