261
submitted 9 months ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

Archive: [ https://archive.is/z7xcs ]

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] taanegl@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

See, there's this slow motion guillotine hanging over Putin right now, and for each month of successive losses, it'll slowly be lowered until it reaches his neck.

Then, after a new favourite of the oligarchy and the generals have rubbed a few backs and made a few promises, said favourite will come up from behind and place his foot on the blade to force it through Putin's neck.

That's only speculation though.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago

^ this is your brain on western propaganda

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

Good. Now also please give them the needed financial support

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago

That's right, fight to the last Ukrainian. It's a great investment.

load more comments (7 replies)
[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

There's no negotiation needed. Russia moving out of Ukraine and paying for all damage until everything is pre crimea. If that is all done, rebuild and paid for, then, they can negotiate for less punishment on top. That's the kind of negotiation you start because both sides have something to gain and not one to keep his unjustified war territory.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago

I don't know why people keep repeating this given that it's obviously not happening.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago

Not a single paragraph about the actual demands of Russia. Which they have stated often enough. Basically they don't want NATO right on their doorstep. This is what this whole war was about. But somehow this is never seriously discussed in western media.

[-] Skua@kbin.social 70 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If this war was about having NATO on their doorstep, why is it an invasion of a non-NATO country twenty years after the first neighbours of Russia joined NATO? It's never seriously discussed because it's either a lie or unfathomably stupid, and whichever of those two it is doesn't much matter.

Just for a second, imagine you're a neutral country in eastern Europe. Russia has been fucking with Georgia and Moldova since the fall of the Soviet Union, and now it invades Ukraine for the second time within a decade. Russia has never touched a NATO country despite bordering several of them for literally decades. And then Russia acts all shocked when you say you want into NATO

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago

Yeah and Russia protested strongly every time. But Ukraine was their red line. Just because you didn't read it in western media doesn't mean it didn't happen.

I don't condone the invasion but it was predictable and a colossal "failure" of diplomacy if you look at it charitably. At worst it was a long term plan to force Russia into a conflict with the aid of western media to obscure the reason why this war was happening. Russia is acting just like the US would.

[-] Skua@kbin.social 37 points 9 months ago

So invading Ukraine fixes what for Russia, exactly? The fastest way to make more of Russia's neighbours join NATO is to show them that they're safer in NATO. Like Finland.

Ukrainians mostly weren't interested in joining NATO until Russia took Crimea. Russia pushed Ukraine towards NATO.

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

"Ukraine applied to integrate with a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) in 2008. Plans for NATO membership were shelved by Ukraine following the 2010 presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovych". Then the Euromaiden protests happened. Then Crimea etc.

It's pretty safe to assume that both Russia and the US meddled in the respective election through NGOs and whatnot. My point is that these are geopolitical games which both sides play and which should be reported as such. Then we'd have a chance to protest for peace negotiations. But as is there is an overwhelming amount of pro-war sentiment.

[-] Skua@kbin.social 27 points 9 months ago

Public support for joining NATO among polled Ukrainians was very clearly the minority up until Russia invaded.

But as is there is an overwhelming amount of pro-war sentiment.

There's an overwhelming amount of anti-invasion sentiment. People that support arming Ukraine support Ukraine's right to not have chunks carved out of it just because its neighbour has a bigger army.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

What are you talking about? There were no concrete plans for Ukraine to enter NATO prior to the invasion in 2014.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (23 replies)
[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 30 points 9 months ago

Then turning Ukraine into Russian territory is a bit counter productive no? That would literally bring NATO to Russias doorstep.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] FatLegTed@feddit.uk 28 points 9 months ago

But NATO already is on their doorstep. Norway, Estonia, Poland etc. Even USA is only a few mils away across the Bering Strait.

This is not about Ukraine joining NATO, that's a convenience.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's just such galaxy brain logic there. We've already built up a threat on your doorstep, so you shouldn't worry about us expanding that threat further. 🤡

Furthermore, Stoltenberg has now publicly admitted that this is in fact about Ukraine joining NATO

The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.

You gotta update your script now.

[-] randy@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 months ago

Basically they don’t want NATO right on their doorstep.

NATO is not the anti-Russia club. They're a defensive pact. Why would you be concerned about your neighbours agreeing to defend each other? Like a neighbourhood watch, perhaps. Maybe you'd be upset if you're planning to do the thing they're defending against. Which is all the more reason for those neighbours to band together.

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

NATO was founded pretty much explicitly as the anti-USSR club. And it doesn't even matter what it factually is - it's what Russia perceives it as. See their final ultimatum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin's_December_2021_ultimatum

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
[-] rdri@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think you're missing a paragraph that tells how the border between Russia and NATO increased twofold since (and as the result of) the invasion.

"Hey it's all about NATO. We always wanted less NATO at our doorsteps, and you can see we tried our best to achieve this. That backfired, yes, but we ask you once again to... Ask all those countries nicely to withdraw from NATO. Having NATO at our borders is not healthy for our people, you see... With all those bio laboratories... And parent№1+parent№2 policy that you force on everyone..."

[-] LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

I don't want people like you in my comments but no one acknowledges that. So weird.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (56 replies)
[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 months ago

America will never allow this war to end.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 98 points 9 months ago

You know who has total power to end this war? Putin. Just get the fuck out of Ukraine and it’s over.

There’s really nothing to negotiate.

[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago

They literally were negotiating at the start of the war for this exact outcome: Russia pulls out and Ukraine maintains neutrality.

Johnson threw a wrench in those plans.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 months ago

Sorry what? You’re blaming Boris Johnson for this now?

One person has the power to put an end to this: the person who started it. Putin.

[-] Skua@kbin.social 19 points 9 months ago

I've seen this Boris Johnson argument several times on here and never once seen anything even remotely approaching a convincing explanation of what leverage Boris ever had to do this. Like a deal for a white peace with Russia was on the table and Boris somehow twisted Zelenskyy's arm into fighting by threatening to not send weapons that wouldn't be necessary if there was peace anyway?

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] rdri@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Ukraine was never going to abort neutrality lol. Being a NATO member does not affect neutrality.

Also remember the Budapest Memorandum? Ukraine literally gave up nuclear weapons as instructed by Russia, for the promise that was broken.

I'd say the wrench was thrown by someone else. Or, rather, someone hit their own head by a wrench good enough to lose all mind.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)
[-] cupcakezealot 52 points 9 months ago

or because all putin has to do is stop invading ukraine. he doesn't get to invade and then negotiate to keep part of the place he invaded

[-] cranakis@reddthat.com 48 points 9 months ago

I think that if Russia got the fuck out of Ukraine, we'd happily let the war end.

[-] Doesntpostmuch@possumpat.io 41 points 9 months ago

Bad take. Why negotiate with an aggressor who is literally invading and trying to absorb a neighbor. You would be rewarding that behavior and Russia gets to stop their unpopular war at the same time.

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I mean, Putin won't either, the negotiations are just for gaslighting and propaganda. Basically it's about not negotiating with terrorists, America has plenty other wars going on and even without Ukraine intends to increase military spending. They don't need it, but it's not up to them if it ends.

load more comments (20 replies)
load more comments (16 replies)
[-] mashbooq@infosec.pub 26 points 9 months ago
[-] CultHero@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Why hasn't the cancer killed the mother fucker already?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago

It looks like dementia is Biden's bigger concern at the moment.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 21 points 9 months ago

My question is why is the US rejecting anything, isn't that a war between Russia and Ukraine?

[-] PakledBrain@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

That's the reason they're rejecting it. From the article:

“Barring a Ukrainian demand signal” for peace talks, “there’s unlikely to be a push from Washington,” he said.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

Is anybody actually so naive as to believe that Ukraine has any say in this?

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] kookaburra@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago

U.S. and Ukrainian officials say that the best Ukraine’s military can hope for in the coming year, especially without more American aid, is to defend its current positions. Even so, Biden officials say they are not entertaining the idea of pressing Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to negotiate with Mr. Putin.

This is the most eloquent. If you can't fight a war for win, then it's reasonable to try to gain some better results through negotiations. But the white masters don’t care about the losses of aboriginals.

[-] rdri@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Are you implying that white masters exist and implying that a European country can't decide what's better for it without consulting with white masters at the same time? Can I say that you are brainwashed by black masters?

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
261 points (100.0% liked)

World News

32303 readers
253 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS