• Mongostein
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    10 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.

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      10 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.

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        10 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.

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          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?

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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            9 months ago

            It’s an idiotic straw man to claim Johnson had some personal leverage over Ukraine. What’s actually being said is that Bojo was delivering the message from NATO to Ukraine that if they accepted the deal then NATO would not act as their guarantor and they’d be left on their own.

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        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.

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        9 months ago

        Do you still believe the UK is the empire where the sun never sets?? How the F would the UK even be able to influence these events.

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      Putin offered a solution for negotiation plenty times. It is solely Ukraine, not even USA, with the power to end this war. But Zelensky does not want to “mysteriously” die at the hands of USA, for denying USA’s terrorist economy their profits.

      There is nothing to negotiate. USA/NATO must and will lose, and its power shrink and disappear off this universe.

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        Putin’s “solution” has been to give him what he wants to stop his invasion. This is how bullies, terrorists, extortionists and facists “solve” problems they create. If you agree with that solution then you’re one or all of those too.

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          Then you might not have known about CIA’s failed coup in 2003 (Orange protests) or the one succeeded in 2013 (Maidan protests), or the leaked Nuland-Pyatt call.

          Westerners are THE most brainwashed “model” citizens that live in dictatorships, parrot the same state/military propaganda and project everything they do onto their “enemy” countries.

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            Nothing of what you said is relevant to the situation in Ukraine.

            I swear Putin cocksuckers are THE most brainwashed “model” citizens that live in dictatorships, parrot the same state/military propaganda and what-about everything they do onto their “enemy” countries.

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              Be original, Western parrot. We know you are a model citizen of some English Fascism country. (Yes, INGSOC from Hitler days is very much still alive, and none of it is socialism.)