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      Yes Ukraine is free to ignore them. The western coalition funding Ukraine’s war effort is also free to stop doing so. I’m not saying this to express that I wish Ukraine to be pressured to settle, but instead to highlight that Ukraine is not a self-reliant actor in this conflict.

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      Here, in the US, people have difficulty accepting that America doesn’t have direct influence on all other nations.

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      Wasn’t Ukraine willing to have peace talks last year until our good pal Boris Johnson came in and wrecked it all?

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        I believe the peace talks fell apart once they discovered evidence of all the rape and murder committed by the russians.

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      Do you know anything about Ukraine or what Zelensky campaigned on for his election campaign? Do you know what Ukranians want? Are you Ukrainian?

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        I know they consider themselves a free, self-governing nation who can negotiate their own terms.

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            Russia seems to be completely reliant on others economically and militarily also, but that doesn’t seem to matter to you

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              Russia has its own military industrial complex that it inherited from USSR that currently outproduces all of NATO, and Russian economy is currently growing according to the IMF. If you can’t understand the difference between that and Ukraine then what else is there to say.

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                Russian MIC innovations (from the USSR days) was largely driven by Ukrainians, but that’s neither here nor there.

                What Russia has are deep stores. They cannot produce new aircraft without importing parts from the west. Not fixed or rotary. They are ramping up production of missiles, but so is Ukraine.

                Russia cannot even produce ball bearings. They aren’t producing new APCs, BMPs or MBTs. They are importing ammo from North Korea ffs. And seeing how badly their equipment has performed, I expect to see their weapons exports collapse. Their vaunted “Armata” turned out to completely suck.

                As for the economy, it is being artificially propped up by depleting foreign reserves. They are currently over-borrowing yuan to attempt to correct. And you really have to be a complete idiot to believe any official Russian data.

                Russia is holding on for dear life in the hope that Trump wins the elections.

                It’s almost like we live on different planets.

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                  Imagine genuinely believing all that. It’s pretty amazing to see what guzzling western propaganda out of a firehose does to a mf.

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      I know it’s hard for a NAFO bot to understand, but Ukraine lost its sovereignty when US overthrew the democratically elected government in a violent coup.

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    I don’t believe this for one second. I haven’t heard anything from the Ukraine administration that would suggest in any way that they are interested in peace talks. In fact, their recent choice of putting a Crimean Tatar as the Minister of Defence suggests that they are serious about taking Crimea back from Russia. I hear nothing but absolute resolve by both the Weat and Ukraine to keep fighting until a Ukraine victory.

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    Great, another Hexbear brigading thread. Hexbear needs to be defederated, it’s a bunch of fake communists spreading authoritarian propaganda.

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      Agreed. Hexbear and lemmygrad idiots are pretending to be all for peace and yet support the war mongers in russia.

      These instances are a magnet for dishonesty and propaganda. Plus they have a 4chan attitude towards discussions, i.e. they keep shifting goalposts if you press them and throw absurd statements at you while doing so. There is nothing redeeming of those places.

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      They didn’t even read the article either clearly lol

      One Baltic official, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic, told The Hill that Baltic states are concerned that pushing Ukraine into negotiations will have dangerous ripple effects throughout the region.

      This is the “fears of peace talks”

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        I didn’t say that and I’m pretty sure you know that’s not what I meant.

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          There’s a lot of silly and disingeneous people on this app, I have to take their written word at face value. You seem to think ad hominem attacks are worth detracting from the article published in The Hill, a news source that would normally fit your ideology. So even when your own trusted media is reporting that Ukraine’s a geopolitical and moral mess, instead you’re claiming it’s a group of people spreading propaganda. I think you don’t care about Ukranians you just want to be right.

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    Russia has done horrible things to the Ukrainian people for a good century now. I hope the Ukraine doesn’t get pressured into giving its land and people over to Putin. Any deal needs to give Ukraine all its territory back, and for Russia to keep its military off their border.

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        I’m pretty left leaning, and I’m against any fascist state trying to turn its neighbors into vassal states for its interest. And yes, that means being against a lot of what the US does as well.

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        Are you making fun of someone for parroting US talking points, while yourself parroting Kremlin talking points?

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        What has Ukraine Czechoslovakia allowed to have happen [sic] to it’s [sic] ethnic Russian German population comprising a decent portion of the east of Ukraine [sic] West of Czechoslovakia done during it’s [sic] time?

        The settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace.

        • Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, September 30th, 1938.

        More context:

        The Munich Agreement[a] was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.

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      It really depends. If Russia gets to keep territory it conquered, keep children it kidnapped, not pay for the destruction and murder it wrought, see sanctions lifted and proceed to immediately re-arm and continue on its path of indoctrinating children into becoming fascist warriors for the next round, I wouldn’t call that peace.

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    Wow, that is some bad title. I would say concerns are justified if Russia can just keep annexing chunks from other countries. It started with Georgia and Ukraine and we can see the same events happening in Moldova currently.

    Also if Russia were to share a proper border with Poland then that’s pretty much guaranteed WW3, Poland hates Russia with a passion.

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      Pull your nose put of Putin’s ass. Putin doesn’t want peace, he wanted to steal juuuust a little bit more and at this point he just hopes not to be assassinated by his cronies for fucking everything up

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        You probably love the ass eating fetish too much I guess. Go back to the Warsaw Pact and tell me who broke it in 90s for “western expansion”, or why did US ex-VP Dick Cheney said their goal is to balkanise Russia, or why there were biochemical factories in Ukraine near shared Russian border.

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          I love how you just make shit up without any evidence.

          I take it you really believe that Putin is executing a three day special operation to rid Ukraine from Nazi’s?

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            make shit up without any evidence

            Can you stop projecting and tell me where Putin ever said this?

            Putin is executing a three day special operation

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              Are you kidding? This is what has been claimed countless times since day one of the invasion. It’s the official position of the Russian government.

              Fuck Putin and fuck you

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                Claimed countless times by deez nuts. You have no official source from Russian government as proof. You rely on the Big Lie aka “what has been claimed countless times” by West. Do you have a brain to think for yourself, and check if something is even true, regardless of how much it is repeated ad nauseam?

                Let some fresh air in your head, headass. And think by yourself for once.

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                  https://www.rt.com/russia/550408-special-operation-putin-donbass/

                  First result on Google. Rt is the Russian government controlled news agency.

                  It quite literally has the words even in the URL. And this is one of MANY announcements about the “special operation”

                  You’re either a troll, Facebook conspiracy theorist, a paid Putin puppet or just a really really dumb little boy.

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    “Mother Russia is strong”

    Oh god, you are funny.

    Mother Russia is near death at this point. The world has seen that the Russian army can’t even invade small parts of a country that is a fraction if its own size. Corruption in your army os so rampant that your vehicles have been falling apart by themselves.

    Mother Russia is the laughing stock of the world, at this point and due to the genocide being perpetrated, it’s also hated and a black sheep for decades to come.

    Russia won’t be able to get high tech equipment anymore dor anything.

    Your mothers lost their sons because all the smart and rich ones fled the country. Phuket has a nice “alternative invasion” of young Russian men that fled your country and its a single example. Young men that now are removed from your economy and that is on too of the thousands of dead of your shitty laughingly called “smo”

    Rich countries no longer want to trade with Russia so your mother is limited to the few countries left that will squeeze her balls because they know they can.

    Be careful mother Russia, china has seen how disgustingly weak you are and might help a few other areas in Russia to revolt and become independent Chinese pawns.

    Mother Russia is fucked, and if you don’t know that then you’re even more pathetic than I thought.

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    “SMO” really shows where you get your info from. You support a dictator / maffia boss, you support genocide, and you are on the losing side.

    Your shit army couldn’t even invade a country properly because of all the corruption going on and now you’re being kicked out.

    Russia is the laughing stock and black sheep of the world and it will take decades to rid itself of that mark. Your smart and strong men flew the country because fuck that, they’re not dying for Putin’s bullshit. The only few counties left willing to trade with you are squeezing your balls because they know they can. Russia hasn’t been this week since it’s founding, and you better start worrying about olgout other borders and your internal affairs. Russia is what it is because it suppressed millions. Now that it’s falling appart, those suppressed will stand up, and china, I’m sure, would love to annex a piece of Russia.

    You’re fucked.

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    …I’m sure Ukraine would gladly put down their arms and watch Russia fight eastern European countries instead, if they really want to make this their fight instead of Ukraine’s.

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    Fears of peace talks

    Seems like mask off moment. Now i will read the comments if i suspect the resident liberal warmongers are still on their lines.

    EDIT: The condensed copium cloud over liberal posts is even denser than imagined, with multiple layers.

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        I’m guessing they fear that like in 2014, they will have to concede land to Russia, which is what they did NOT want to do. It’s not the fear talks they fear, it’s the result.

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        No one is cheering for the war, no matter how many times you say it.

        People may cheer for Ukrainian independence, or for their victories, but no one wants the war to continue. The war can end today, if only Russia decides to give back all the land they took by force, including Crimea.

        You’re building a strawman.

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          Ukraine doesn’t have any independence, no matter how many times you say it. Ukraine has a puppet regime that’s throwing the people of Ukraine into a meat grinder so that US can fight a proxy war with Russia. Meanwhile the only straw man here is the whole RuSsIA CaN JuSt GivE AlL ThE LaND BacK as if that’s a realistic scenario. Russia is winning this war, and the west is losing. There is no situation where Russia just packs up and goes home now. The only question is how many people are going to die before this war ends and whether there is an Ukraine left at the end of it.

          Anybody who supports continuation of this war is absolutely cheering for continued death of people of Ukraine and the destruction of their country.

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            Oh, Russia is winning this war? Is that why it didn’t end in their estimated 3 days? Is that why Prigozhin marched on the Kremlin? Is that why they’re asking North Korea for weapons now?

            So much winning.

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              Imagine looking at what’s happening with Ukraine’s offensive and still not being able to understand that Russia is winning the war.