• Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I believe that degrading the army of one of the US greatest geopolitical world rivals at the cost of roughly 3% of the DoD budget is money well spent.

    They’re not gonna let you into the club just because you lick the boot leather. I believe the 100.000s of dead ukrainians are more important than some vague US geopolitical goal.

    The Ukrainians are fighting this war for their own purpose, to reject tyrannical rule.

    The ukrainians are forcibly conscripted and banned from leaving their country. They do not want to fight.

    The US didn’t impose this war, 100,000 Russians invading did

    Yeah one day putler just woke up and felt like invading, that’s what happened.

    If you think this is such a good war, go volunteer.

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      The Ukrainians could stop this war anytime they want, as could Putin.

      Reality is the Russians invaded. They rejected world order.

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        The Ukrainians could stop this war anytime they want

        The Ukrainian government could, the same government that banned every political party that wasn’t sufficiently anti-Russia. And the last time the people got to vote, they elected Zelensky who ran as a peace candidate. So no, the people of Ukraine, the ones being drafted and sent to the front lines, have very little say over whether Ukraine negotiates for peace.

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          Wait a minute…you expect a country to tolerate those sympathetic with a country.that they’re at war with?

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            I thought Ukraine were the Good Guys ™? Good Guys don’t repress political groups because they disagree with them, they should debate them in the marketplace of ideas.

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              The US jailed every leader of the US Nazi Bund as dangerous aliens, and by the end of December 1941, the US Government outlawed the German-American Bund.

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                “The american governemnt banned nazi sympathizers, please don’t look too closely into our post war rocket programs”