• Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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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”