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  Yes what America did in Iraq was wrong, what Putin is doing in Ukraine is wrong lmao
  It’s not that complicated, don’t invade sovereign nations and cause mass destruction.
context: Medvedev is kind of a dick. >
  
  He’s a special kind of dick >
  
  A very small, limp dick >
  
  More of a flaming asshole, imo >
  
  And dicks fuck assholes. >
  
  Russian attempt at genocide is foiled 
  Russian yells about genocide 2.0 
  That’ll show them pesky countries that deliver supplies and support >
  
  Russians so proud murdering Slavic people in Ukraine. >
  
  Medvedev talks too much. >
  
  He talks too much in an attempt to terrify westerners with the prospect of WW3. >
  
  It's for internal consumption >
  
  I think Medvedev and a lot of Russian propaganda isn't necessarily supposed to be for internal consumption. I think they're intentionally trying to come across as unreasonable and intransigent in the hopes that eventually over a long period of time the west will grow tired of supporting the war knowing that Russia cannot be reasoned out of Ukraine. 
  They're trying to make it known that the only way Russia is leaving is if they're kicked out physically and hope that maybe after a prolonged conflict the west will give up trying to do it and cut our losses. 
  I hope and don't think it will work but no one can predict the future. >
  
  The thing is, the only country with real losses that is supporting Ukraine is Ukraine itself. Everyone else is just kind of trading equipment for a weaker Russia, most of which is outdated anyway. That and monetary support, but that also goes towards weakening Russia, which is something I'm sure much of the west wants.
  I highly doubt Ukraine will give up, and I don't really see a reason for support to stop, as even outside the obvious moral reasons for it, the west enjoys weakening Russia without putting much at all on the line. >
  
  West does want a weaker Russia.  We are now seeing what happens when they have decades to gain strength.  Ukraine isn't their only target. >
  
  Why do people keep saying this?
  They are having enough fun trying to take and hold Ukrainian land. They have no way to sell a massive war effort towards anywhere else unless attacked. >
  
  This conflict is the proof that this wouldn't be the last time, if the international community had just let them do what they want. About five minutes ago they invaded and annexed Crimea, and everyone just shrugged, thinking that it might be a one off. Putin and his cronies didn't have to sell this conflict to anyone. Putin has control of the decision making organs of Russia. He just mumbled "uh well nazis" and the vast majority of the common people of his nation fell in line, both because they're down with it and because they have no other choice. The international community doesn't want WW3 so they won't intervene directly.
  If everyone else had again done nothing, this would very likely already be over and Putin would be sniffing out the next ex-soviet country to invade. Dude has imperial ambitions and doesn't need anything else.
  But of course the international community DID do something and thus for now Russia's capabilities have been curtailed. Mission partially successful at the moment from the perspective of everyone else, and now the goal is to bleed Russia as much as possible to buy a decade or two of reduced Russian ability to pull something like this again. >
  
  5 minutes*a big-ass number=8 years >
  
  I'm old AS SHIT and I just double checked, it was deffo 5 minutes ago. >
  
  I thought they were rescuing Ukraine…I guess burning means the same in Russian. >
  
  From their point of view, it is the United States that is the aggressively militant, hostile, and belligerent rogue nuclear state, with NATO as merely an extension of their military might; therefore any military aid sent to Ukraine on behalf of any NATO country is, in their view, sufficient evidence that they are justified in continuing the war even if it ends up destroying the whole country.
  While I have some serious doubts as to their ability to do so, I still believe that they will try. That is the part I really worry about; that, in the last year, they have not given up the fight despite fierce global opposition and getting sanctioned by virtually every country on the planet. Unless a critical mass of their troops mutiny against their commanding officers, they may be forced to fight to the bitter end.
  Which raises the following questions: in the ruthless calculus of war where the preferred outcome is minimal loss of life, is intervention to preserve the sovereignty of Ukraine at the cost of potential escalation towards a global war? If the preferred outcome is in status quo ante bellum, is it worth the cost of turning the war into a protracted conflict that goes on for many years longer and potentially affect as many people? These are the sorts of questions that must be thought about and answered right now, and honestly, they are questions I bet absolutely nobody, not a single person in our entire alliance ~~of glorified vassal states eternally subservient to the glorious American Empire~~, had any interest in answering. >
  
  Yeah let’s just let Putin destroy the country and do whatever. The US didn’t give a shit about Russia till they pulled this. Love the dictator apologists >
  
  Why, I’m surprised at you. “Just turn a blind eye and let them do whatever they want” seems to be the prevailing attitude here in the Western world regarding everything America does internationally. How do you not see yourselves in the mirror that is this entire “special military operation”? This is what the Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan Wars looked like to everyone outside your bubble: a rogue state invading another country under the extremely flimsy pretence of ~~civilising~~ ‘liberating’ them from ~~all their natural resources~~ their own culture. Mass killings, strategic bombings of schools and hospitals, torture and execution of civilians—atrocities you would never hear the end of if it were anybody else; but not only are people okay with this, they have a remarkable capacity for never even hearing about it. Don’t you have a sense of empathy? Don’t you care about the sanctity of all human life regardless of who they are? De-escalation is what I was hoping asking these questions would lead to, not ‘follow war with more war’.