If so, was it polled somewhere?

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      How is being pro russia and wanting war to end in any way compatible though? They invaded Ukraine. They literally started a war. That’s a pretty disgusting deflection tbh

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        NATO/US started the war when they couped the democratically elected Ukrainian government in 2014, and when the US installed regime started bombing civilians in the Donbass

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          Oh so Russia is just saving Ukrainians from US imperialism by bombing them and committing war crimes. Thank god for our wonderful leader putin o7

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            Where did I say any of that? I was simply correcting the poster about who the original instigators of the conflict were, and pointing out the fact that the banderite regime has been killing innocent Ukrainians for years, history did not begin in February 2022

            Acknowledging the US’s role in creating the conflict and the crimes of the regime they installed is not the same as supporting Russia’s actions

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        Russia started a war. Ukraine has two choices. Surrender and end the bloodshed, or fight tooth and nail and pour more innocent people into the meat grinder and then surrender. There is not a third option. Obviously they should choose the former.

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        We’re just not keeping our head in the sand here. Ukraine is not taking back Crimea, or even the Donbas. The counteroffensive failed horribly. Cheering for more bloodshed isn’t going to make a better outcome in the end.

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          “cheering for more bloodshed.” Are you telling on yourself? You act like a counteroffensive is supposed to be fast and easy. It’s not, war is bloody and deadly and Russia is not going to call for peace until they achieve their objective of overthrowing the Ukrainian government or achieving a peace deal where they can keep Ukraine’s economic sectors

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              You act like peace deals are the same thing as calls for peace. They can still have peace deals to appear they want peace when they started the war in the first place back in 2014

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                You act as if a peace deal isn’t literally someone calling for peace.
                Lmao what with the “infiltrators” that cannot be proven? The two oblasts have a large population that is ethnically russian. When a government that had spoken of cleansing russian influence comes into power, it is pretty understandable that that would foment separatism. At best we can prove Russia provided financial aid to separatists, and then later stepped in and negotiate Minsk I and II, which were both broken by Ukraine

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            Yall calling for the continuation of the war are telling on yourselves. Otherwise you’d fucking be fighting rather than advocating behind a computer for others to die. Too scared to go to Spain and fight the fascists?

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              Oh man the the US union should’ve just given up the civil war instead of continuing the fighting. Think of all the good Americans that will die. Let’s just let the confederates secede instead of having a bloody conflict

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            You act like a counteroffensive is supposed to be fast and easy.

            It’s September. Their window to make any gains in their counteroffensive has passed. Now they have to fight against the weather on top of the Russians.

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            The only progress the counteroffensive has made is in destroying Western materiel and getting scores of Ukrainians killed. They haven’t even reached the second defensive line yet. The total amount of territory retaken is like 100 meters of farmland. I’m calling it a failure because it is a failure.

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              Hey, it’s made a lot of money for the military-industrial complex too!

              You can’t call it a wash like that when, back home, the almighty line is going up.

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        They can either surrender now, or surrender when all the able bodied people have been killed for no good reason. Ukraine can no longer win this war.

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          “Ukraine should surrender so that they can spare their civilian and combatant lives to Russia which totally won’t abuse their land and people as they’ve done in the past”

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            Ukraine should surrender now while people still have families to come home to, instead of propagating senseless death.
            You’re also just making russian demands up? At no point during this war has Russia sought to annex the entirety of Ukraine, which it seems to be whate you are implying they will do.
            Please try to remain in reality.

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                There were pogroms and mass murders at the ground level and there were laws targeting Russian speakers from the governmental level. The weapons Trump was impeached for tying political favors to were being used against resistance militias. They were being used to bomb facilities built in the soviet era that pump hot water into people’s homes as the local method of heating during the winter. They locked over a hundred people in a building and burned them alive in it. They broke multiple treaties with Russia in order to do all of this. This was the lead up to the war.

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                What ethnic cleansing?

                Whoop, there it is! I’m quoting that for posterity before you delete this comment.

                You’re literally denying an attempted genocide right now, y’know that?

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                  What attempted genocide? You didn’t answer my question. I love the fascist playbook of “don’t play defense” in action.

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                    I’m not the person who you responded to.

                    I’m talking about the targeting of ethnically Russian Ukrainians in the eastern part of Ukraine (the Donbas region.)

                    There has been attacks against these people going on since 2014. Thousands upon thousands have died and more have been wounded in this low-grade civil war that became the prelude to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

                    Here’s a western article filtered through western intelligence describing the situation with some glaring oversights, namely that there has been ultranationalist paramilitary forces operating in the Donbas (Azov, Right Sector, C14, National Militia, OUN et al.) with tacit approval from the Ukrainian government since 2014 and that civilian targets have been routinely been used by the military and the paramilitary groups.

                    Here’s a short article written by a former USAID officer (!) published by The Atlantic Council (!!) that describes the problem with far-right militias in Ukraine, just so there’s no accusations of bias from me in this discussion.

                    They’ve literally been targeting civilians who are of the “wrong” ethnicity for nearly a decade now. If that doesn’t count as an attempted genocide, I don’t know what would.

                    Also that’s some cheap framing of the discussion btw. Fascism isn’t “don’t play defence”. I take it that you have gotten your picture of fascism from a particular, well-known YouTube series. If so, that series is critically flawed and it does a bad job of defining fascism and how it functions. But that’s a different discussion altogether.

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        Do you think we’re in charge of the Russian military? The war is going to end eventually one way or another. We might as well push for the path that preserves Ukrainian lives.

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          Are we in charge of the Ukrainian military? Not that it really matters, but still.

          Russia can unilaterally end the conflict. Ukraine cannot (yet). Calling on Ukrainians to surrender while they still want to defend themselves is cowardice. I would rather support their continued struggle.

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            You just insulted me with the sole thrust being that I’m not in your echo chamber.

            I’m referencing real world events. Do you not believe Ukraine broke both Minsk I and II as a lead up to the war? Do you not have google?

            e: And what’s this weasel bullshit where you slipped in ‘Ukrainians’ like I’m going after the citizens and not the government? The Ukrainian people haven’t had a legitimate government since 2014 when the one they actually elected themselves was deposed in a far right western backed coup.

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              Do you not believe Ukraine broke both Minsk I and II as a lead up to the war?

              What I think is that it doesn’t matter in the context of an aggressive war against a country that was not threatening Russia.

              Minsk I came about after the Russian military had invaded and annexed Ukrainian territory. The first of these two agreements is already taking place after the initial aggression and thus are not really factors in the question of whether Ukraine should defend itself from that aggression.

              With that said, Minsk I saw violations on both sides and fell apart for that reason. Minsk II was fundamentally similar to Minsk I and thus was going to struggle to escape the same fate. While the Russians claimed that Ukraine violated the terms of Minsk II, they also claimed that they were not a party to Minsk II and thus were not violating it with their own troop buildup. Of course, they also claim that Ukraine’s supposed violations of Minsk II were justification for further Russian invasion, despite claiming to not be a party to the treaty. That’s some duplicitous behavior and, again, if I were in Ukraine I would not want the Russian military in my country.

              All that said, the point that Minsk I and II are not justification for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They sure as hell were not justification for the initial invasion of Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk (not existing yet during those) and they’re not justification of Russia’s continued invasion deeper into Ukraine.

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                What I think is that it doesn’t matter in the context of an aggressive war against a country that was not threatening Russia.

                Lol well that’s just a fucking lie. Zelenksy was openly threatening to host nuclear weapons for Nato on the eve of the invasion. Do you have a selective memory or are you just fucking ignorant of the entire history of this conflict and should therefore shut the fuck up?

                Minsk I came about after the Russian military had invaded and annexed Ukrainian territory.

                They didn’t invade; they were already there. The legitimate government of Ukraine leased the naval base to them in Crimea and when the western backed coup government wanted to revoke the lease they simply stayed. Accuse them of squatting.

                The first of these two agreements is already taking place after the initial aggression and thus are not really factors in the question of whether Ukraine should defend itself from that aggression.

                Well that’s just fucking stupid. Peace treaties don’t count if they came after a war?

                Sorry you just lost my attention with that one

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                  Zelenksy was openly threatening to host nuclear weapons for Nato on the eve of the invasion

                  Do you understand that there’s a difference between hosting weapons in your country and (let’s say) invading another country and (for example) launching missile strikes at civilians? (And can i just say? That Wikipedia page just keeps going and going.)

                  Let’s also not forget about Russia continuously threatening to nuke Ukraine without commensurate nuclear threat from the other side. (They just keep doing it!)

                  Really, if we go back to the start of this (the pre-Crimea days), Ukraine had two futures. In one, it grew closer to Russia and came under the Russian sphere of influence. In the other, it grew closer to the West likewise. It was leaning in the direction of the West, but when Russia attacked it sure as hell pushed hard in that direction. Now everyone in the region wants to get in on NATO and Russia is claiming that’s “provocation”. That’s nonsense, and it’s shameful and pretty slimy to carry water for their nonsense.

                  They didn’t invade; they were already there…

                  I dunno how to tell you this but the entirety of Crimea is not Russia’s private naval base. No, not even if Vladimir Putin really wants it.

                  …western backed coup…

                  You mean the Revolution of Dignity??? That’s what you’re talking about here, right?

                  Well that’s just fucking stupid. Peace treaties don’t count if they came after a war?

                  No, that’s not the argument. The argument is that whether or not they broke a cease fire has no bearing on whether past or future invasions of their country are justified. The Russian invasion was unjustified from the start. It doesn’t magically become justified because Russia claims the other side broke a peace treaty. Russia could withdraw at any time. They could have even withdrawn to Crimea and probably been fine. Again, they claimed to not even be party to the treaty!

                  These are some pretty shameful arguments, overall.

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                    You mean the Revolution of Dignity??? That’s what you’re talking about here, right?

                    Oh shit I didn’t know they gave it a glorious sounding name. I guess fascists didn’t have anything to do with it and then immediately making a Nazi war criminal a national hero with a holiday on the first day of every year. Fuck I didn’t know you were going to post entire wikipedia articles with the name of the thing you googled to find it.

                    I guess when you overthrow the democratically elected leader of a country and then immediately start passing laws to marginalize his biggest voting bloc it’s fine as long as you call the coup something patriotic.

                    Yeah. Your arguments (i.e. using multiple question marks so as to mug to the audience) are pretty fucking shameful.

                    whether or not they broke a cease fire has no bearing on whether past or future invasions of their country are justified

                    Baby brain

                    It was leaning in the direction of the West

                    Are you just stupid, or are you deliberately lying right here? Yanukovych was couped precisely because he WASN’T leaning towards the west. Did he flee to Poland when your fascists were threatening his life?

                    launching missile strikes at civilians?

                    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/19/zrjy-j19.html

                    If you don’t want your civilians to be hit by rocket fire then you shouldn’t use them as human shields. And you shouldn’t support a regime that deliberately puts its own citizens in harms way to score propaganda points.

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        Damn too bad they’re not going to do that, so what should we do about that? We support a negotiated settlement to the conflict in order to achieve peace, you support marching every single Ukrainian person into a meat grinder to die. Which of is more right wing?

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          This isn’t about us. What “we” should do is to support and show solidarity with the side being attacked by an imperialist, dictatorial state and help them defend themselves.

          When the Finnish were defending themselves in the Winter War it would not have been just to say “they should just surrender to save their lives”. The Finns did eventually surrender, but only after they had stomped the Soviet army all across Finland. They continued fighting not to die but so that they could live.

          The Ukrainians are fighting now not to die but so that they can live in (relative) freedom.

          Again, this “we should just capitulate to whatever warmongers want” stuff is shameful and cowardly, doubly so for people on the Left.

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            Lol of all the examples, you pick another group of Nazis as a favorable point of comparison!! Wtf. Thank GOD the Soviets beat the Finnish Nazis in that war and then went on to beat the German Nazis after that.

            Also lmao at calling Ukraine a free country compared to Russia, it’s just as fucked politically even prior to this invasion, now they’ve banned all left wing parties and are putting up statues of Nazis all over the place, fuck off, this has nothing at all to do with freedom.

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              Finland allied with the Nazis after the Winter War, in an attempt to regain their sovereignty from the USSR. They were not allied with Nazi Germany during the Winter War–and after the war, the leadership of the USSR agreed that Finland was not a particular risk and could be left alone.

              Also lmao at calling Ukraine a free country compared to Russia

              Ukraine is a far, far freer country than Russia. Of that there should be no doubt. On what merit, what axis, is Russia a freer society? Perhaps there is one, but Russia today is a corrupt, dictatorial, fascist state whose ruling party routinely imprisons or assassinates its political opposition or just general dissidents. They’re also hardcore anti-gay, among other things.

              Ukraine did suspend a number of pro-Russia political parties recently. Even if it was specifically targeting left-wing parties that still pales in comparison to Russia’s treatment of political opposition and let’s not forget that Ukraine is currently waging a defensive war against Russia. Also Zelensky is Jewish so i doubt he is putting up Nazi statues or in favor of doing so. I presume you’re referring to activity of the Azov Battalion or some other group inside Ukraine and while those are dangerous and problematic, the Nazis in the Russian army are (I suspect) a more serious threat to the Ukrainian people right now.

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                Russia and Ukraine are basically the same politically, except for there are more Nazis in power in Ukraine. Prior to the invasion Ukraine was categorically ranked as the most corrupt country in Europe, Zelensky himself is in the Panama papers, they absolutely are not good on gay rights either, they overthrew their democratically elected president in 2014 in a CIA backed coup to put in a government handpicked by the U.S. (we can listen to Nuland picking the government on leaked phone calls), they’ve banned political opposition and all leftist parties (not pro-Russia, just all leftists. Being leftist generally means having semi sane takes like not wanting everybody in the country to die, so they had to be banned by the Nazi regime).

                Also I didn’t say Russia is a free country, but Ukraine is easily just as bad if not worse, it’s a total farce to make this about freedom or democracy or any of that shit. Hell if democracy in Ukraine was real the war wouldn’t be happening, Zelensky was elected to end the conflict in the Donbass, he went to the front lines and told the Nazis to lay down arms and they told him to fuck off lol. You can watch the video of that happening.

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                  Russia and Ukraine are basically the same politically…

                  Now you’re just saying shit you wish were true. Come on. There are some pretty big differences.

                  …except for there are more Nazis in power in Ukraine.

                  The president of Ukraine is Jewish and his family fought and died in WW2. This doesn’t mean there’s no problem, but that is not indicative of a country overcome by Nazis.

                  Your characterization is grotesque and you’re literally repeating Russia’s propaganda about the war. Do you not see that? Or do you see it? Do you know what you are doing with that argument?

                  they overthrew their democratically elected president in 2014 in a CIA backed coup

                  This is great, you pro-Russia fuckers are all using the same arguments so i get to re-use my links! You’re referring to the Revolution of Dignity, here, for those who don’t know.

                  And you’re going to have to provide a source and some details as far as what, exactly, you claim the CIA did. I haven’t heard any credible claim that they were more than indirectly involved in propaganda and if that’s the standard then Russia was doing the same damn thing if not more.

                  …we can listen to Nuland picking the government on leaked phone calls…

                  Presumably you’re referring to these leaks, where she talks about how (for example) she doesn’t think Vitaly Klitschko should “go into the government”. Well, Klitschko became Mayor of Kyiv in 2014 so that’s a bit of a blow to your theory.

                  …they’ve banned political opposition and all leftist parties (not pro-Russia, just all leftists. Being leftist generally means having semi sane takes like not wanting everybody in the country to die, so they had to be banned by the Nazi regime).

                  And this is just straight up factually wrong. None of this is correct.

                  Also I didn’t say Russia is a free country, but Ukraine is easily just as bad if not worse

                  I didn’t say you did. I asked: on what merit is Ukraine worse than Russia? You have made that claim multiple times but have not provided one, I see, and nor have you provided a source for your claim. Surely you’re not seriously going to claim elections or civil liberties, where Russia is much worse than Ukraine and not just a little worse.

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      imagine dying on the “war is bad” hill. i can agree on that point, and i don’t even need to politically align myself with real shitters and make a fool of myself in pseudo-public to do it!

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          Bro, this war is totally different to every other war, bro!

          Trust me, bro! I know we got duped into supporting:

          The Korean War

          The Vietnam War

          The war in Iraq

          The other war in Iraq

          The war in Afghanistan

          The war in the Philippines

          The war in Guatemala

          The war on Cuba

          The war in Laos

          The war in Cambodia

          The war in Somalia

          The war in Yemen

          The war in Libya

          The war in Grenada

          The war in Yugoslavia

          …but this time it’s an existential threat!! Trust me, bro!