when russia invades ukraine

Total shutdown of any opposition: marking oppositional parties as terrorist organizations, jailing Navalny (and others) after poisoning him and others in the past, supporting Lukashenko who's has been doing exactly the same, removing its people's rights to demonstrate etc. There is no democracy there. It's Putin and his inner circle sucking the country dry and fucking over its citizens. It's not strange for European citizens not to want these types of regimes to expand, right? It's not weird that we're all not just idly going to sit by and let it go down, right?

without even realizing it you just described what's been happening in Canada and the United States. :shrug:
 
Look I'm not saying that every bit of information coming out of Ukraine is legit either. I know very well both sides are playing the propaganda game. I guess we can all agree on the fact that the fighting has been going a bit too well for the people of Ukraine so far. I'm really hoping they'll keep it up if it's all true, but I'm afraid there's a big chance they're losing big time in the upcoming days. Then again I don't know much about how this shit unfolds in general.

That being said Russia (and the way its leadership) has been behaving over the past decades has been horrifying to see. Total shutdown of any opposition: marking oppositional parties as terrorist organizations, jailing Navalny (and others) after poisoning him and others in the past, supporting Lukashenko who's has been doing exactly the same, removing its people's rights to demonstrate etc. There is no democracy there. It's Putin and his inner circle sucking the country dry and fucking over its citizens. It's not strange for European citizens not to want these types of regimes to expand, right? It's not weird that we're all not just idly going to sit by and let it go down, right?

I'm not saying I want this to escalate to a total war, because it would be devastating. It already is for the people of Ukraine. But they want to join the EU, they want to join NATO as a bunch of other countries have been pushed over the brink due to Russia's behavior now. Should we just let the criminals running Russia bully them into not doing this?

Ukraine can't join NATO. The requirements are clear and they haven't met them. They can join the EU if the union will let them. That's fine.

Right now this conflict is confined. Ukraine has had civil unrest and border disputes for years. These disputes haven't resolved peacefully. They now need to be resolved forcefully, and there is no reason to drag the world into war over it.
 
not to worry.. the sanctions and crashing russia's economy hasn't stopped the 40 mile long convoy but

The U.S. has solid intelligence that Putin is frustrated and directing unusual bursts of anger at people in his inner circle over the state of the military campaign and the worldwide condemnation of his actions, one former and two current U.S. officials briefed on the intelligence said.

That is unusual, they say, because Putin, a former intelligence officer, usually keeps his emotions in check.

“He is no longer the same cold-blooded, clear-eyed dictator that he was in 2008,” former CIA Director John Brennan said.

so it's all good
 
The conflict is entirely the creation of the United States. There's two issues at hand. First, the aggressive expansion of the anti-Russian offensive alliance NATO. After USSR fell, Russia was promised NATO wouldn't expand eastwards, which it did immediately twice and again in the 2000s. Russia's (USSR's) bid to join NATO has been rejected three times and NATO acknowledges publicly that Russia is their #1 security concern. This part is about Americans holding on to their unipolar hegemony, regardless of the price to pay. It helps when America rarely has to pay the price for the geopolitics it engages in.

Secondly, America does not like the Nordstream 2 pipeline project and has therefore been slowing and sabotaging it for 20 years. Germany is dependent on Russian liquified natural gas and the pipeline it has been using crosses through Ukraine. Ukraine fairly openly steals LNG and takes a cut for being a middleman. The US wants to cut supply through Ukraine, which it has now managed, and wants to stop the NS2 pipeline in hopes that Germany will buy LNG from the US. To accomplish this, the US spent 5 billion dollars overthrowing Ukraine's democratically elected government [note: any government not in lockstep with US demands is illegitimate by default] and installed aggressive puppet nationalists, because it was obvious they would go overboard with the Russian minority in Ukraine. Of course that happened immediately, going so far as a few Russians burned to death by the Azov battalion in 2015. In 2014, the Ukrainian satrap government passed multiple anti-Russian laws and was pretty open about the fact that they were about to turn Ukrainian Russians into 2nd class citizens. This led to the rebellion in the Donbass and Luhansk. The same year, the Minsk Accords were signed, which Ukraine did not follow. Another round came by in 2015. In the 2nd agreement, a plan was laid out to return the rebel-held territories back to Ukraine (by disarming the rebels) in exchange for significant regional autonomy. Ukraine "signed" the agreement, then spent the next seven years doing nothing to carry it out. Instead, they accelerated their shelling of the rebel regions, which saw the Russian deaths peak in just the past few years, according to the Red Cross.

Recently, the jew Zelensky has come under increasing pressure from the nationalists, including large public rallies, who accuse him of not being confrontational enough with Russia. He has asked first Trump and now Biden to openly support his government, to ease this pressure, but his begging has gone unheeded. Therefore, he has become increasingly antagonistic, including threatening to look into acquiring nukes for Ukraine. He's off his rocker. Finally, after more shelling and no diplomatic resolution in sight, the rebel regions called for Russia to intervene.

So there's your Ukraine conflict.

America, the great satan.
 
it's incredible how fast yall went from this isn't going to happen to it was the united states fault

:joop:

hasn't even been a week
 
get bogged down invading ukraine, tank your economy, get sweden and finland to join nato, what a perfectly sane thing to do

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Please remember to frame your response with a comparison to the Avengers, Harry Potter, or Star Wars (sequels only).
 
She's got a lot of red in her ledger, although he'd probably disagree with sending an army from Germany through Poland to attack Russia.
 
Imagine a drunk pissing on your shoes for 8 years and then playing the victim card when you finally slap them in the face. Then, when you point the finger at the assholes who've been egging the drunk on, paying for his alcohol all night, everyone in the bar gets all self-righteous and feigns empathy for the drunk while condemning you for being a bully.
 
imagine being invaded by putin 8 years ago and having crimea, donestk, and luhansk taken away from u and a war in the donbass started by the invaders and then being blamed for getting invaded again
 
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