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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Fears of peace talks

What kind of bullshit Orwellian headline is this? Peace is GOOD, stopping the bloodshed is GOOD. We WANT less people to die.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somebody think of the Lockheed shareholders!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Poor bastards need more stock buy backs

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Inb4 "acksually killing thousands over lines in the sand is good" rhetoric

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Too late, that shit is all over this post already

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

A real mask off moment there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only reason I opened the article, "whatchu mean fear of peace talks?!"

Like I get it, Ukraine shouldn't capitulate. But ending the bloodshed is a good thing, surely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To what end though? Freeze the border where it is now and give Russia another few years to build up force for round 3?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suppose that's up to Ukraine, right? They're the ones fighting so it makes sense for them to decide what terms they'd be willing to accept.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, you didn't read the article? The fear is not about peace talks, it's about support from the US forcing them while Ukraine is making progress.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue is that we've already tried the whole peace thing before. Remember the Budapest Memorandum? The Minsk Protocol & Minsk II? The Partition & Friendship Treaties?

I feel like the heart of the issue is that Russia doesn't want peace. If it did, we would not be here in the first place.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean the Minsk agreements Ukraine refused to implement for 8 years, and the west has now admitted were designed to buy time to arm Ukraine for the proxy war. Not really helping your case there bud.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...Ukraine refused to implement for 8 years, and the west has now admitted were designed to buy time to arm Ukraine for the proxy war

[citation needed]

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can't even be bothered to google?

No, I'm invoking Hitchen's Razor.

While I will concede the Minsk Agreement, there's still the issue of the Partition Treaty, the Treaty of Friendship, and the Budapest Memorandum. All of which were meant to encode Ukraine's territorial sovereignty.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Claiming there is no evidence for something that's well documented is just flaunting your own ignorance. All of the treaties you mentioned were respected by Russia until US overthrew a democratically elected government in Ukraine in a violent coup. A fact that's, once again, has been extensively documented in western media. It takes stunning amounts of intellectual dishonesty to ignore this and peddle your narrative.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck off with this shit dude. We had a revolution to tell the Russian stooges to GTFO. You don't get to gaslight a people for the choices they made. Your bias is showing моска́ль.

Don't bother responding.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I'm not responding to you, but to other people reading the thread. You had a far right coup that US ran, and that's just a basic fact. Now, your coup regime is destroying your country because US wanted to weaken Russia. Now that the regime is running out of people to throw into the meat grinder they might even come for your dumb ass. One day you're shit posting on lemmy and the next you're in a trench getting blown up by artillery so that Raytheon stock can go up a few points.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The fear is that there is pressure for peace talk conditions to be less than fair to Ukraine, that this would be little more than appeasement of Russia, like what happened with Czechoslovakia in the 1930s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hill is a pretty conservative outlet but this is a disturbing headline for sure. The only way to end the war is with peace talks, there is no other option. The better Ukraine does on the ground the better they will do in the negotiations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Always pay attention to the commenter‘s instance. All three above are hexbear users, so expect a heavy pro russian stance.