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It’s best that this conflict ends sooner rather than later. I’ve heard that Ukraine is outnumbered 3 to 1 and is sending injured soldiers and teenagers to the front lines. There’s no hope of them winning. Hindsight is 20/20 and it’s clear that the Ukrainians’ best option would’ve been to surrender in February 2022 and negotiate a peace agreement when they still had some bargaining power. Now they have none and this guy will go down in shame as Ukraine’s worst leader.
Shit the fuck up you worthless fuck. Russian piece of shit.
What? Zelensky is Russian now?
They did have a peace agreement after Russia invaded…in 2014. Russia was handed Crimea. Yet, Appeasing dictators was proven yet again to not work. So, today they defend themselves from the invader.
We must continue to support them, we must continue to ensure Russia does not win their war of conquest.
You’ve lost the plot. More weapons can’t solve a lack of soldiers. Unless Western Europe/NATO plan to start WW3, the outcome has been decided. The humane thing isn’t to cheer for more war, but to understand that cheering for war itself was a mistake.
We were told Ukraine could win. We were told wrong. The people who gave us this false impression also told us we’d win the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last I checked, those wars didn’t result in the victory we were promised, either.
Every gun and dollar given to Ukraine is a gun and dollar used against Russia, one of the US's most obnoxious enemies. Every resource that Russia has to spend in the war is more expensive for them than it is for us, which will give them less resources to spend on being a pain to the US. Ukraine has almost no reason not to fight since losing means a loss of their country anyways, we could either take advantage of this opportunity or we can wait until Ukraine is weaker.
At least this take is honest about the disregard for human lives as long as it furthers the interests of the US.
The better option would be to not help Ukraine and allow them to be steamrolled by a genocidal Russia? That is somehow better for Ukraine? They are fighting for their lives, we must continue to give them the tools to not be massacred by the invader.
Get the fuck outta here.
Fuck off.
It’s better that Putin hangs.
Get lost
Found the tankie
There is a war of misinformation and propaganda (on both sides), the " I've heard" are especially worthless.
C'mon, you couldn't even TRY to go beyond the script?!?! 🤣🤣🤣
found the russian troll
Unfortunately you don't have to look very hard around here to find them. Lemmy is absolutely swarming with paid propagandists from the usual suspect countries.
Pathetic.
Wasn't that peace deal more in ukraine's favour at the time? And then their western allies ordered them to refuse it?
Yes. It was Boris Johnson who made the call and Zelenskyy did as he was told.
No.