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Make up your mind. You don't get to decide which facts matter and which don't. Every fact you've thrown out has been devoid of the critical context. Every fact I've thrown out you have said "doesn't matter because it isn't the right fact".
You're right, Russia should have returned every one of those planes immediately. What a doofus you are.
No you fuckwit. It's the sanctions. Goodwill doesn't allow US companies to sell parts to Russia under fucking sanctions.
LOL, sanction-money. You're so delusional. The West is still trying to figure out if it should STEAL the money and assets of Russian citizens that were held in accounts in Western institutions. It hasn't done so because it has no international legal basis for doing so, and if they did it would open up precedent for retaliation by every colonized country in the world to seize US assets. That money, however, while not seized, is still frozen, so from the Russian perspective it literally doesn't matter because the assets are unusable while they remain frozen. The USA is not doing it because of a desire to maintain goodwill. They already collectively punished Russian citizens by freezing the assets. The seizure would create so much backlash from the rest of the world, it's a self-preservation technique. Seizing assets in German institutions would actually violate the German constitution.
You're the one constantly trying to craft narratives from decontextualized facts. It blows my mind that you don't see it.
That's 100% accurate, yes. What I'm saying is, I'm doing that now because you derisively rejected the idea of putting things in numerical context, or testing the overall picture against overall data. I'm glad you're up to speed on what a waste of time it is to throw individual data points, in any number, at each other without context. Glad we're agreed on it now.
What was the international legal basis for keeping the planes?
Honestly, don't answer that. I think the point is either made or it isn't. I probably won't continue after this; like I say, I think this style of argumentation is mostly a waste of time.
If I'm being real honest, I think you just like arguing. This whole thing started again when I came in more or less agreeing with you on a topic we should be roughly on the same side of, but you clearly don't want that -- I think you just want someone to play to role of your enemy so you can be hostile at them. That's why you immediately abandoned the conversation about the atrocities in Gaza, when you got agreement about genocide against the Palestinians, and started coming back to Ukraine, so you can go on with yelling at me.
I kind of tried it out, like hey let me throw some zingers in about the Russians, but the whole thing feels stupid. I don't know man. I'm just a person making sense of the world, and I like talking with people with all kinds of different points of view. If all you're interested in is, well, this, then I'm not into it.
HOW DO YOU RETURN PLANES DURING A HOT WAR? Listen to your fucking self. The legal basis for keeping the planes is that LEASES are nothing but contracts and international contract law relies on good standing between the parties. Without a court that would be willing to actual rule on the contracts, the contracts are essentially nullified during a hot war and it will only be AFTER the war that the winning court system will decide on how to proceed with the violation of a private agreement across international borders with completely different legal regimes.
It is, but not for the reason you believe, though.
You're psychologizing me, creating a fantasy of who am I and how I think and what I want so that you can make sense of why someone would be so irate with someone like you, who clearly has faults but never really deserves to be pushed so hard, because your heart is in the right place. Fuck off.