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Oh? Were you arguing in good faith when you refused to elaborate on how you think Russia should have reacted to your aggression, then?
That the rest of the world shouldn't resist you? Nah, I got that. I'm just trying to get you to say that overtly. Or, as an alternative, to get you to admit to having been in the wrong and doing better in the future.
And then Ukraine and NATO had years to cease the aggression against Russia.
Do you agree that what you keep doing is monstrous and that you need to be stopped, then? Do you agree with Russia's course of action or can you suggest an alternative?
Given that it isn't the discussion I was initially involved in and attempted to stay out of it because I won't claim to have simplistic solutions to complex problems, yeah, I'd say I was. There's the right thing to do, and there's the thing you can actually convince all involved parties to do. Unfortunately, telling everyone to leave each other the fuck alone and play nicely won't do anything meaningful, and I don't pretend to be a foreign policy expert capable of discerning what all parties will begrudgingly agree to. I just was able to recognize an armed invasion as an act of war when the discussion was on whether or not Russia was trying to avoid war.
The rest of this is mostly just you attempting to shove words in my mouth. Nobody should be invading anyone. Nobody should be genociding anyone. Yes, I am capable of understanding when when western countries do fucked up things. Yes, I think they should knock it off. Yes, that applies to Russia, too.
Lol. You mockingly branded the Russian response to your aggression as bad, but are unable to provide even an overview of a solution.
Rather obvious that you are trying to save fact after being exposed as just trying to justify committing atrocities.
Which was what in this situation?
I.e. you won't be convinced to stop exploiting and invading the rest of the world. The only language that you understand is violence. You will only stop committing atrocities when you are forced to. And you still try to pretend that you have any sort of ground to tell the rest of the world how resistance against you is wrong.
That's literally what you've been doing when branding the Russian response as bad.
So, you think that giving NATO and Ukraine years to cease aggression was not an attempt to avoid war?
So, do you agree that what you keep doing is monstrous, and that you should be stopped?
You criticise me for assuming what you think. You have a great opportunity to prove me wrong. Why aren't you seizing this opportunity? Are you unable to prove me wrong and are trying to save face?
Either Russia is justified in responding to your aggression the way that it did, or you can provide an alternative solution to your aggression.
So far, Russia has not been an unprovoked invader, unlike you.
Look, I'm not sure who you're upset with, but it's not me. You're spending a lot of effort to assume what I do and don't believe and support, and you're frankly doing a piss poor job of it. No aspect of what you've said since you first engaged with me has constituted a good faith argument, and I'm done engaging with it. Even if your complaints about western countries are accurate, all I said to start this was that invading a country, an act of war, is not an example of trying to avoid war, and all the rest of your assumptions about me are equal parts incorrect and insulting.
You are literally trying to justify the actions of the world's most prolific aggressor and claim that resistance to it is bad.
So yes, I am going to associate you with the world's most prolific aggressor until you stop supporting it.
You have literally come here to talk about how bad resistance to you is.
Well, that's obviously false at least on account of me pointing to the fact that you can't actually provide an alternative way to resist you, and your argument is reducible to 'resisting us is bad'.
What you did is claim that giving NATO years to cease aggression wasn't an attempt at avoiding a war.
You had every opportunity to prove me wrong by providing an alternative way to resist you. You took no opportunities to do so, even when prompted.
Saying that an armed invasion is an act of war and that acts of war are generally not good ways to avoid war is not claiming that resistance to aggression is bad. It is literally pointing out an act of aggression. According to the Budapest Memorandum, the deal for Ukraine giving up nukes was that Russia agrees to respect their sovereignty. And then Russia invaded Ukraine to annex territory. Twice now. I don't believe you're so stupid you can't grasp that, I think you're just that disingenuous.
I am not advocating that resistance to aggression is bad, and I think you know that.
So, was Russia giving NATO years to cease its aggression a bad way to avoid war or not?
Imagine not seeing international law as a joke in the year 2024.
And to defend against your aggression.
Notably, you are yet to provide any sort of alternative to resisting your aggression this way.
Riiiiight. You just completely coincidentally claim that instances of resistance to your aggression are bad. The only time you find resistance to you acceptable is when it's impotent.
The topic at hand was Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the context of attempting to avoid war. I made no direct comments about other topics, nor did I intend to imply anything beyond that. To quote the comment that sparked all of this:
Russia is responsible for their own actions. Regardless of the facts that form the basis for the decision, if their true goal is to avoid war in a region, the best solution is to not militarily invade that region. That's it. That's my full claim. You can try to argue about whether or not Russia was justified to invade, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about Russia wanting to not fight in a region they attacked after making a deal to not invade that region.
Cool. You are yet to present any sort of argument for how giving NATO years to stop aggression was a bad way to avoid war.
Yeah. So, how was giving you years to stop your aggression a bad way to avoid war? How should have Russia approached this?
And you should be held responsible for your actions. The rest of the world has every right to resist you. You have no ground to tell the world how to resist you.
Russia gave you years to stop aggression. You didn't.
So, you decided to completely ignore what the person you were responding to was talking about, and you can't even provide a supposedly-better alternative way to respond to your aggression. Good to know.
The person whom you were responding about said that Russia did try to avoid war, which is true. Russia did give you years to stop your aggression. You keep pretending as if that did not happen.
You mean after NATO enacted a coup there and after NATO reneged on its promises to not do what it did, and after NATO tried to establish a military presence there to attack Russia?