• fallowseed@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    the us knew what it was doing and ukraine has learned a hard lesson about having america as an ally. i didn’t know how aggressively hivemind it was around here, its a little more like reddit than one would hope… 90 downvotes, that’s like half the community :p give or take a few bots, i’m sure.

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      12 hours ago

      I think people downvote quite more readily to show disagreement here, not in the least because downvoted comments don’t get buried.

      And, like, seriously. If you can’t even muster thoughts and prayers, if you can’t even muster being indifferent, can’t muster simply not leaving a comment at all, but have to shout your disapproval of Ukraine existing as a sovereign state from the rooftops, you’re an asshole. Unambiguously.

      In this case, probably an attention troll.

      • fallowseed@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        who wants thoughts and prayers… you want people to observe some fake decorum and misrepresent themselves? are you familiar with nato and previous declarations that russia laid out time and again was a red line not to cross with regard to expansion into ukraine?

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          12 hours ago

          Ukraine didn’t even want to join NATO. Before the invasion, that is. Also Russia doesn’t get to tell other countries which alliances it can and cannot join, what are you, an imperialist or something?

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                8 hours ago

                Ukraine’s intention to join NATO and create a hostile state bordering Russia is what triggered this.

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                  21 minutes ago

                  Did they have that intention when they disarmed their nuclear weapon in exchange for Russia promising to respect their sovereignty? What about when Russia invaded them in 2014?