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  • You’re advocating for imperialism.

    You mistake analysis for advocacy.

    If Mexico started making military and security agreements to host Chinese security assets on our southern border, I wouldn’t be surprised if the US took military actions to stop it. I’d fight that decision, but I’d understand why the US made it.

    I simply want the deaths to stop. It is looking like the only path to that is Russia having control over the eastern parts of Ukraine.

    Who would have guessed that sovereignty is violated by war?

    This conflict did not begin in 2022. The western conceptualization of it did, because the preceding events make their current narrative look illegitimate. US foreign policy is to instigate events like these in neighboring states of other regional powers.

    Let’s not forget the US violated Ukrainian sovereignty by interfering in a coup to overthrow Yanukovych in 2014. Was Ukraine sovereign when the US gave intelligence to Svoboda loyalists so they could hunt down the former head of state? Was Ukraine sovereign when Victoria Nuland was ruling out candidates for subsequent heads of state?

    I wish for Ukrainians to live happy, healthy, and long lives free of interference by foreign powers. I understand this to be impossible at present. They will never have an independent state or foreign policy again, regardless of who wins this war.

    You wish for Ukrainians to continue to throw themselves into the furnace to beat Russia. They will have just as little sovereignty, but far more dead Ukrainians.

    I feel so sorry for Ukrainians, especially those who wanted none of this.


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    9 days ago

    The president can only exercise policies to execute those laws.

    From: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/02/23/memorandum-on-united-states-conventional-arms-transfer-policy/

    If the United States determines at any time that a transfer is no longer in accordance with United States foreign policy objectives, national security goals, or legal obligations, the United States may cease the transfer of or future support for a transferred defense article or service.

    Biden could act unilaterally here.

    This is elementary school civics in the US.

    Yes, and he needs a declaration of war to go to war. 🙄 Just because your education ended with an elementary school reading of the constitution, doesn’t mean that’s how the country operates in practice.

    “Checks and balances” exist in name only. Sure the supreme court or congress could strike down new social programs, but war and spy powers exist independently from the legislative and judicial branches.





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    10 days ago

    This is a hallucination. Russia doesn’t want a destroyed failed state on their border. Nor do the want to govern Ukrainian language speakers. Israel wants the land and the removal/death of its inhabitants.

    Once peace terms are agreed upon, Russia will keep, rebuild, and govern in the Russian-speaking eastern regions.

    Russia doesn’t want a NATO-friendly government on its borders. Peace will occur when either Ukraine has no soldiers to fight with or agrees to not align with NATO in negotiations.


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    10 days ago

    Almost like being ruled by a government you don’t like is preferable to dying. Sending weapons only prolongs the war resulting in more deaths.

    Ukraine will run out of soldiers before running out of weapons. Since you hate cowards so much, surely you will volunteer to help fight against condemning them to tyranny, right? Right?