• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    So you’re saying that as long as Ukraine does what Russia wants, the war will end – because Ukraine isn’t allowed to make sovereign decisions that upset Russia?

    You’re advocating for imperialism. Guess that’s okay with you as long it isn’t the West doing it, huh?

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      15 days ago

      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.