Badass_panda @ Badass_panda @lemmy.world

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Yeah, unironically it does in this instance.

The US negotiated with the Japanese.

The allies negotiated with the Nazis.

You know both these groups surrendered unconditionally, right?

Weirdly specific

They are, mate. You act like the West is standing behind Ukraine threatening to shoot anyone that retreats. We're sending em guns and money, if they wanted to stop fighting they could make that decision tomorrow.

Russia can, very straightforwardly, retreat to Russia. Boom, peace!

Ah yes, "Glory to Ukraine," seems like a super specific slogan that can only be associated with one movement. In no way is it a generically nationalist slogan.

what a ceasefire would provide

Like the 2014 ceasefire? All it does is give Russia the opportunity to retrench and dig in. When the Ukrainians ask for a ceasefire, then I'll support one.

Russia's monetary system is in collapse and its economy is in free fall... the war took up 45% of its budget last year, its foreign exchange reserves have long since run dry and its first defensive line is slowly crumbling.

If it ends up being a war of endurance, Russia's going to be in a far worse position in a year than they are now.

In my 20s, I always pointed out that the empirical evidence shows that, as people get older, their political positions generally just... become harder-line versions of the positions they held in their 20s.

As time has passed, that's born out. I'm still a leftie, just a franker and more ticked off one.

My teens and 20s would be pretty interesting, if you're into drama, crime and lots of psychedelic sub plots.

My 30s would be... pretty boring, things are a lot stabler.

To be fair, the Romans also had a lot of concrete that is not with us today, there's a bit of survivorship bias going on here.

Am an executive... agree with you on all fronts

Yeah probably Ukraine though, he's a legitimate military target within their operational range and currently was not on putins shit list

Fucking ballsy to just be hanging out 300 yards from the border of a country you're at war with like, "This lawn ain't gonna mow itself!"

An explodlin'

Pretty sure this was Ukraine. Hard to keep track, it's dangerous to work for Putin

That's Iran-ic

I'll show myself out

Bees?

Some people think if you hate the same people hard enough, you're on the same side -- and the Proud Boys were happy to have someone brown as their front guy for a while there. "See? It's about values!"

The reality is that plenty of them hate his guts for not being white, I remember these guys split into two factions a while back based ok whether they would accept brown people who hated other brown people hard enough or not.

In fairness to France, weren't they kicked out of Haiti like 198 years ago? That feels like asking Spain to intervene to stabilize the Venezualan economy.

Not being facetious, genuinely curious what I'm missing.