Comment by footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.net on We love our cannon fodder, don't we folks

As an employee of a neutral newspaper Washington Post, I would just like to loudly say that WE ARE PROFITING FROM THIS WAR, THAT IS WHY THIS WAR IS GOOD.

The battle lines have not really moved very much, after 500,000 Ukrainian casualties. Was it worth it?

Sure it’s been worth it, the US has weakened Russia at a relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians).

Have they really though? Can you really “weaken” a nuclear power?

Embarrass, yes. Cause a loss of prestige? Of course, but they’re still a nuclear power and that’s never going to change.

Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the 90s they still had a seat at the table in the UN security council and had a say in their sphere of influence. They still had a sphere of influence.

🤓 Um actually none of Russias nukes work anymore because they are too Russian to maintain them

That number is the estimated combined Russian and Ukrainian wounded and casualties. Try to actually be informed instead of parroting tankie talking points comrade.

Set aside whose casualties are whose and look at the loss of life and disfigurements. Was it worth it? Neither side has made any significant military gains since the spring that justifies these casualty numbers

That argument works just as well for justification of American colonialism and the destruction of Indigenous Americans. Congratulations, that is one amazing take. I’m not even mad, That level of take is amazing. I’m impressed

I don’t know how you take an argument that basically says “a stalemate that just feeds people into the grinder and does not achieve any military objective, means that this war needs to come to an end” and claim that means I’m justifying colonialism and indigenous genocide.

On multiple levels,

On a short-timeline view (which is exactly what we have now in this conflict) that “stalemate that just feeds people into the grinder that doesn’t achieve a military objective*” is exactly what we had at multiple points during the colonial period. Wars like Father Le Loutre’s War also spilled over to non combatant citizens just like Russia’s Soldiers have targeted. For that matter, that’s been true of just about any period where one nation invaded another to claim them. The only real difference now is we have gotten exceptionally effective at killing people so the totals are far higher.

Crack a fucking history book. Justification of aggression and invasion against a sovereign nation is a new low.

*- keeping an invading force from progressing is an objective, just ask the North Vietnamese. But you probably think they should have surrendered too based on your logic.

keeping an invading force from progressing is an objective, just ask the North Vietnamese

Simply stunning

I can’t believe everyone isn’t recognizing the sacredness of these administrative borders from a country that no longer exists. Won’t somebody think of the sovereignty? These borders were very convenient for the richest people in the west and they deserve every advantage in their efforts to rob the people of Russia.

lmao liberals coming up with nonsensical equivalences that make no historical sense whatsoever is a classic example of their intuition based ignorance

You do understand Crimeans aren’t ethnic Ukrainians and the people of Donbass are Russian speakers, like you do understand that basic fuckin fact about the conflict right?

Do you even know how Donbass became part of the Ukraine, obviously you don’t but maybe you should ask yourself these questions before you run naked in front of us swinging your miseduction and ignorance like a mace

The way you type is repellent. For your sake I hope you aren’t as smug irl.

congratulations

this is one amazing take

I’m not even mad

That level of take is amazing

I’m impressed

When you can’t decide which smug redditism you want to use, so you go with all of them.

Sorry tankies, people dying in war is actually good

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