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That one post about how “programming.dev” users are complete dumb dumbs was pretty on point.
Friends, if your take on any real life conflict sounds exactly like an Imperial Guard Commissar from Warhammer 40K, you should reassess your take.
Ukranian forces could have pulled an Iraqi army / insrugency move and just melted into the general populace and IED’d the fuck out of Russian forces on a weekly basis for the next 20 years. Making Putin and anyone after him just bloodlet the russian forces. It is so fucking funny that they think a Hot War is, in this day and age, a better option than an insurgency.
I’m not sure that’d work. If they let Russia have total victory, Russia would dismantle their military, possibly change the governmental structure, enforce some peace demands about NATO, maybe reparations etc, and then pretty much leave them to it. I highly doubt Russia would annex more than Donetsk/Luhansk/nearby areas, who are all even more staunchly anti-Ukrainian after a decade of being shelled.
I wonder how that would have played out. The Russians still have Soviet-era records of military installations, so big hidden caches of weapons like in Iraq are out. Western support could probably still come through but probably only a matter of time before the Ukrop resistance blows up a school bus by accident and the West gets squeamish.
Unlike in Iraq where there’s radical differences in culture, language, and history, how long before the average Ukrainian gets sick of living in European Falluja and starts snitching on the people blowing shit up?
If the insurgency can’t get up to much more than random stochastic terrorism, that’s probably not going to get them independence. The Chechans got up for far more and the Russians didn’t cave then.
Ukrop resistance blows up a school bus by accident and the West gets squeamish.
Lol, the West actively supports death squads in central and south america with nary a fucking care.
Hi Hexbear Dunkers,
Thank you for calling me out on the misinformed, small-minded, and frankly awful comments I had made about the Ukrainian conflict. I am significantly out of my element talking politics, especially eastern european politics.
I appreciate everyone who responded to me, even if they were just pointing out how ridiculous or foolish I am.
I’m going to engage in some self reflection and figure out my motives for making uneducated comments on the internet.
Came here to dunk amd this is the first thing i saw. We love to see this. Thank you for your honesty and I hope your self-reflection goes well.
Most of us are reformed libs who might have said something similiar to you had we not done some reevaluating of our recieved ideologies ar some point.
If you should want info on left wing perspectives or ideologies, the fine comrades on hexbear are as eager to help as we can be ruthless toward reactionary assertions.
Thanks for the welcome. I’m actually interested in media sources I should check out, specifically around the russia-ukraine conflict. History, analysis, commentary, etc. Anything I find from Google or YouTube (also Google 🤔) is couched in the same exact narrative.
Come and join us in our latest news megathread. There are always plenty of links being posted to relevant topics that often don’t get much attention elsewhere.
I’m actually interested in media sources I should check out, specifically around the russia-ukraine conflict. History, analysis, commentary, etc. Anything I find from Google or YouTube (also Google 🤔) is couched in the same exact narrative.
Hohohoho… this is where the real fun begins. I present to you: The New Atlas
Early on one of our members was keeping an update thread going with sources, that was very helpful, but at certain point it was dropped as the conflict kept going on. Id post this question in the askchapo community and I’m sure you’ll be innundated with sources lol, we’ve got some well informed comrades on there
Wow, I’m taken aback at a person actually coming onto the internet with an open mind. Good on you stranger, you’re kinda my hero.
It’s a pretty low bar so please save your admiration for someone who deserves it. Thanks for the encouraging words though.
