It’s what they want, not what I want. Ukraine knows Russia can’t last much longer or Putin wouldn’t be talking. All we have to do is send Ukraine supplies that are already produced by American companies and would need to be replaced by American workers. Supplies that would eventually be destroyed, mothballed or sold, anyway.
The fear that Trump is siding with an autocrat and not with the people of Ukraine and will try and force them into a surrender with a lack of security guarantees. The US already voted against Ukraine in the UN and sided with Russia, Iran, and North Korea. That is the company the US now keeps.
Of course Russia would have "invaded" long before Ukraine actually tried to join NATO.
Russians do live on the territory of "Ukraine". And no, they have no right to kill Russians or make realistic preparations for such killing.
If they want to be neutral - they might be neutral. But anyway, they shouldn't join NATO or discriminate Russians.
You are obviously wrong.
Russian Army is more or less volonteer Army. Anyway, borders are open - if you don't want to fight - you always can leave Russian Federation. At least, Russian Army is financed by the Russian Federation, not by China or India.
Do you expect Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia because they want it? Now that is dumb.
Your support for an autocratic oligarch who believes Russia has some right to foreign lands and people is, honestly, is not a good look for you.
Trump is the president of the United States, not of Ukraine. He cares about safety of American citizens. He suppose to think about their safety.
Voting is cheap.
Would they have done any better than they are doing today?
Ethnic Russians are not trespassers, that would describe Russian soldiers in the Russian army.
I agree they should not discriminate against Russians but they have been recognized as a sovereign nation and their foreign policy is only their concern.
"Obviously"? What is that based on?
Except for the conscription? Legislation, which came into effect on 1 January 2024, required men to carry out at least a year of military service, or equivalent training during higher education, between the ages of 18–30, rather than 18–27.
The law also bans men from leaving Russia from the day they are summoned to a conscription office.
It’s the Ukrainians choice to fight, just as it was Putin’s choice to invade.
It depends. I doubt it. Economically, it definitely would be worse. But who can really be sure? Many smart guys belive that we should have started that operation back in 2014 or even in 2007.
But they started to discriminate and kill ethnic Russians.
Really? What about sovereignity of Cuba back in 1962? Shouldn't you have respected their sovereign right to make alliance with Soviet Union and deploy Soviet missiles? If you had done this in 1962, then in 1963 you would have ceased to exist.
On the observed facts.
The law doesn't ban people from leaving Russia before they are summoned and, what is even more important, it doesn't ban people from signing contract with a regiment of your choice volonteerly, before being forcingly mobilised (even after beening summoned to a conscription office). Some of my friends did it that way.
Or, vice versa, it's the Russians choice to fight just as it was Zelenskiy's choice to provoke.
Provoke? That’s Ruzzian propaganda.
But it's much dumber to believe that Russia will surrender territories or Russian people to Ukraine, just because NATO want it, isn't it?
And you support an autocratic oligarch who pretends that he believes Ukraine has some right on Russian lands and Russian people.
What exactly is Russian propaganda? Odessa massacre? Shelling of Donbass? Visit of US strategic bombers in Ukrainian airspace? Discrimination of Russian language? Cooperation with NATO? What exactly?
The discrimination, if true, wouldn't surprise me since Ukrainians lived under Russians in the recent past and things didn't go well. As for killing ethnic Russians, are you claiming genocide or were these Russian separatists armed and encouraged by the Russian government?
There is no nation with clean hands. Certainly the US was concerned about the USSR and "Мы вас похороним!" didn't help.
South America is now mostly democratic, the autocrats are gone. Do you miss them?
You may trust the 'observations' of Russian media, most everyone else does not. Too many windows.
An old American football saying is, "the best defense is a good offense". I guess that is why Russian troops are defending Russia from inside of Ukraine.
So you can volunteer or enlist? Some choice.
Russia did surrender territories and Russian people to Ukraine. Read the treaties they signed.
If you refer to Trump, you're right about the "autocratic oligarch" part but he but wrong about the other part. He believes Russia has a right to Ukrainian lands and people. He voted in the UN with Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Bad company and none that are friends of America, the West, or democracy.
Actually, Ukrainians are Russians.
Both.
It's not about "clean hands". It's more "common sense". Soviet missiles in Cuba or US missiles in Romania are possible deadly threat. If you are not going to eliminate this threat one way or another - it will eliminate you.
Actually, it seems to me, that it was (and still is) the only practical way to make business with the Americans. When you give them a finger of friendship (as it did Gorbachev) they take it as a sign of weakness and do really stupid things (like NATO expansion).
I don't believe in autocrats at all. Every person has as much power, as you allow him.
Before 1999, yes, it was their sovereign right until univocal decision of all UN SC members. After 1999 there is only one law "Might is right".
Its not just about media. Actually, I don't watch TV or read official propaganda. But my dad was born in Kherson, my mom was born in Mariupol, I have a lot of friends and relatives there.
Actually, that was said by Alexander the Great long before American football was invented. (If you can imagine that there were times without American football and MacDonald's)
Or you can leave Russia before they summon you. Or you can came to work on a military factory or something.
Invasion and killings.
Are they? That is news to me. Both are Slavs but they have different languages and were, at times, independent of each other. What does it mean to "Russian"?
Which came first?
So the Tsar was not an autocrat. Did the serfs allow him to be their Tsar?
If the Serbs had the right to discriminate and kill ethnic Albanians, why doesn't Ukraine have that same right regarding Russians in their country?
Invasion and killing its not "Russian propaganda". Ukrainian forces actually invaded DPR and LPR and they kill a lot of Russian people both in Donbass and in other temporarily controlled by Kievan regime territories.
