Just because we didn't quite fill enough buckets with arguing about the Budapest memorandum, the first time around
I'm SHOCKED! Wait no.. oh. I expected exactly this.
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Yeah to hell with the Orange Idiot. His entire rationale behind this so-called deal is that Putin knows how to manipulate him, so he thinks Putin is his friend. He's so goddamn stupid and thinks he's such a master deal maker; he wouldn't know a good deal if it was inked with his fucking bronzer.
Why the fuck is a russian asset negotiating a peace deal supposedly for Ukraine in the first place?
The EU is the only entity that has the ability to deliver any justice in this matter. The US exited the world stage the day they elected a criminal rapist and rissian puppet as our leader.
Well, actually the time they pulled out of Iraq.
There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again.
GW Bush
Why the fuck is a russian asset negotiating a peace deal supposedly for Ukraine in the first place?
Because they paid for a ton of propaganda and won the disinformation war.
I think it's time for UK, France, Poland and Germany to get into the war in Ukraine and push Russia back to their border and set up nuclear weapons in Ukraine under their control.
Europe would have gained some of the most experienced army in an alliance and cross-train like crazy. They would have some capacity to hold their own against Russia in absence of US Military.
If Russia want a nuclear war, then so be it. There's nothing to discuss there, it just means they were planning on using it from the start. Better to die on your feet than on your knees.
Buddy, that's just WWIII. And the problem, with that is, the people that are losing just might go ''well... might as well....'' and irradiate the planet to sterile.
This is insane. You have no idea what you are taking about.
Look up Nuclear Sharing Program. That idea have been around for a very long time. Try harder, Russian bot.
Says the account of seven days, huh... Three letter agencies sure do glow bright
Not only give Russia everything they want, but also give the rest to the USA. It's like the partition of Poland.
IMO, The EU should straight up ally with Ukraine with a path to membership. I think that allowing Russia to be as it is, would be a huge mistake. In a conflict with America, that would likely mean having a Russian knife to one's back. Breaking the Russia we know, developing Ukraine, and maybe even help some form of Neorussia democracy with a Marshall Plan, would all contribute to getting ready for a fight with America.
Unfortunately Putin’s puppets in the EU are gaining power.
The AfD yes, but Orbán is on his way out, and last I heard Fico wasn't doing too well either.
I agree and I hope that if this deal is pushed, some alliance of European countries will actively join on the side of Ukraine. With this horseshit deal, Europe has to take matters into their own hands. I just hope enough countries have the balls to do it. Specific countries that could join such a coalition of the willing would be UK, France (maybe), Poland, Sweden, Denmark and maybe some other ones like Czechia or Finland. Russia is already close to breaking point, so the timing would be perfect.
I don't think that that would work out. Do some light, but firm, appeasement, strike a deal that respects Russian sovereignty and security interests, with both partners (the EU and Russia) making clear that the current borders and alliance affiliations are stable and can continue to exist, that Ukraine will not house NATO or other troops, and then fortify Europe as an actual global player by strengthening the competitiveness of our industries and building a powerful military. Over the next few years, phase out the American presence in Europe, e.g., at Ramstein Air Base, and do some counter-bullying of the U.S, e.g., ICJ convictions of Americans involved in the illegal invasion of Iraq. We need to get to the point where the U.S. is afraid of attacking territories like Greenland and mainland Europe in particular, in the best case with them uncertain whether they could even win an all-out war. Reduce dependency on American goods, regulate and punish American companies, and make sure that the world's freedom grows.
Appeasement 👏 NEVER 👏 works 👏
US: “give up your weapons, we will protect you.”
US: “omg why do you keep expecting us to protect you.”
I hope when Trump, Musk, and the rest of them go it is an incredibly long, drawn out, and painful process.
The Budapest memorandum! Fun stuff. Instead of all of us arguing, I recommend for people to read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum#Content
I can really see why it is that some people have a hard-on for trying to destroy Wikipedia. A lot of the misery that's been washing over the world for the last 10 years or so is because they've developed really incredibly powerful tools for unmooring people's perceptions of reality from what the actual reality is, and Wikipedia is starting to stick out as a trusted source of truth, as the others fall and crumble one by one.
I've read it. What are they wrong about?
The "we will protect you" part. Where did you see that? There's actually a specific discussion about it (talking about "security guarantee" and "security assurance", because it was debated at the time) and what the outcome was.
To be fair, we DID protect them until Trump got into office. He's a trash gremlin. He turns everything into trash, while brainwashing the dumb people.
unfortunately I fear Trump will never see any retribution for his many, many misdeeds.
Musk, on the other hand, is young enough that we have decades for his chickens to come home to roost. We can really draw out the "find out" phase for him. I'm gonna buy a bottle of champagne for the occasion.
It would definitely be out of character for Democrats to find Republicans accountable for treason or war crimes. They've followed this same pattern since Nixon.
He's right. USA demanding payment is BS, after all Ukraine got rid of nuclear weapons with assurence of security. USA was a part of that assurence. Same goes for all European countries that backed that deal. You signed it, now stand by it no matter what.
Also, it just makes financial sense to help the Ukrainians defend their country. Hear me out.
The US hasn’t had a peer or near peer war in a long time. This gives a huge amount of data to better use the pentagons funding.
They can allocate more money to drones and anti drone systems, test out new equipment and see if it’s worth continuing to invest in and see how these systems truly stack up against their counterparts and learn from them.
That said, US military funding is fucked and we spend way too much on it. Even if we had a smaller budget, it still makes sense.
I always find it fascinating when a whole bunch of people all start saying the same wrong thing about something.
I posted below a link to Wikipedia explaining what actually happened with this. I feel like the game of me disagreeing with this person is just going to get swallowed into an expanding tide of people arguing and insisting on things. Read the article.
Or maybe just maybe you might be the one that's wrong. Just a thought.
From an article I read about this:
"We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective," [US Defense Secretary] Hegseth said, referring to the year Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. "Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering."
Why is that an "illusionary goal"? That should be the bare minimum goal. I'd say that plus some sort of restitution and Putin being jailed would be the ideal outcome, but getting their territory back should be the main non-negotiable.
Its illusionary because Trump has to pay Putin back and Ukraine was promised for meddling in our elections while Musk suppressed the vote.
I resurrected this solely because I wanted to continue a conversation with @[email protected] because I thought they were making a pretty fair argument.
It seems to me that it wasn’t so much that they “snapped out of it” as that they were trying to argue in good faith from the start, and got sidetracked because of your antics.
The alt-right playbook is good stuff for dealing with alt-right people or those who employ similar tactics, but if you resort to that right off the bat without justification, then you’re the one who’s out of line.
Yeah. Since I've been trying not to do this, I've caught myself a few of times typing something super-sarcastic, deleted it, and written just a straight explanation of what I'm trying to say, and it always works better. If the person was bad-faith, then it becomes a little more clear who's the bad party, instead of it just being a big snark fight. If they weren't (which has also happened), it saves a whole bunch of grief and hostility on all sides. I was really surprised how well it worked. Maybe that sounds stupid but it was a big revelation to me.
You should use a carrot and stick approach. If someone is sticking to the facts, you stick with the facts, if they start doing weird psychological bullshit, then you deploy countermeasures to force them back to the facts.
This is where it gets to where I have to make a conscious effort. To me, the original message I was replying to was in no way sticking to the facts. It was "factual" in the sense of, no personal attacks or anything, but it was so far removed from a good-faith argument that I just couldn't take it seriously as something someone actually believes. Like:
- Point: Ukraine is mad about the bullshit peace agreement! (Okay, sure, seems pretty reasonable.)
- Counterpoint: Let's bring Kamala Harris into it! Harris would obviously have pressured them with the same bullshit peace agreement! Trump isn't exceptionally dangerous for Ukraine and its aid! The absolutely shocking-to-the-world-at-the-time resistance and counteroffensive Ukraine has been able to do against a 20-times-larger opponent is proof that the West isn't helping, and therefore Trump is the same as Harris! The real answer is that Ukraine should have nukes!
I'm exaggerating, but only a little.
I actually do think you're right and I should have taken the snark out. But not because the original argument was something that really needed to be dealt with on the merits, although I did try to make a point to address the merits also instead of just jeering.