• Kidplayer_666@lemm.eeOP
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    Liberal? They’re as extreme as conservatives who call communism everything they don’t like (cause they call everything they don’t like “fascist”)

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I believe the comrade is making a joke about our politics. Not everything we don’t like is fascism, some of it is liberalism. But of course, we all know what bleeds when a liberal gets scratched.

        • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          What exactly are you seeing as pro-russia?

          As communists we’re staunchly anti-NATO and against the US imperialist order. There’s a degree of critical support for the Russian Federations struggle against NATO, but thats not really pro-russia, or at least how we would define being pro-russia.

          Similarly we have critical support for Iran in its struggle against the US led imperial order, and we support when they do things like engaging in trade with AES like Venezuela. Thats not the same as direct support for the theocracy there or all their domestic policies for example

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            Im no fan of US imperialism, but you all conveniently leave out the alternative to NATO aid in Ukraine right now.

            Without NATO aid, Ukraine will just plainly be taken over by Purine Russia.

            If you think that end result is OK, then I don’t know what to tell you.

            As far as Im concerned, Putins expansion is really helping NATOs by giving them a justification to exist.

            • ComradeCmdrPiggy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              What if I told you that in March 2022 the Ukrainians and Russians came this close to closing a deal that would end the war… that is, before the Ukrainians decided to accept effectively unlimited NATO aid in exchange for scrapping said deal?

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              How does communism inform your perspective?

              NATO aid and their not allowing Ukraine to negotiate peace is what is prolonging this war. We aren’t arguing for all of Ukraine to become Russian territory, which hasn’t been the position of the Russian Federation either.

              We would like a negotiated peace that alllows the Donbas republics to leave Ukraine and join the Russian Federation as they’ve voted to do, and a promise for Ukraine to not become part of NATO. That senario is not the alternative you’re talking about, or what you’re implying we support.

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                We act as if the land wasnt invaded. The quickest way to achieve peace is for Putin yo withdraw. If the Ukrainians push into Russia after a withdraw, then we are having a different conversation.

                You cant claim to believe in peace while in another territory.

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                  I don’t even know what this means because it has no grounding in reality.

                  They can’t negotiate peace because they are in a war? How is it possible to resolve this conflict in any realistic way if thats the criteria?

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                    Ideally by standing down. Again, they arent in their own nation.

                    Lets change perspectives here. Lets go back in time to the British colonialist and the native Americans. Are the natives supposed to just do nothing?

                    The victims ought not be expected to let the perpetrators continue to harm them

                • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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                  The quickest way to achieve peace is for Putin yo withdraw.

                  And then get couped and have the war continue under the leadership of a right wing hardliner

                  Please look up critiques of great man theory as it seems relevant to your line of thinking on this matter.

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                    So what you are saying is Putin messed up and is in too deep now, no? Seems like the easiest solution would have been to not invade UkrIne