• thallamabond@lemmy.world
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          Did you know that Russia invaded Ukraine? Did you know Russia invaded Georgia? Did you know Russia invaded Crimea?

          You and your questions, playing some fantasy game of Risk, but in the future…can get bent.

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            did you know that sending the goddamn US military there probably is going to make shit so much worse for civilians on both sides?

            like why do you think we’re going there for peaceful and benevolent reasons? We have literally never done that before.

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              I don’t know why you think the US would send it’s military to Ukraine for peacful reasons, and not to kill as many Russians as is necessary for the Russians to leave.

              I don’t know why you think the US sending troops to help a sovereign nation protect itself from an invader is not benevolent.

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            And that still doesn’t answer my question. You are stating facts. I’m not arguing that. What I’m simply asking is if this is worth the US getting into a hot war with Russia using nukes over? It very literally would bring WW3 and nuclear Armageddon. That is the plain and simple fact when the US commits troops to this quagmire. Are you personally prepared to die in a nuclear explosion in the name of protecting Ukraine’s sovereignty?

            But by all means, keep deflecting with irrelevant facts. It’s the sort of thing someone does when they have nothing intelligent to say

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                No I do not. And it’s why I don’t want the US provoking that exchange by engaging their own military in a war with Russia in some attempt to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty

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                  You’d be that kid that runs away while bullies beat your friend to a pulp, only here you’re also trying to talk other kids out of going to help your friend too.

                  What a strange take.

                  Imagine if nobody stepped in to fight Germany during WWII, but I suspect you’d be okay with that.

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                    I mean if the US got involved in WW2, who knows what would have happened? It might have escalated to a full blown war!

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                    Never thought not wanting to die in a nuclear exchange would be considered a strange take but here we are.

                    Sorry, I don’t want to die because some areas of Ukraine wanted to be part of Russia and Ukraine said no but Russia said yes. That’s nothing like the eve of WW2 where the Nazis were not only claiming entire countries without any interference (much unlike the ammunition support being given today) but they were also systematically denying groups of people personhood under legislation being imposed in conquered territories. The US only got involved after the Germans declared war on the US. That only happened after Americans declared war on Japan after pearl harbor.

                    I get your point, a policy of appeasement by Chamberlain didn’t work as intended, but he was also trying to buddy up with Hitler while he was invading the sudatenland. Apples and oranges buddy

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                Yes. Do you think it’s worth leaving 44 million people to be conquered by a fascist, genocidal regime because you’re scared some limp-dick dictator might follow through on his threats that have proven to be empty over and over again?

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                  Do you think its worth dying by nuclear annihilation

                  Yes.

                  Do you mean what you say or do you do it to be contrarian?

                  I can’t think of a single way in which anyone who has even heard of the concept of nuclear weapons, much less seen aftermath of real use and hopefully put some individual thought into considering the consequences of their use, could say that it’s worth it to die, taking the rest of humanity along.

                  I’m just going to block you because I do not wish to interact with (or see the postings of) someone who genuinely wants nuclear war. I’m not going to scramble my brain trying to comprehend how someone could be so delusional.

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                    Do you mean what you say or do you do it to be contrarian?

                    I fucking mean it. I’ve risked my life to stand up to abusers before. And Vladdy boy is the biggest abuser of them all. So fuck him and his rinky-dink nukes, nuclear annihilation is a preferable alternative to fascism spreading unopposed.

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        So you are personally prepared to die over a few regions in Ukraine that want to be Russian? Do your friends and family know you’d like them to die or suffer a nuclear apocalypse so some insignificant corner of the world can finally be free from Russia, Ukraine, and Modern Civilization?

        Sounds like you didn’t pay attention to 20th century history so here’s the cliff items:

        Nuclear war = very bad. No winners. Most die. Civilization collapses. Mad max ensues

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      If defending Ukraine from Russia will lead to nuclear warfare then failure to defend Ukraine will lead defending the US, which will lead to nuclear warfare. Putin has demonstrated that nothing will ever be enough for him. Remember when we tried letting him have what he wanted? That’s how we ended up here.

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        failure to defend Ukraine will lead defending the US, which will lead to nuclear warfare

        What? That makes zero sense. You do realize that when the US, a nuclear power, enters troops into the Ukrainian conflict backing Ukraine, Russia, another nuclear power, will directly declare war on the us and that war will very quickly escalate into a nuclear exchange.

        I think you’re trying to say in some deranged way that if the us does nothing Russia will somehow decide to keep going (even though it’s proven they are having difficulty in Ukraine) and pick up more countries until they get to the us and decide to nuke it?

        You seem to think this is exactly like WW2 and Hitler but only superficially. Like you heard the WW2 talking points and distilled them into perfectly fitting here. Which yes, one country invading another is a similarity. However it’s a similarity with almost literally every conflict in the world.

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          Oh yeah, the invader is a nuclear power…everyone let them invade!

          No. Screw Russia. They’re pathethic and getting a taste of their own medicine.

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            Screw Russia. They’re pathethic and getting a taste of their own medicine.

            So will you if a nuclear war is triggered. Do you really think protecting Ukraine’s sovereignty is worth burning down the world in an exchange of nuclear weapons?