Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Many commentators including Mearsheimer consistently state that NATO/ Ukraine are an existential threat to Russia and Russia perceives it as such. As I illustrated previously, Rand wrote about destabilizing Russia via Ukraine.

Again your commentary is one sided, you neglect to mention Kolomoyskyi who backed Zelensky in his election or the corruption exposed within Ukraine recently.

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-zelensky-corruption-problem-1863644

You focus only on Russian corruption.

So, reverting back to the original poster, one may see that choosing an extreme lens through which to view Ukraine or Russia is not really that productive. The best help we could give would be to understand the nuances and help negotiate a ceasefire between the warring countries.

Russia knew they were never in danger of being invaded, it was just an excuse to invade Ukraine.

Is it true that most of these rare minerals are in land held by Russia? How are the US/Ukraine going to get them?

Im just going to steal a quote from Frasier here...

Engineerws, at Cornell University they have an incredible piece of scientific equipment known as the tunneling electron microscope. Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building block of our universe. Engineerws, if I were using that microscope right now... I still wouldn't be able to locate any facts or point to your post.

@engineerws "The best help we could give would be to understand the nuances and help negotiate a ceasefire between the warring countries."

What nuances? Russians are mass murderers, they have been since Russia came into existence. The only way to negotiate with them is to kill them.

In fairness, there are nuances to the way you eject a person through a window or insert barbed wire into their rectum. Those are the type of nuances Russia does.

Do you understand that NATO is a defensive pact that has never threatened the existence of the russian federation?

Why do you keep repeating lies?

Are you claiming efforts in Ukraine to tackle corruption are somehow justification for putin's terrorists attacking Ukraine?

I hope there's bodycam footage of this.

https://twitter.com/tbald101/status/1918029145788792871

Ukrainians not seeming to have any problems hitting orcs on wheels. Meals on wheels if you are a local fox or scavenger.

Viktoria Roshchyna, was starved, tortured and murdered by the Orcs:

Her body weight dropped to 30Kg in Orc captivity. Her body had stab wounds, the signs of electric shocks so strong they left burns, broken bones and signs of beatings. Apparently the removal of her brain, eyes and larynx wasn't to conceal signs of torture, it was a message, as those are the tools with which a journalist does their job.

I sincerely hope the funds I have given Ukraine have secured the deaths of multiple of these sub humans.

NATO is not a threat to Russia - no one wants to invade nuclear armed Russia.

NATO is a threat to Putin's plans to invade other NATO countries. As evidenced by Russia invading Ukraine before it could join NATO.

Like Hitler, Putin re-uses the encirclement narrative in order to portray that Russia is somehow being "surrounded". Countries like Finland are joining NATO in order to protect themselves against future Russian aggression - Finland obviously has no plans to invade Russian territory.

Note the "concerned" act about Ukrainian corruption in order to apply some fake balance. Always seeking to minimize Putin's actions whilst attempting to highlight something, anything negative about Ukraine - which is the standard M.O. of Kremlin propaganda.

"Mearshiemer? Wowe we really hitting all the vatnik bingo numbers today"

Same thought exactly when I read the vatnik's post. The other poster who pointed out this garbage comes up when something bad is currently happening to RuZZia is spot on. The story about that poor journalist, the loss of their air defence system, the mineral 'deal' giving the US the opportunity to punt on the peace deal and sell more weapons, just a bad day in Mordor.

From "I can solve this in 24 hours" to basically walking away. Of course they'll blame it all on Biden and Zelensky

"tHeRe ArE sTrEeTs NaMeD aFtEr BaNdErA iN uKrAiNe"

It's not justification. Not sure if you ever studied history but when I did we looked at the causes that led to the rise of Hitler etc.

The disgraced Schwab has a good article

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26376610

The causes don't justify the outcome but enable us to understand better the situation and how people can be driven to despair and plumb the depth of depravity. The person who doesn't steal despite being hungry or penniless is an exemplar of mortality when put to the test.

Do you understand that NATO is a defensive pact that has never threatened the existence of the russian federation?

I don't think anyone believes that. NATO leader USA (current paying 70 cent in every dollar to murder children in Gaza) via USAID etc has quite a history. Only recently they were discussing the most effective means to unbalance Russia.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html

Lots of Americans hate Russia, just listen to Lindsay Graham.

No, I'm not justifying the war.