• LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Doesn’t matter that they’re conscripted, they’re invaders and aggressors and they need to be stopped. We should be helping Ukraine, and you’re over here waving the surrender flag.

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        8 months ago

        We should be helping Ukraine

        By “we” I assume you mean your government. If you’re in the US your country already backed a fascist coup in 2014 and had been bombing eastern Ukrainians and ethnic Russians like in Donbas and Crimea for resisting. As you’d expect, that meant people in Donbas welcomed the Russian army as liberators in 2022.

        Not to mention blocking all negotiations with Russia because the war is profitable for the US MIC.

        I wouldn’t exactly call that “helping”

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        8 months ago

        You said its that they want to fight for their freedom so we should help them. Turns out a large portion of them are forced to fight, they dont want to. How are you okay with giving money to a country so they can fight a war with war slaves?

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          8 months ago

          Yeah, when your country is attacked by a conquering, aggressive nation, you fire up conscription. This isn’t rocket science. Ukraine is fighting for it’s survival, it needs soldiers to fight off the invaders.

          We should give money, and weapons and materiel, to help in that fight.

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        8 months ago

        Yes, We should be helping Ukraine, the East Ukraine that has been bombed by West Ukraine since 2014. Did you not see what West Ukraine troops look like? Nazi symbols everywhere.