• @justastranger@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    810 months ago

    It’s like every time there’s a war everybody forgets how fucking long they take. WW2 took six years. The Vietnam War took almost 20 years, same with the Afghanistan War. Anybody expecting anything solid within the next couple years is delusional. Ukraine is in it for the long haul.

    • TWeaK
      link
      fedilink
      English
      210 months ago

      That’s because it isn’t really about any particular military objective, it’s about creating business for the war industry.

      • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        010 months ago

        It was never supposed to turn into a real war. They wanted to assassinate Zelenskyy put some Russian plant in as president, annex some more land and call it a night. Obviously Zelenskyy survived and the rest is history.

    • Fogle
      link
      fedilink
      010 months ago

      We can hope Putin dies from being an old fuck and Russia gives up

      • @Blursty@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        -110 months ago

        The US is on its last legs though. It badly needed this win. The US falls before Putin dies.

            • @vokkez@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              110 months ago

              Lol literally every single line of that post is absolutely nonsense.

              The US is on its last legs though.

              Lol in what universe? By way metric is the most powerful nation in the world limping along?

              It badly needed this win.

              If we badly needed a win we wouldn’t be sending 30+ year-old surplus gear. Ukraine would have F-35s instead of the air force trying to pawn off A-10s because we’re retiring them and don’t want to break them down.

              The US falls before Putin dies.

              Unless he’s a Highlander there’s no fucking chance.

      • @Radicalized@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        210 months ago

        There’s a lot of angry liberals replying to your post, so I thought I’d link a great video on how/why the war in Ukraine came to be:

        https://youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8&si=gaMRzFwo5JP5RzeD

        This channel is leftist but they aren’t communists, as far as I know.

        Tldw: This war was completely avoidable. Had the US/NATO kept its promise to not expand eastward none of this would have happened. Even Biden said that 25 years ago. Americans groomed certain Ukrainians for political office, and prevented others from running. There was an opportunity to end the war last year on somewhat decent terms for Ukraine, but Boris Johnson rushed in to stop it from happening, promising massive support. But war exhaustion has caught up and Ukraine is running out of people, and western leaders are already starting to call for the end of the war — except this time it will be on russias terms and Ukraine is going to get fucked. Big western capitalists have had their fingers in this pie because there’s a lot of money to be made in the country. That’s it.

        Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that Putins invasion was a horrific, imperialist move. Any commie you see protesting the war isn’t doing it because they support Russia (Russia is a capitalist country), they’re doing it because they don’t support NATO. We are often the makers of our own enemies here in the west. Viet Cong, Taliban, ISIS, and Russia were all created or shaped by western (mainly US) policies.

        • @Raikin@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          010 months ago

          Seems like to you being a lib means not falling for badly researched, one-sided videos?

          • @Radicalized@lemmy.one
            link
            fedilink
            110 months ago

            You didn’t watch the video did you? They don’t mention anything that

            All you liberals give cons a lot of shit for being bloodthirsty war hawks but you froth at the mouth at the thought of war too. You’ll look at situations like what’s happening in Gabon and Niger, say “wow the French are fucked and they kind of deserve it for what they did to those countries”, and then develop an amazing blind spot for western imperialism in Eastern Europe.

            Obviously this war shouldn’t have happened. Obviously Putin is an asshole. Obviously what’s happening in Ukraine needs to be stopped.

            We (the west) made our own monster though.

      • OKRainbowKid
        link
        fedilink
        110 months ago

        “We shouldn’t help the rape victim and they should hope that it’s over quickly. Also, it’s actually not rape, it’s a special sexual operation and they deserved it.” - Tankies

        • @novibe@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          0
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          Funny how if you’re against another endless war you’re a tankie and support Putin…

          I’m neither a tankie nor I support Putin. But I also don’t support NATO and the Empire.

          But just as a note, most “tankies” don’t support Russia and know Putin is a conservative capitalist. I mean he is the direct result of the dismantling of the USSR by internal revisionists (tsarists and capitalists) and the CIA.

          But again, it’s the Iraq war all over again. And you libs are doing THE SAME THING. It’s hilarious.

          • @Franconian_Nomad@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            010 months ago

            „Libs“ we’re against the Iraq war. It divided the US population and the whole western world. Never listened to American Idiot?

            I’m confused. You want us to protest against one sort of imperialism, but not the other?

            • @novibe@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              -2
              edit-2
              10 months ago

              I think you’re remembering incorrectly bro… After 9/11, if you didn’t support invading any vaguely Muslim country you were a traitor. Fucking libs on TV were cheering for killing Saddam and invading Iraq, dismissing any attempts to question why would that even make sense as weak-spined traitorous behaviour.

              Also, how can you say that while you support a never ending war in Ukraine?

              Is Russia imperialist? Yes. Is this invasion a tragedy? Yes. Did it happen, and will continue to happen for a long time in good part because of the US? Fuck yes as well.

              I don’t support Russia invading or winning the war. I don’t support NATO breaking its promises and meddling in Eastern Europe propping up Nazis.

              The US Empire is directly responsible for Putin, in the first place. And it’s now directly responsible for the extreme right in Ukraine.

              What anyone who’s actually against war wants is for the US Empire to fall and NATO to be dismantled. For Putin to fall and the Russian people to have freedom again. For the Nazis in Ukraine to not have power anymore.

              If you support sending billions in weapons to Ukraine (as fucking debt, Ukraine will be in debt to the US and Europe for centuries…), if you support war games in South Korea, Taiwan, if you complained when Biden left Afghanistan… you’re literally a war hawk.

              • @Franconian_Nomad@feddit.de
                link
                fedilink
                010 months ago

                You blathering fool. I’m not your bro and never will be.

                When you see a school bully who fights a smaller kid who doesn’t want to give up his lunch money, what do you do? You are the kind of person shouting at the victim to comply to avoid any further bloodshed, right? You’re fucking filth. I think I even watched a Star Trek episode about your fucking kind, lol.

                Just for your information: NATO has nothing to do with this. Other than being a scapegoat of course. Quite the opposite, if Ukraine was part of NATO, this war would never happened. Why do you think Poland and the Chech Rebublic were so eager to join it? NATO is a defense pact. But I know, people like you don’t care. NATO is the big boogie man you need to justify your political views.

                And no, I don’t remember incorrectly. The Bush regime was republican. They faked evidence to attack Iraq. The were huge demonstations and turmoil Google the Dixie Chicks, listen to American Idiot. I’m not american. I’m german. We were one of the countries who were part of a so called “axis of evil” because we didn’t agree with the war. Shut the fuck up.

                I was always pretty left leaning. Never liked US-Imperialism since I got 16 and realised Tom Clancy Novels were pretty one-sided. But if supporting ukraine means I’m a Hawk, so be it. All I know is, I don’t want to be on your side!

          • rastilin
            link
            fedilink
            -110 months ago

            There’s a load of things I could say, but they would all be pointless, so I’m going to say this. It would be less depressing if you were actually being paid by the Russians.

            EDIT: Which, you know, is not actually out of the question.

            • @novibe@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              0
              edit-2
              10 months ago

              “Being against war means you are our enemy!” - the “pacifist”, “anti-war”, liberal.

            • @novibe@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              010 months ago

              More than you guys it seems. You’re all salivating at the idea of Russians dying and this war never ending.

                • @novibe@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  -110 months ago

                  Me too. We take Putin out, return the USSR, and then we dismantle the far-right apparatus in Ukraine as well. We close all US military bases and shut down NATO.

                  We then impose on the US strict international laws to never have a military, to interfere or invade another nation again, or it’s dismantled and given to all 3rd world countries it fucked over the past 100 years.

              • OKRainbowKid
                link
                fedilink
                -110 months ago

                Putin could stop this war and thus Russians from dying at any minute. He’d just have to give up on imperialism.

        • @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          -110 months ago

          And shelling civilians in the Donbas is presumably the equivalent of putting on a nice dress in your metaphor?

          Make extremely inappropriate and wrong rape comparison ⇒ Accuse anyone who disagrees of being a rape apologist ⇒ FUCK TANKIES!

          Extremely normal and sound logic there, definitely not just vibe-based emotional manipulation.

          • @barsoap@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            1
            edit-2
            10 months ago

            Ask Prigozhin whether that shelling actually happened. You swallowed Russian propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

            • @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              -110 months ago

              https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/UA/OHCHRThematicReportUkraineJan2014-May2016_EN.pdf

              OHCHR estimates that between mid-April 2014 and 31 May 2016, at least 9,404 people, of which up to 2,000 are civilians, have been killed as a result of the conflict. The vast majority of civilian casualties, recorded on the territories controlled by the Government of Ukraine and on those controlled by armed groups, were caused by the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas, in violation of the international humanitarian law principle of distinction.

              Na better believe Prigozhin, that guy never told a lie or said anything that was totally wrong.

              • @barsoap@lemm.ee
                link
                fedilink
                010 months ago

                What do you believe your source to say, exactly? That Ukraine shelled indiscriminately? If so, you should read it again.

                • @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  0
                  edit-2
                  10 months ago

                  Yes it says that exactly, unless you think the “armed groups” shelled themselves.

  • @Pyrate37@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    18 months ago

    Not the correct response to say to those who hold the purse strings to your war chest. Especially one particular country whose political tide can turn and drown you.

  • @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    010 months ago

    Somewhere in the Pentagon there surely must be a series of rooms isolated for this war. In them intelligence is gathered, counterparts in Ukraine can be in instant contact, resources from both armies are tracked, tactics are formulated, simulations are run. How do I know this? Because this would be too good of a learning opportunity to pass up.

    And those folks ain’t talking.

    • JoYo
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -110 months ago

      the whole world is sending people to become veterans so they can return with their experience and become trainers.

  • Jaysyn
    link
    fedilink
    -110 months ago

    Everyone point & laugh at the sad tankie in this thread.

  • WuTang
    link
    fedilink
    English
    -110 months ago

    As an european taxpayer who see Ukrainian in Jaguar and Audi Q7 driving aroung in my country, I would say to these pain in the ass to shut up! Never seen such an arrogant people, they are in a conflict, getting free supply of everything and they complain!

    • @MHcharLEE@lemdro.id
      link
      fedilink
      English
      010 months ago

      Those are the ones you see. How do you tell a Ukrainian from your own countrymen on a bus? They’re not all rich, they’re not all assholes, they are where they are because they wanted to stay alive. And so would you if you were in their shoes, you dense fuck.

      • WuTang
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -110 months ago

        if you were in their shoes, explain to why this syrian, palestinian refugees has still no access to the work market or his children have access to school after 3years in our asylum while ukrainians get everything and for free?

        you dense fuck.

        I gently fuck you.

    • @figaro@lemdro.id
      link
      fedilink
      English
      010 months ago

      Hey,

      I know you are getting downvoted and railed on pretty hard here, but please take this moment to reconsider some of your core beliefs and why you might feel the way you do.

      Are people fleeing their home country to get rich?

      • WuTang
        link
        fedilink
        English
        010 months ago

        the question is why do they get privileges over other refugees?! their country is not wiped off like lybia or syria , UA is quite intact, so they shouldn’t even fly away and if so, we should not provide them wildcard access, but follow the process.

        they are refugees which lost everything, qualified and their country sent back to stone age: waiting in line for 3 to 5 years to just get access school, work market and co. They are at the image of their president, arrogant and ungrateful.

        I’m just an european taxpayer pissed of!

        • @shottymcb@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          010 months ago

          Is that the Ukrainians fault? They’re not the ones deciding how they’re being treated. They’re not the ones deciding how other refugees are treated either.

          Why are you mad at them instead of the people making those decisions?

          • WuTang
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -110 months ago

            Is that the Ukrainians fault?

            Yes, Zelensky the humorist dick pianist is killing his people by continuing the war. I know that’s a proxy war btw, ukrainians are collateral damages but us too.

            NOTE, i don’t say UA should not defend themselve but they should have a true military or diplomatic leader, not a TV show presenter who is arrogant dick, by the way.

            Why are you mad at them instead of the people making those decisions?

            I am and I do but I also see how the so called refugees behave here and let’s be clear, those are not the most unfortunate. Again, i’m not against the idea, we have process and asylum for this. Nothing is justifying this irrational inflow. It looks like the same crazy bastards in charge of COVID.

      • @Blursty@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        010 months ago

        They got rich by being crooks in the most corrupt country in Europe. They fled the country they ruined and turned into a shithole vassal state of the USA. These are the worst Ukraine has to offer.

        • @figaro@lemdro.id
          link
          fedilink
          -110 months ago

          I’m sorry you have so much hate for people you do not understand. Genuinely, it might be better to see people as just people, and not representatives of the worst parts of the governments they happened to be born under.

    • @infinipurple@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      010 months ago

      What a hot and plainly idiotic take.

      If you’re not shilling for the Russians, you’re certainly dense as fuck.

      • WuTang
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -110 months ago

        i’m a taxpayer and I don’t give a fuck about non-europeand and moreover corrupted countries regarding refugees, they should be treated like the others, no exclusive rights or benefits, waiting in line.

        it has nothing to do with being with one or the other.

  • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    -410 months ago

    What a coincidence, “shut up” is what I tell people who can’t stop talking about Ukraine and Russia.