We should all perform deep analysis of the conflict and behave rationally - the people of Ukraine suffer immensely now.
How can this conflict be brought to a halt ASAP so no more ordinary people suffer.
I think GP's ever so slightly overstated things. There is a reason (albeit one that is unjustifiable) and "slaughtering civilians" isn't currently the main activity (which is not to say the current civilian death toll isn't awful).
However - Putin's actions are almost completely indefensible on both moral and long-term strategic grounds.
Tension spots popped up suspiciously near those deposits in recent years, could be a coincidence of course. Developing those deposits would make Ukraine more independent from Russia.
>How is Russia trying to sell its invasion? Essentially, Nazis and NATO. Ever since Russia seized Crimea and backed separatist enclaves in the Donbas region in 2014, Putin has claimed that Ukraine is led by a Western puppet government of Nazis committing "genocide" against Russian-speaking Ukrainians. When he announced his "special military operation," Putin said the goal was the "demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine."
https://theweek.com/news/1010919/the-russo-ukrainian-propaga...
It helps the oppressor to make people think that the issue is “too complex” to form an opinion on, so that they withdraw their energy and attention.
This information war is part of a military strategy for global power.
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/149805668654801306...
You can decide which side you want to win: democracies or dictatorship. Putin takes the cynical position that democracy is a sham and consent should be manufactured. What kind of world would you like to live in?
In the world where might makes right, it’s justifiable for the head of a state to literally threaten everyone with nuclear weapons. I don’t know about you, but that’s not a precedent I’m willing to accept.
He was warning about nato expansion to the russian borders being unacceptable for mane years. Did the west understand that? No! I guess he's signaling the importance of the issue.
That’s a mischaracterization of the threat. The threat was to prevent any interference in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is sovereign country. Putin’s threat of nuclear war was not made in the context of NATO expansion nor the deployment of nuclear arms near Russia’s borders, etc. Nuclear weapons were in fact removed from Ukraine at Russia’s behest.
"Russia will use nukes once ukraine joins nato?" It doesn't make any sense.
The nukes were removed from ukraine like in 91. Usa wanted that no less than russia, it was a deal.
In a democracy, governments are accountable to their citizens. So if the war against Ukraine bothers you, you should contact your representatives within your government to do something about it.
in terms of logical fallacies, after 4 minutes of watching, there was The use of Bandwagon Fallacy and The Non Sequitur
please provide better content, this is HN.
You can come up with all sorts of counter points and what ifs to balance the conversation on something like pedophilia, but at the end of the day it is disingenuous to give the dissenting viewpoint a voice.
I really liked this video from lemonde.fr that adds a bit of historical context : https://www.lemonde.fr/international/video/2019/12/08/que-ve... (in french, but you can see the nato expansion through the years etc)
Your YouTube steamer "Coach Red Pill" (Gonzalo Lira Lopez) gained most of his popularity after an appearance on Russia Channel 1 and has been repeatedly called out for not having any talking points except what is plucked from Russian domestic media.
A charitable reading of that is "Every country has propaganda in it", which is almost a truism, but I suspect that many people (possibly including you) want to spread the perspective that:
"Nothing is true and everything is possible."
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/11/24/the-true-russia-in...