> Being a U.S. ally no longer guarantees that you will be protected by the U.S. as Ukraine is seeing.
How much more is the US supposed to do in Ukraine beyond the $60-70 billion in weapons and supplies? Do we need to actually go to war with Russia?
How much more is the US supposed to do in Ukraine beyond the $60-70 billion in weapons and supplies? Do we need to actually go to war with Russia?
Yes. That's what everyone signed up to [0] when Ukraine gave up its Soviet-era nukes.
I don't think we need to go to war. We need to find a way to deal with Russia with humanity instead of treating them like some boomer-era cold war bogeyman.
But part of that would be getting Russia to stop attempting to become a cold-war boogeyman, and stop behaving like a cold-war boogeyman.
Russia also signed that treaty, and is also blatantly breaking it.
No? Don’t want to trade land suddenly?
Are you even aware of what has been going on in Ukraine for the last 4 years, and in Crimea for the last 12?
Sometimes the only way to deal with the boogeyman is to accept they are the boogeyman because of their pattern of behaviour.
Russia has never asked for a land deal. They started the war and their goal has always been the total destruction of Ukraine and the enslavement of the people.
Where they’ve pulled back from occupied areas they’ve mass civilian graves and bodies with signs of torture.
- Ukrainians are the second largest ethnicity in Russia.
- The majority of people living on a currently contested territories of Ukraine used to be USSR citizens.
- Russia got the majority of Ukrainian refugees since the start of a war if we count per country.
- Pretty much all the former Ukraine citizens got Russian passports and a citizens of Russia now.
- And yes, if Ukraine is using cities as fortresses and do not evacuate civilians from there, high chances are that after weeks and months long battles those civilians end up in graves with nasty wounds on their bodies.
No. Never was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Russia
> - Russia got the majority of Ukrainian refugees since the start of a war if we count per country.
No. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312584/ukrainian-refuge...
You might be confusing abductees with refugees.
> - The majority of people living on a currently contested territories of Ukraine used to be USSR citizens.
The majority of people living on contested territories of United States in 1775 used to be British citizens. So?
> - And yes, if Ukraine is using cities as fortresses and do not evacuate civilians from there, high chances are that after weeks and months long battles those civilians end up in graves with nasty wounds on their bodies.
Absolutely vile propaganda.
However, it is not said which is the territory for the 1926 census data, it may have included a part of the present territory of Ukraine, because the borders of present Ukraine are very different from the borders of Ukraine after WWI.
Such census data about Russia and the Soviet Union are hard to interpret without precise knowledge of the corresponding territories, because the fluctuations in numbers may be unrelated to natural growth, but determined by administrative reorganizations or forced deportations.
Funny how those reasons don't matter in the least when it's time for russian losers to bomb civilians in Kyiv
"Nasty wounds" like their hands tied behind their backs and a hole in the back of their skull? That kind of thing?
That sounds like the definition of a war crime to me.
Ukrainian were second largest ethnicity in Russian Empire/Russian federation until massive massacre in 1932-1934 years, when an uknown number of Ukrainians between 7 million (confirmed by Russian Duma at 04.02.2008, adults only, childrens are not counted) and 25 millions (total number of USSR citizens died because of hunger, number from soviet archives captured by Germans in 1941) was murdered or starved to death.
We tried that in the 90s. Didn't work. Made things worse, really.
Please explain your analogy. Everyone should give up their property whenever they are threatened? For free, or whatever the aggressor chooses to give them?
> I don't think we need to go to war. We need to find a way to deal with Russia with humanity instead of treating them like some boomer-era cold war bogeyman.
What does that mean? How would you deal with them with humanity? Just give up your country when they invade?
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/P...
There is a lot of misinformation floating around the internet about this memorandum.
Furthermore, even Wikipedia states: "The Budapest Memorandum is not a treaty, and it does not confer any new legal obligations for signatory states. It was written in a way to avoid an impression of legal obligation."
Otherwise this is a nonsense objection. "You have to give me $1 million. You haven't proven otherwise in court!" What is the actual evidence for your position?
Intel probaly, but we don't know the exact arrangements there. And nothing like before.
Second, USA should not negotiate for Russia nor help them. They are doing both.
A lot less to it’s allies than it was I’d suggest.
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800 Patriot missiles were used within the first 3 days in the Iran war. This is greater than the total number of Patriot missiles received by Ukraine during the entire war with Russia.
Your orange president is displaying some funny priorities.