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Ukraine is still in Europe no matter how you spin it. Russia has also invaded NATO aligned airspace, cut infrastructure lines in the ocean, likely blew up a critical fuel pipeline, continues aggressive cyber warfare, bombed a railway in Poland, and pays for bots and misinformation campaigns and supports right wing fascism in the US and EU. They rattle their nuclear sabre constantly and have also had illegal incursions across borders like Finland... Tell us again how Russia isn't a nascent threat to all Europeans after invading a sovereign country twice, downing passenger jets and sending proxy ships for covert unconventional warfare? The EU is under attack already and at least Poland is awake to it.
Russia is still in Europe no matter how you spin it.
Not accoridng to them. They rightfully consider themselves Euroasian, and a growing number of Europeans see them that way too.
So, it's still in Europe. What's your point, other then division? Stop with this us/them shit, stop supporting warmongering narratives. Geography is not interested in this bullshit and you shouldn't be, either.
Russia is currently attacking a sovereign state, murdering civilians and abducting children. Defense against that is hardly warmongering. Europe did not push for it to be us/them, it was Russians who made themselves the morally corrupt 'them' by killing people in Europe.
Europe is not going to defend a sovereign state. Europe is not defending itself as you understand it. Europe consistently pushes for us/them.
Geopolitics is not about morals. But I'm sure Rheinmetall is happy to hear your perspective.
Are we the baddies?
All countries are the baddies from some perspective. Russia causing millions of deaths in a war of aggression puts it way up there. Europe will do what it needs to do to defend itself. And supporting Ukraine is the most efficient way to do that right now. As well as being the morally correct thing to do. Russians can go fuck themselves as their economy slowly implodes - they deserve it.
It was an invitation to reflect your deranged yapping about what is morally correct and who deserves what. You're basing your moral perspectives off of western propaganda and are unable to see through it, because you don't even try. But morals, as I mentioned, are not part of the decision tree of imperial war efforts.
The most efficient thing to do, would be to do any and everything to stop the killing. Europe's capitalist class is not interested in that. But me telling you that probably triggers some kind of brainrot accusation of being a Russian bot from you. Breath, don't, I'm not, chill.
You sniffed the NATO stuff a bit too hard and fell off the deep end, my friend. Off to the front you go. It's the only morally correct thing for you to do.
The long term efficient thing is to support Ukraine and continue to wear down and embarrass russia. If russia is allowed to expand based on violent expansionism, it will only be encouraged to do more - and that will cost Europe more in lives and resources in the long run. Of course, they don't want to slap russia too hard, or it might have a tantrum and escalate. So the slow bleeding off of its capabilities is the goal. It really sucks for the Ukrainians, but they clearly would rather fight it, than become part of the shithole country that russia is.
Alright, this answer has a lot of questions. They are rhetorical, tho, I want you to ask yourself these kind of questions and think about their implications. I'm not going to keep discussing this, I'd rather stop wasting my time on randos on the internet, but alas, here we go.
To what end? Have Russia collapse? Then what happens? And why do you want that? Do you want that, because you think they are evil and a shithole country? Don't you think that's a dumb take? What happens with the civilians, do they have it coming?
The long term efficient thing is to not be in a constant state of war. Ask: Who benefits from a constant state of war?
Would considering NATOs expansionism be marked as Russian propaganda for you? If so, why? NATO is a military alliance lead by the world hegemon, which is a hyper-aggressive bully on the world stage, projecting its power with more then 800 bases around the globe and attacks other sovereign nations at will, as a standard mode of operation; NATO countries like the USA, the UK and Germany are complicit in the abhorrent genocide against the Palestinian people; why are these nations the ones to decide, at which point they themselves are getting too close to another sovereign state and not the state that's being cornered by them? And why are they suddenly trustworthy in regards to Ukraine/Russia? Isn't that creating dissonance in your mind?
It will cost Europe AND Russia more lives of the working class people to keep on fighting a war of attrition. What are they fighting for, do you have a coherent answer? Good versus Evil? Does Russia want to own all of Eurasia? Does Europe only want to "restore order"? Tell me, why you think they are at war, at all, what's their endgame? And why do ordinary people like you and me have to die for these goals, while the military industry thrives with exploding stocks? And why do these stocks plunge, every single time when peace talks are being held?
Escalate how, nuclear? Because either Russia is too weak to win against Ukraine or it's such a big danger, that they might invade (western) Europe soon, which is it? They might have a tantrum and escalate, but Europe still wants to keep fighting a war against them. Dunno, seems unreasonable and incoherent.
You don't think Russia would know this? Why aren't they just escalating anyway then, or change strategy? You agree, that Ukrainians are bleeding, too, right? Again, ask: Who is the beneficiary?
Who are "they"? The nationalist government? The men being kidnapped off the streets to be sent to the frontlines? Who wants to fight? The people of Luhansk and Donetsk? You don't think they'd rather be alive, no matter where some random border is and which passport they have? Polls suggest, that the Ukranians are in fact not "clearly" in a mood to fight, anymore, but quite the contrary. Maybe, it's not the Ukrainians that want to fight. Who does, tho? Who benefits from this?
That's a value judgement based on your own biases. Why isn't Ukraine a shithole country, too? Or dunno, Poland, or hell, Germany? And do you think the Russian speaking people from the Donbas region, as well as other regional minorities would rather be part of shithole Ukraine, the country that suppresses their primary language and that were at war with the Ukrainian government since the Maidan in 2014? Or should they all just be executed anyway, as they are Russian traitors to the Ukrainian nationality?
Look, this is tiresome as fuck. I'm not saying Putin a cool guy, alright? I'm not "supporting Ruzzia", but I seriously think that a lot of you folks here on lemmy.world are only repeating what NATO-aligned media is telling you to think and that's: WAR WAR WAR. RUSSIA BAD. CHINA BAD. It's 100 % NATO propaganda. You are not NATO, you are not the capitalist class. You don't have to identify with these narratives. You will not benefit from this.
You are not going to defend "your way of life". The capitalist class is defending theirs. All there is for you is misery, stop cheering for the war machine, it's dumb.
What you miss is that by supporting appeasement to russia, you are the one encouraging more war. Yes russia wants to keep expanding. Putin has said this directly.
NATO 'expansion' is when countries ask to join and then are admitted . Around russia, countries join nato for the defensive pact. If russia doesn't want countries on their borders banding together to protect themselves from Russian aggression, then they shouldn't have been so aggressive. Russia has absolutly no right to attack it's neighbors just because they want to be able to defend themselves.
Yes, it sucks for the civilians on all sides when Russia attacks. The only solution is for russia to stop attacking - which they could do any day. But they're a war mongering country, so will only stop when they run out of the ability to attack.
See now, I tried telling you, that you're whole thought process is taken over by the absolutely normal bias one gets from living a normal live in the west and is only mildly interested in politics. One can only think in the propagandized patterns learned from the ruling system.
Good guy Marx said: "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
You actively have to break through that, by critically open your mind for different perspectives. Here in this thread has been another conversation that also touches on your appeasement critique, I recommend you read the very thoughtful commentary of @Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com from this comment on downwards, it's not that much and while they're in discussion with someone else, they're explaining it better and calmer, than I'm able to. Have a good day.
Thanks for the mention, comrade. You're doing the lord's work here.
It's not a matter of explaining Marxism ffs. It's that russia is attacking Ukraine. Countries want to join nato to protect themselves from exactly what russia is doing. Russia's current actions are destabilizing and dangerous for the rest of the world. Other countries will always prioritize their own best interests; but in this case, many countries' best interests are to support Ukraine against russia so as to weaken russia and teach them not to be aggressive. Russia needs to be forced to change course.
And people say abortion is bad.
Nice argument.
Please let's hear more about the evil arms companies from someone defending the nation where 20% of all manufacturing is arms manufacturing. The Military-Industrial Commission of Russia is happy to hear your perspective.