Kiev will have to make ‘painful concessions’ to achieve peace – German foreign minister

https://swentr.site/news/628815-kiev-painful-concessions-peace/

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 274d (14 replies)

Oh boy, strap in. Can't wait to hear how many keyboard commandos think Ukrainians should get shoved into the meat grinder for another year.

cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 274d (3 replies)

Well if we're not going to bother helping them win, then yeah, I guess they should surrender for now until Russia's recovered enough that they can finish the job.

Fuck Ukraine, not our problem, there's nothing we can do anyway and none of this is ever going to affect any of us. /s

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 274d (2 replies)

Well if we’re not going to bother helping them win

We've been happy to lard them up with debt and sell them overpriced military surplus. Idk if that counts as "helping them win" but we've made a handsome profit off it.

Fuck Ukraine, not our problem

Hey now. Don't look at Ukraine as a problem. Look at Ukraine as a big play for recently vacated real estate. Jared Kushner is going to make so much fucking money leasing Ukraine's land back to its residents.

Now Ukrainians? They're going to get fucked.

cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 274d (1 reply)

Fair point, but really, I don't know why they can't single-handedly win a war against a country 10x their size using only our obsolete overpriced leftovers, with strings attached telling how they're allowed and not allowed to use them. Are they even trying? /s

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 274d

I don’t know why they can’t single-handedly win a war against a country 10x their size using only our obsolete overpriced leftovers

I mean, ask Afghanistan, Vietnam, or Korea.

But also ask why these wars popped off to begin with and why they dragged on long after any foreign country had a material interest in continuing the fight.

Also maybe look into the UON and question why the Canadian Parliament was applauding an elderly SS Officer who described WW2 as the best years of his life.

Tons of profit in war mongering.

Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 273d (2 replies)

Ukraine did nothing wrong. Why should they make concession for a failed imperialist like Putin who wants to genocide them to fulfill his delusions? Fuck him, fuck Russia, and fuck anyone who supports them. Ukraine needs to be supported and provided as much as they ask for and need.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 273d (1 reply)

Ukraine did nothing wrong

~ Yaroslav Hunka

Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 273d

Imagine being so stupid that you're unironically defending an actual Nazi like Putin and blaming the victims he's trying to genocide for defending themselves against he's illegal invasion. It's like illegal for you trolls to apply any sort of critical thinking.

unphazed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 274d (6 replies)

It's their decision of course. I hate to see them lose, and I hate that my country isn't doing more. We made a damn promise, and when it came time to make good, we half-assed it. Not enough oil I guess. But I also don't want to see Russia bully their way to more territory either, as that just shows the world that they are still a threat, and leads to another round of russian fear for the world.

Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 274d

The world doesn't fear Russia, though, the world fears the west. It's the west that fears Russia, and is harvesting Ukraine for resources and racking them up with debt for hand-me-down surplus to support the far-right Banderites in Kiev ethnic cleansing the Donbass region. The Ukrainian people increasingly want peace over war, not to fight to the last Ukrainian, it's the Banderites that want to sacrifice Ukrainain people while they hide from the frontlines.

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 273d (4 replies)

Yeah, only NATO and Israel should be allowed to bully their way into territory.

unphazed@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 273d (3 replies)

How about everyone respect the land they've had for decades and stop trying to rekindle colonialism? We're talking about Russia and Ukraine and you're bringing in other entities into the discussion? Try keeping the train on the tracks. Russia already took over Georgia and Crimea in the past 20 years, just a slow progression to reacquire the good ole Soviet Union. If countries really wanna get the band back together, they'd do so with votes or formal agreements. When foreign tanks roll across borders, any claim of a peaceful integration is a fucking lie, and is in fact a bullying, aggressive act of war.

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 273d (2 replies)

you’re bringing in other entities into the discussion

No mate, that was you.

Russia already took over Georgia

Yeah? Really?

"No investigation, no write to speak" really should be enforced policy.

they’d do so with votes or formal agreements.

Donbas and Crimea tried, Ukraine forbid it.

When foreign tanks roll across borders, any claim of a peaceful integration is a fucking lie, and is in fact a bullying, aggressive act of war.

Local liberal condemns D-Day landings.

unphazed@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 273d (1 reply)

So, I keep mentioning just Russia and Ukraine, no one else, but you keep throwing in other examples. Ummm, you're saying DDay was the same as Russia invading Ukraine? Seems France wasn't operating at that time as an autonomous power. Seems they were in fact occupied at that time by another country... now if Poland had invaded Ukraine and Ukraine needed saving from them, you might have a point and Russia might be seen as a rescuing force, but that's not what happened is it? Once again, you went off track and I was fool enough to follow. Smh.

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 273d

I keep mentioning just Russia and Ukraine, no one else

Well that's just straight up false:

I hate that my country isn’t doing more. Russia already took over Georgia . That just shows the world .

Ummm, you’re saying DDay was the same as Russia invading Ukraine?

You said:

When foreign tanks roll across borders, any claim of a peaceful integration is a fucking lie, and is in fact a bullying, aggressive act of war.

Seems France wasn’t operating at that time as an autonomous power.

Unlike Donbas and Crimea....

Once again, you went off track and I was fool enough to follow. Smh.

Local liberal furious that someone actually responded to the words that they wrote.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 274d (1 reply)

Is Germany accepting reality?

hobata@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 274d

Danke Merkel!

cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 274d (10 replies)
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emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 272d

The country that loses a war is the one that is forced to make concessions. Right and wrong have nothing to do with it.

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 273d

Questions asked by a twelve year old

RiverRock@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 273d (1 reply)

Ignoring how you can consider being against nazis to be "in the wrong", Russia doesn't have to make painful concessions because they are not losing the war. That's how war works.

Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 273d

Ukraine is bravely defending against Putin and his Nazi government. Blaming the victims for defending themselves just shows that you're a product of propaganda

NimdaQA@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 273d (1 reply)
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Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 273d

Ukraine is the one fighting the Nazis, not the other way around moron

jankforlife@lemmy.ml · -10 pts · 273d (3 replies)

In the wrong to topple an illegitimate empire-propped Nazi government?

Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 273d

Imagine describing Russia word for word and then being dumb enough to call the democratic government Ukraine that. The idiocy of ML knows no bounds

thorhop@sopuli.xyz · -3 pts · 273d (1 reply)
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RiverRock@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 273d

No argument that Ukraine isn't run by nazis, just immediate childish defensiveness. That's how you know you're on the right side

You are a nazi supporter. Allow this fact to permeate your awareness

ubik@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 274d (3 replies)

Why is it that I only see this news story on Russia-affiliated sites? Strange.

ZeroHora@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 274d

German officials hint that Ukraine may face "painful concessions" ending in referendum

Before any lib confusion, pravda.com.ua is the Ukrayinska Pravda, a Ukrainian online newspaper.

Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 273d

Because this instance is run by the most brain dead tankies on the internet. They'll uncritically consume Russian propaganda and blindly believe it

jankforlife@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 273d

Empire media suppression

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 273d
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hobata@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 274d

Damn, as if Walter White's opinion from Comic-Con matters.

NimdaQA@lemmy.ml · -8 pts · 273d (3 replies)
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Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 273d

Imagine being dumb enough to unironically believe Russian propaganda

Grapho@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 273d (1 reply)

They hated him because he told them the truth

NimdaQA@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 273d
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