https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/28/zelensky-...
The majority of those territories were already occupied for the last 8 years, it would have been better to negotiate that at the start.
The west refused to even accept the result of a landslide referendum whose veracity was confirmed by our own polls.
It's a good thing respect for democracy isnt a cornerstone of what we stand for coz one of those three demands was just "respect a democratic vote". Imagine the optics of pensioners dying of cold in the German winter because the Americans rejected democracy.
Russia needs to be dismantled military and ideally should be denuclearised they have proven they cannot play at the table with adults.
This is a rough war for everyone, but its a war that unfortunately needs to happen, Russia must have a decisive defeat or they will continue behaving how they have been for years now which is bad for the entire world.
Now our gang is fighting a proxy war with another nuclear gang because we cant deal with the result of a democratic vote to join Russia in a place that speaks exclusively Russian.
And we're being asked to freeze to death out of sympathy.
The Russians aren't soldiers like the west expects.
Im sure your opinion would be different if it was your friends and family be executed and raped.
In Yemen we dont even really try to justify the war crimes we just ignore them and keep sending weapons in Saudi's war of aggression.
The war crimes committed by Azov since 2014 we are equally indifferent to because hey, it's Russia and those Nazis are good fighters.
This war is purely a clash of empires. NATO are happy to discard all of the principles we purport to represent AND sacrifice the wellbeing of all Europeans even if all we do is give Russia a black eye.
This war is purely Russias, it is a war of aggression designed to wipe out a cultural, a people, its genocide.
That Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine is unsurprising they already did this before during the USSR with the holodomor.
Russia is solely responsible for this war.
It's lucky that a lot of Europe is happy to sacrifice both its weapons and some of its economy to stop the authoritarian beast just like they did in WW2.
Genocide has quite a high bar. Biden's opinion is currently that what Russia is doing doesnt meet it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_the_2022_Ru... just pick anyone of them.
> Genocide has quite a high bar. Biden's opinion is currently that what Russia is doing doesnt meet it.
Genocide is certainly a high bar and the Russians are certainly doing their very best to meet it, its arguable if they are meeting it but per the definition of the UN they are easily meeting it.
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
Even without anything else Russia is already doing.
> Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
That one is notable because she had zero evidence and said she was doing it to ensure Ukraine got more weapons.
Wikipedia refers to her accusations but leaves the part out where she was fired for doing that.
Your team (Azov) committed rape all the way back in 2014, as documented by OHCHR: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/Ukraine_14th_HRM...
Why did you need evidence anyway according to you mass rape is a standard part of war no?. So we can expect the Russian armed forces to mass rape in every war yes?.
I'll wait.
This kind of aggressive know-nothing 'naivety on the warpath' is all too common at the moment. It might get us all killed.
Putin has lied since day 1. His words betrayed his motives and the facts about his actions are clear to everyone. Russia under Putin is a terrorist state. And the sooner the west fully isolates them fully the better.
> The majority of those territories were already occupied for the last 8 years
How do you have an invasion, occupation by one country of large sections of the territory of another, with shelling and other fighting between the parties, without a war?
You don't; you are confused as to what the beginning of the war is.
Their nukes don't mean that you let them do whatever they want. But it means that you have to take limited actions that keep the warfare conventional. And sometimes that means settling with them.
Heck, finding something that Putin can claim is a victory is probably important if you want the war to end. It doesn't matter if it's real, and it may not matter if he thinks it's something he won. It certainly matters that he can tell the Russian people that the cost they bore to "denazify" Ukraine worked. Otherwise, he failed and that way lies bad consequences for dictators.
It really is a good question why has the world leaders have settled with a person like that in charge of a nuclear power. I wonder if cheap energy had something to do with that.