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Man, the replies are shilled as hell. There’s a war of aggresion in Europe, and nobody can afford to be a bystander. We have paid bitterly for inaction against dictators in the past, and we must not let history repeat itself. No amount of fake handwringing or nuclear sabre rattling will change the fact that Ukraine is a free and sovereign nation, and that Russia has no right to have any territorial pretensions towards it. As for the paid trolls and contrarians - history will not remember you kindly.
The less we push against Russia now the more aggressive it will become in the future. Playing nice has led the world to a global crisis and Ukraine to a bloodshed filled with war crimes.
Russia’s government is evil and there’s no middle ground between good and evil that isn’t evil.
The less we push against Russia now the more aggressive it will become in the future.
There’s this certain line of argument that says that the best thing to do for peace is to let Ukraine fall, or at least force them to cede occupied territory. That thinking is so ignorant of history. When a country gets expansionist and the response is timid, it just means that they’re going to continue later.
May save some Ukrainians in the short term but they will just become front line meatshields in Russia’s next war if not worse (e.g. imprisoned under false pretences and / or enslaved).
Ukraine knows this so they’re essentially a cornered animal fighting its predator. Russia is taking a huge gamble and losing.
I can’t believe how many tankies I had to scroll past to find a sane comment.
I’m very wary of Lemmy because of this. There’s so much pro Russia / China going on here. Users who spam post propaganda that go unbanned.
It’s not necessarily bad to have your views challenged now and again. It not only forces you to defend your own assumptions. If you look closely at someone who is in an echo chamber, you can start to identify areas where you are hobbled by being in an echo chamber.
Neither of these governments deserve a voice in Western society. Neither of them allow a Western voice in their society.
Wasn’t it the West who always claimed to be more democratic and open? Now the evil governments don’t “deserve a voice in Western society”?
“Yes, please censor the media and don’t report truthfully on anything the non-Western govs do to ensure we remain free!”
lol
Yes, democratic and open to those with similar ideals. Go take your fascist ass back to your shithole.
“If you’re not open to our evil ideals then you’re not really open.” What a weak argument lmao. Are you people even trying at this point?
It’s bizarre how people instinctively seem to get foam around their mouths once you disagree with their assesment of this war and the Western simulation of liberal democracy. I’m an anarchist and antifascist. At least get your terminology in order before you recklessly give in to your lower instincts of insulting people without having any idea what you’re talking about. Appreciated.
Not buying the Western “Ukraine doesn’t have Nazis, this not a US-led proxy war, Maidan was a peaceful color-revolution” narrative doesn’t make you pro-Russian. I’m neither a friend of Putin nor the Russian or Chinese empire. I just want to see US imperialist hegemony come to an end.
Absolutely rabid here mate.
The things you do is Russia / China tactics 101. Try to cast shade into what exactly you support while very clearly being against one side. I have said plenty of bad things about my own country here and in other places. And likewise about China, Russia and many others. Criticism is thankfully a freedom we still have here. How about you, wanna tell us a few things about China and Russia motherland?
I’m from Europe and I have no allegiance to China or Russia. I’m anti-imperialist and the only political label I can associate with that of anarchism. But yeah, sure, go on making me out to be some imperialist communist tankie fascist or whatever people throw around nowadays to discredit people they don’t agree with without even knowing the political affiliations/leanings of someone.
Please explain “Russia / China tactics 101” and I’ll take the time to counter what you consider to be (I’m paraphrasing) “imperialist aligned tactics” and that I have good reasons to have arrived at my conclusions (which you don’t know about, even you read of all of my comments, because I haven’t stated them anywhere in full detail, but please, give it a try, if you don’t have anything better to do). I’m also open to being wrong and I tend to change my mind when presented with good data/evidence.
Since your posts in this thread are so utterly bereft of nuance (“Russia is evil!!11”, “Censor what contradict’s Western doctrine”, “You have a dissenting opinion so I’ll assume you’re a fascist”), I’m really not sure why I even bother responding to you, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, hoping that you might be willing to engage in a meaningful debate.
The troll farms are very happy with the fediverse movement. It’s much much easier to exploit and deceive compared to big regulated tech companies. The neckbeards behind Lemmy are also typical ‘marketplace of ideas’ naïve idiots, making it that much easier for groups to spread their misinformation unopposed.
Even so it’s a net positive. The world just needs to get better at critical thinking. Hell, I had to take a whole class on it in college. I personally think it should be a high school class.
Has there been any proof from any Fediverse admin who could confirm that troll farms are active on Lemmy/Fediverse? I’d be interested to read more about that. Thanks!
Edit: Would’ve expected that it’s too small in comparision to the big players.
It’s not surprising-- this community’s hosted on an instance run by known tankies, no wonder all the comments sections here are so toxic.
So by your logic the US should directly commit troops and provoke a declaration of war from Russia? You do realize that would bring all of NATO (nuclear powerful) into a hot war with Russia (also nuclear powerful) over a few regions they can’t seem to hold in Ukraine?
Sorry, that’s crazy.
You’re right, Ukraine is a sovereign nation. They have every right to defend themselves and I am in no way defending Russia’s invasion. That being said, other sovereign nations should not be expected to put their people’s lives on the line so Ukraine can win in their conflict with Russia.
Everyone seems so concerned with the appeasement aspect of trying to contain Hitler in WW2 they forget the lessons of WW1 bringing the world into a pointless bloody and destructive war through alliances after the assassination of an archduke.
Not to mention the situation today is vastly different than the eve of WW2. Literally the only similarity is a territorial conflict which is true of the majority of the worlds conflicts. Let’s compare
While Germany was invading the sudatenland, Chamberlain persued a policy of appeasement, trying to befriend Hitler. During Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there was almost universal opposition with countries lending indirect aid to Ukraine instead of just standing by.
Part of German expansion was the systematic stripping and denial of personhood and rights to anyone deemed undesirable creating a crisis where refugees could not leave without proper papers they could never get. Compared with today where Ukrainian refugees get to use the fast pass lane to enter the US through Mexico.
Most importantly, Germany never developed the nuke. They tried, but didn’t get there before the end of the war. There was zero nuclear consideration to worry about. Compared to Russia today which is a nuclear powerhouse on par with the US.
History will only remember if we don’t nuke ourselves out of existence because of this. Too many people alive today don’t know the fear of mutually assured destruction. Never thought that old cold war vestage actually served a useful purpose in the minds of the people.
We have paid bitterly for inaction against dictators in the past
We have paid, and are paying, for inaction against this particular dictator. Wars of expansion like this have to be met with defense from the entire global community. We tried appeasement, and they showed us that appeasement will be treated as weakness and a sign to continue expansion.
A free and sovereign nation owned by Blackrock.
I do not like the direction this is going.
Is that a quote from Putin?
And you like how this is escalating dangerously? What arms manufacturer do you own or are you working at the Pentagon?
3k sounds like a detachment of instructors. Good support.
3000 troops of Biden
The 6,000 Hands of Dr. B.
this does not sound good
It’s like an extra 4% buildup, doesn’t sound extreme.
yeah, but still, it’s the US doing this
after offering to give Ukraine fucking cluster bombs (and after decades of the US doing the same warcrime shit during every invasion they do), I have zero confidence that they’re not going to make the conflict so much worse
The US already has 80k troops there, 3k more isn’t some kind of escalation.
Wtf is this comment tree. I have a feeling some of the comments I read are made by russian bots trying to make 3k soldiers seem like a dramatic red line news when so many more notworthy things were done in the past years.
Wouldnt surprise me. Lemmy has no tools to prevent russian bots and propaganda at all. Lemmy doesnt even have Voting contest mode or multi account detection to prevent manipulation
Its also possible that normal users got confused and make drama out of it because they read russian bots
Or maybe some are by pentagon hawks looking to stoke the flames of war?
Seriously though, calling people who don’t parrot your opinion bots is toxic rhetoric. You are more than welcome to examine who is making what votes, that information is all public. But if you were to take a close look at my account (and others whom I assume you are accusing of being bots) we are all organic Lemmy accounts.
3k is 3k. It’s an increase. It’s not war starting today but it’s definitely not a step in the right direction. Calling attention to the likely scenarios of the US escalating their military presence in the region is most certainly not Russian propaganda just because it contradicts the American propaganda.
Why do you keep phrasing this as if a war didn’t already start over a year ago after Russia invaded Ukraine?
Seems you’d rather see innocent Ukranians slaughtered than offer them any aid. Why is that?
it’s not that; it’s that it’s the US doing it for a country halfway across the world, as if we’re actually going there to help instead of taking advantage of the situation because Russia’s involved
if we do go there, it’s not gonna be for aid
Because the US is not involved directly. They are not at war here nor should they be. A direct intervention by the us will directly lead to an exchange of nuclear weapons.
I’d rather see nobody die, but seeing as we’re in the situation were in I’d prefer if the whole world didn’t go up in flames just to offer Ukrainians aid.
You keep seeming to think that the US is solely responsible for Ukraine, why is that?
We’re in a post about the US sending troops to Europe which is why I’m talking about the US’s involvement. I suppose when you work at a troll farm it’s hard to keep all the separate posts straight, eh?
I suppose it’s easier to attack than to actually read and comprehend what someone says. I’m fully aware of who I’m talking to and what post were in. You’re the guy I triggered by not wanting the us to escalate the situation into WW3 by committing troops.
Typical reddit liberal moment calling someone who doesn’t agree with the US a “Russian bot”.
typical lemmy moment when you prefer to bash the US when Russian bots are on rampage?
I’m from Eastern Europe. I hate what Russia did to my country and my family in effect. Long history. I hate what they are doing to Ukraine. And this comment section feels weird, because for me more US soldiers in Europe mean more peace and stability.
I’m not disagreeing with you but assuming anyone online disagreeing with US policy is a “Russian bot” with absolutely no proof is a very typical reddit lib moment, which was my point. That can just be thrown around to shut down anything.
If you don’t like Russia and are pro-US, I don’t automatically assume you’re a US bot.
You have a completely different outlook then. I’m sorry, but we are not your protector. The US is on the other side of the world.
We are criticizing the US. Nobody is trying to say the US is worse than Russia here. We are meetelt pointing out the fact that escalating troops in Europe is a bad baby step towards all out war. If the us commits troops on the ground on the side of Ukraine, Russia will declare ware and nato article 5 will be invoked. All sides are nuclear poweres. First it might start with tactical nukes on your side of the world. Then it will escalate to ICBMs. It will end when there are no countries or borders and most of the world is dead and in ruin with Eastern Europe being ground zero. Idk why you would want to escalate the situation with US military involvement when it literally would make your part of the world a nuclear wasteland.
But hey, if not wanting to see the world get nuked makes me a Russian bot so be it. Better that than a pentagon warhawk trying to profit off this whole thing.
You should know that this lemmy community is hosted on lemmy.ml, an instance founded by tankies after they got banned from reddit and still moderated by them.
Nah it’s more like calling someone carrying water for Russia and blaming the US for a war that Russia started a year ago a Russian bot.
Nobody is blaming the US for starting this war. We are all literally saying that an escalation like committing troops would escalate quickly into nuclear war and we are criticizing the US for taking even baby steps in that direction.
Compare that with you trying to dive head first into a nuclear conflict we don’t belong in. Which weapons manufacturer or military branch do you work for?
You have stated multiple times in your comments that the US is trying to start a war. Several other people have called you out on this.
Nobody is buying your nuclear war propaganda. You’re just trying to give cover to Russian aggression in an attempt to allow them to capture control of Ukraine. What happens if they do capture Ukraine and then invade yet another country with all these new conscripts? Would you once again tell us to just sit around and watch because you’re ‘scared’ that we might upset Russia? How long do you keep that up? This parallels Germany in the early 20th century. Those wars didn’t end because people sat by and let them do what they want for fear of conflict.
It’s no surprise; the Lemmy developers are literally tankies. This instance’s name literally ends in .ml (Marxism-Leninism).
Wow that’s so wrong it’s funny.
.ml = Mali
The country of Mali allows free domain registration.
That’s why it’s used. Because it’s free.
But by all means, keep buying into the tankie conspiracy instead of actually reading into things
Or, you know, because it’s free and they’re running this service for you out of the goodness of their hearts?
.ml is the country code for Mali… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml
Has nothing to do with Marxism-leninism.
The lead Lemmy developer (who also runs this instance) published his Marxism Study Plan online. In fact, it’s on the same GitHub he uses to develop Lemmy.
The same devs also run Lemmygrad.ml, which is the more overt tankie instance of the two.
So yeah, I find it hard to believe that the .ml TLD was chosen for the devs’ affinity with the country of Mali.
Thank you for making explicit something I was wondering about. I noticed the .ml instances have a pro-authoritarian bias and couldn’t figure out what that stood for.
Why is it being done?
This is how things start. Just like with weapons assistance, first it’s a little then it’s billions on the regular. This is an increase to an already way oversized presence of a foreign continents military in a delicate situation.
It’s not a delicate situation for Ukrainians, they’re defending their freedom. Accusing the US of escalation here when Russia violently invaded it’s peaceful neighbor?
I mean the first issue here is that you think the US government actually gives a shit about humanitarian things; they’re doing this because it’ll be beneficial to them, not out of the goodness of their heart
you really need to understand that you can’t take the US at its word when it says it’s sending soldiers to another country for moral reasons
No country on the planet is any different. Just so happens the us is aligned with the global west in deciding to support Ukraine. That’s just how it is.
At the same time NATO is consolidating membership, again, for geopolitical gain, not charity.
Welcome to reality. Declaring the US a sane geopolitical operator is not the hot take you think it is.
you might be surprised by how many people don’t understand this tho
Right, and Ukraine has every right to defend their country. The US escalating the situation by involving troops brings this from a regional conflict to a global nuclear war. The US escalating this can lead to nuclear aniahialation
🤡
Nuclear war is funny to you? Sick.
This is exactly what you do if you want to give Russia a reason to attack NATO.
If they didn’t attack non-threats, then they wouldn’t have attacked Ukraine.
Have they ever waited for a reason?
Russia is getting it’s ass kicked by NATO toys delivered via slow roll. They really aren’t stupid enough to actually attack NATO.
Oh I completely agree… But you can be the biggest baddest dude on the planet… Backing a honey badger into the corner isn’t a good idea.
I doubt Russia could ever “win”. But it can sure fuck shit up on it’s way out. And if it feels that NATO is a threat, then that might be the direction the munitions go. I’d rather not see any war at all. I just simply don’t see what 3000 more soldiers will accomplish EXCEPT to act as a threat to Russia, which is just shoving them further into a corner.
it is 100% a dominance thing
fucking bunch of high schoolers these governments are
Couldn’t the same be said for the other NATO countries sending help to Ukraine?
Sending 3000 reservists to Europe?
Shit, I’m going there on vacation in a few weeks, that’s definitely provocative.
I wish they’d try something, they need to learn a lesson about screwing around in Europe.
Surprised russia sending troops “on vacation” to Crimea wasn’t a reason for nato to bomb half of Russia to shit.
Crimea was Ukrainian territory… It’s not in NATO. Thus not protected by NATO treaty.
So wait, your argument is invading another sovereign country isn’t a provocation, but sending reservists into an allied country that welcomes them is?
Man, Russian logic is complex.
I’m overjoyed then.
Yes, more senseless war! Ukraine is in the right to protect their territory. But outright wishing for senseless war is stupid as hell.
deranged comment
Hope you’re ready to die in a foreign war then
You do realize there’s like 80,000 troops already there in europe? We have bases around the world. I’m not sure how these 3,000 national guard make a difference in your mind, but okay.
This is just the start. It’s the exact same way the “weapons assistance” went. First small, then billions of dollars worth of weapons being sent on the regular. It’s to get us used to the idea of even more troops being sent over. The fact that there’s 80k US troops on a foreign continent already doesn’t make it any better. If anything, it provides the context for why Russia is acting irrationally as it is being surrounded by an adversaries military
No offense but you sound like a teenager
No offense but you sound like an idiot.
I have just as much a right not to die fighting a foreign war as a Ukrainian has to die fighting for their country.
Advocating for an increase in US military involvement in a foreign war sounds like someone hasn’t studied the great 20th century conflicts. If you’d like, I am a practicing historian and I can give you a reading list at your literacy level to give you some context for current world events.
So “I have the right to safety and the Ukranians have the right to die” sums up your position?
If you want the conflict to end then why aren’t you advocating for Russia to cease their hostility and invasion of a sovereign nation? You seem to only be concerned with people opposing this Russian aggression and the war that they started.
but I mean, we did basically that already
like relatively recently
in the middle east
In the middle east, we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Here, Russia is the invader. The two situations aren’t comparable.
Nuclear Armageddon is good actually!