As an employee of a neutral newspaper Washington Post, I would just like to loudly say that WE ARE PROFITING FROM THIS WAR, THAT IS WHY THIS WAR IS GOOD.

  • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    I don’t know how you take an argument that basically says “a stalemate that just feeds people into the grinder and does not achieve any military objective, means that this war needs to come to an end” and claim that means I’m justifying colonialism and indigenous genocide.

    On multiple levels, pigpoop

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      On a short-timeline view (which is exactly what we have now in this conflict) that “stalemate that just feeds people into the grinder that doesn’t achieve a military objective*” is exactly what we had at multiple points during the colonial period. Wars like Father Le Loutre’s War also spilled over to non combatant citizens just like Russia’s Soldiers have targeted. For that matter, that’s been true of just about any period where one nation invaded another to claim them. The only real difference now is we have gotten exceptionally effective at killing people so the totals are far higher.

      Crack a fucking history book. Justification of aggression and invasion against a sovereign nation is a new low.

      *- keeping an invading force from progressing is an objective, just ask the North Vietnamese. But you probably think they should have surrendered too based on your logic.

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        I can’t believe everyone isn’t recognizing the sacredness of these administrative borders from a country that no longer exists. Won’t somebody think of the sovereignty? These borders were very convenient for the richest people in the west and they deserve every advantage in their efforts to rob the people of Russia.

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        Russia has stated their goal is to maintain the territory they currently hold as well as the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine which a grinding war of attrition does due to the massive armament production difference between the two not to mention the artillery difference which has again been proven to be integral in maintaining lines within a war of attrition doctrine. As proven by the ever-probing “coutner-offensive” Ukraine is unable to retake the terrain that Russia sought out to capture and by furthering the casualties and destruction of material assets the second and third goals are obtained.