Ukraine-Russia War Take 2

Ukraine-Russia War Take 2

Here is what the preliminary take on the Ukraine thread disappearing is:

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08 February 2024 at 05:19 PM
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He then went on to support Vivek who was even more hard on Ukraine than Trump is.


Agreed, unfortunately Russian propaganda is attempting to tie this to Ukraine and useful idiots are amplifying their message again.


It doesn't really matter if he was official working with the foreign legion he was helping them and they were accepting . well it just doesn't really matter period. as for vivek you can both be pro ukraine and vote for someone against Ukraine if you think hes the best choice for your country on overall policy's even if hes against one specific policy . He also donated and voted biden in 2020. peoples preferred candidate can change even if they are against one view. Pretty much every person ive voted for had policy's I thought were ******ed you dont get alot of choices in a two party system.

Also from what I seen he was not so much pro vivek as anti trump just asking for a vivik + that republican chick ballot. but he could have still voted for biden over them he just seems to hate trump so much that he didn't even want him on the ticket

But that seems likely he liked vivek


Did you read the tweets I just posted?
"Do less. Please."
"If you did nothing at all I'd be grateful"
"Honestly this all seems like a load of crap and fantasies. Unless someone is able to act like a professional we are pulling the plug."

They asked him to go away after realizing he is crazy. He wasn't helping them and they weren't accepting. His help was refused. This isn't some "nothing official occurred" semantics; nothing occurred. At the end he even threatens the end of Ukraine.

The point regarding Vivek is that Vivek is extremely anti-Ukraine. Anyone who is pro-Ukraine would not be hoping for Vivek to run in order to vote for him.

This dude hiding in the bushes to assassinate Trump had no significant ties to Ukraine. Anyone trying to fabricate ties is selling propaganda.


ya the one in the middle paints a different picture more recently in his views. I mean I dont care about the crazy part that was obvious. Not sure this anya person is the best source tho


by Bluegrassplayer

Did you read the tweets I just posted? "Do less. Please." "If you did nothing at all I'd be grateful""Honestly this all seems like a load of crap and fantasies. Unless someone is able to act like a professional we are pulling the plug."They asked him to go away after realizing he is crazy. He wasn't helping them and they weren't accepting. His help was refused. This isn't some

I am pro Ukraine but Vivek is so good overall I would be happy if he was running instead of Trump.

I am not even sure Vivek would be worse for Ukraine than Trump.


Long but extremely good read:


whoo boy

https://archive.is/qj52h#selection-2435....






guy who was on the executive board of gazprom and rosneft is pro-putin you say?

i cant ****ing believe it


Weird that Ukraine hired a pro Putin guy as a negotiater.


by Victor

Weird that Ukraine hired a pro Putin guy as a negotiater.

Not sure what you believe happened, but Zelensky didn't hire schroder lol
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lambasted controversial former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in a video address Wednesday night.

Zelenskyy said that “it is simply disgusting when former leaders of powerful states with European values work for Russia.”

Though he didn’t mention the former chancellor by name, Zelenskyy was reacting to comments Schröder had made in an interview published Wednesday, calling for negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.


by Victor

Weird that Ukraine hired a pro Putin guy as a negotiater.



by Luciom

Not sure what you believe happened, but Zelensky didn't hire schroder lol/

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lambasted controversial former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in a video address Wednesday night.Zelenskyy said that “it is simply disgusting when former leaders of powerful states wi

I literally posted the quote from the article.


So are we dropping the "The West didn't know enough" angle and we're back to "The West forced Zelenskyy to keep fighting" again?

FWIW in 2022 this guy had an argument on how sanctions weren't working so might as just drop them and we discussed how he's just a little bit biased.


Its obvious why they would have used a guy who got along with Putin while in office at a negotiation. but a former leader of a left leaning party of a major western country is not going to lie here its like Bill Clinton coming out and saying this. Anyway who cares if early negotiations feel apart even without US interference they were unlikely to have resolved the issues without testing the waters. But now they need to realize the meddling and make peace. both sides have some stupid sunk lose fallacy going on


by Bluegrassplayer

So are we dropping the "The West didn't know enough" angle and we're back to "The West forced Zelenskyy to keep fighting" again?

FWIW in 2022 this guy had an argument on how sanctions weren't working so might as just drop them and we discussed how he's just a little bit biased.

we arent dropping that. Gerhard Schroeder who was supposedly a negotiator at the behest of Ukraine dropped that according to the article from Welt.

this is how wikipedia describes Welt.


ofc, that doesnt really mean anything and "flagship" newspapers and former bosses lie all the time.

but...its a datapoint...

by MoViN.tArGeT

Its obvious why they would have used a guy who got along with Putin while in office at a negotiation. but a former leader of a left leaning party of a major western country is not going to lie here its like Bill Clinton coming out and saying this. Anyway who cares if early negotiations feel apart even without US interference they were unlikely to have resolved the issues withou

I mean, I think the dude def could lie lol. he probably is lying about something at all times.


I'm confused. So at the same time The West wasn't doing enough in the peace negotiations, they were also masterminding the peace negotiations behind the scenes?


by MoViN.tArGeT

Its obvious why they would have used a guy who got along with Putin while in office at a negotiation. but a former leader of a left leaning party of a major western country is not going to lie here its like Bill Clinton coming out and saying this. Anyway who cares if early negotiations feel apart even without US interference they were unlikely to have resolved the issues withou

It's an attempt to justify violence by painting Ukrainians as warmongering nazis.


This is a far smaller explosion from last week's, but the driver is far closer to it.


Here is a very good read on peace talks and Ukraine's post war problems:


From the mod thread:

by Luciom

I am more anti Russian than most people on this forum I would actually want for Putin to be assassinated by American intelligence and ofc I am as pro Ukraine as you can be

Isn't nuclear war a non zero probability if that happens?


by Tien

From the mod thread:

Isn't nuclear war a non zero probability if that happens?

If it happens in terrible ways yes. But the point we are at, a non 0 probability of some nuclear exchange can be weighted against what, 10 -15 more years of systemic pressures when it hurts the most for the west?


by Bluegrassplayer

Long but extremely good read:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024...

Great read. Thanks for posting.

The article does a good job of humanizing the struggle of "Ivan" and the other Russian soldiers & deserters. One can have empathy for the individuals fighting for Russia while being opposed to their invasion.


Glad to see that someone actually read it, I didn't think anyone would since it's so long. I agree with you 100%. I've always felt bad for the Russians forced into the war whether through the means mentioned in the article of through poverty/brainwashing. Morally the situation is extremely conflicting for me. It's easy to see why Ukrainians call all Russians orcs and claim they are all responsible, yet at the same time it's also quite clear that policies and propaganda from Putin are directly responsible for turning their soldiers into absolute monsters.


I feel like a lot of Russia are not actual forced in tho. certainly some are. its more like a form of vassalage because they get 20x pay then they would in their back water town. Like vietnam has cheap labor russia has cheap soldiers. are they deceived and tricked about what they are walking into? certainly but forced they are not

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