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Seems like a good deal to me if you're worried about money rather than lives: give money to Ukraine, keep Russian dictatorship at bay, before it invades other p
by twixfel 2y ago
Seems like a good deal to me if you're worried about money rather than lives: give money to Ukraine, keep Russian dictatorship at bay, before it invades other parts of Europe.
So cheer up, your taxes are not being wasted, they are saving you money in the long run by keeping Russia from invading Europe even more.
- ajsnigrutin 2y agoBut ukraine is using that money to kill their own men who don't want to fight. Why don't you go and fight instead, and risk your own life instead of forcing them to do it? Considering the sitation in ukraine, we've wasted a lot of money and a lot of ukranian men for what exactly?
- mopsi 2y ago> Considering the sitation in ukraine, we've wasted a lot of money and a lot of ukranian men for what exactly? The alternative is that Russia rolls over Ukraine, murders between few hundred thousand and few million people to enforce the occupation, and then decimates Ukrainian male population by using them as cannon fodder against Poland and other European countries. Please explain me how this is any better.
- ajsnigrutin 2y agoI mean sure... it's their choice. If they want to fight against that, sure, let them volounteer and fight. If you can't get any more people to fight without literally forcing them, then you obviously don't have enough "democractic" support for a fight anymore (at least not from the ones whose opinions should matter), and should start looking at the negotiating table.
- mopsi 2y agoThis is only going to get more people killed.
- ajsnigrutin 2y agoIf you believe that, then put your life where your mouth is, and go fight. If you want to live, let others live too. Even during the WW2, a few countries capitulated with the germans and survived, even eg. france. On the other hand, a bunch of those countries (even france), no go half a planet away to kill people over there, and there is no support to those countries to fight harder against the french. And france is far from the only country that does that in europe, not to even mention the USA.
- mopsi 2y agoI don't have to volunteer anywhere; I already face rising odds that I'll be conscripted even before this year is out. As to France and other countries occupied by Nazis, capitulation meant a ride to death camp for some, slave labor to others, starvation and oppression for all. France was used as a staging ground for the Battle of Britain and for the aborted invasion of British Isles, and served as a base of operations for submarines attacking allied convoys in the Atlantic ocean. France didn't regain freedom until massive landings on Normandy beaches and fierce fighting through the country by soldiers who were mostly conscripts and not there on their own will, so I don't understand what it was meant to prove.