• vlad
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      121 year ago

      Here, in the US, people have difficulty accepting that America doesn’t have direct influence on all other nations.

    • Avid Amoeba
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      Yes Ukraine is free to ignore them. The western coalition funding Ukraine’s war effort is also free to stop doing so. I’m not saying this to express that I wish Ukraine to be pressured to settle, but instead to highlight that Ukraine is not a self-reliant actor in this conflict.

    • @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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      Do you know anything about Ukraine or what Zelensky campaigned on for his election campaign? Do you know what Ukranians want? Are you Ukrainian?

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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              Russia has its own military industrial complex that it inherited from USSR that currently outproduces all of NATO, and Russian economy is currently growing according to the IMF. If you can’t understand the difference between that and Ukraine then what else is there to say.

              • @tomatopathe@sh.itjust.works
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                Russian MIC innovations (from the USSR days) was largely driven by Ukrainians, but that’s neither here nor there.

                What Russia has are deep stores. They cannot produce new aircraft without importing parts from the west. Not fixed or rotary. They are ramping up production of missiles, but so is Ukraine.

                Russia cannot even produce ball bearings. They aren’t producing new APCs, BMPs or MBTs. They are importing ammo from North Korea ffs. And seeing how badly their equipment has performed, I expect to see their weapons exports collapse. Their vaunted “Armata” turned out to completely suck.

                As for the economy, it is being artificially propped up by depleting foreign reserves. They are currently over-borrowing yuan to attempt to correct. And you really have to be a complete idiot to believe any official Russian data.

                Russia is holding on for dear life in the hope that Trump wins the elections.

                It’s almost like we live on different planets.

              • ֆᎮ⊰◜◟⋎◞◝⊱ֆᎮ
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                11 year ago

                Growing in the sense that it has lost growth year over year.

                4.3% in 2021 2.4% in 2022 1.8% in 2023

                inb4 you whataboutism with some other country…

          • @sunbeam60
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            11 year ago

            So if Sweden was invaded by Russia and the rest of the west helped them, you are saying Sweden isn’t a free, self-governing nation?

      • OKRainbowKid
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        111 year ago

        Did Putin campaign on committing genocide? Is that what Russians want? I don’t think so.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      I know it’s hard for a NAFO bot to understand, but Ukraine lost its sovereignty when US overthrew the democratically elected government in a violent coup.

      • dandi8
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        51 year ago

        I believe the peace talks fell apart once they discovered evidence of all the rape and murder committed by the russians.

      • @sunbeam60
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        Yes the man who couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery told Ukraine to stop talking to Russia and they agreed! That’s exactly what happened. /s

        The sources for this are all unnamed and self-referential.