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Digital warfare reaches fuel maps as Ukrainian users create confusion across Russia
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For one, I was speaking from the perspective of people participating. Beyond that, I don't think it's a stretch to consider Russia a threat to Europe. What else would you call a hostile power with the stated desire to claim your land for themselves?
Physical and psychological aptitude, for one. I sure wouldn't trust me with a weapon. Hell, it might be a better way to stick me into the Russian army instead, given the odds of sabotage, whether by accident due to impaired motor control or by snapping under the psychological strain of combat. You're not wrong to call me a coward; would you want a coward at your side in a fight?
I don't want it to continue. I don't want war to happen at all. But I will not demand that another country roll over and submit to an imperial aggressor. Firstly, it's not my place. Secondly, it rewards the aggressor, which runs counter to my desire to end war. And thirdly, I want Russia's (or Putin's) imperial ambitions to be cut short, for the sake of everyone involved: Ukrainians, Russians, Eastern Europe that might be next on the menu, and ultimately my own country and self.
Russia can end this war. They started it. They can drop their demands and claims, return captives and abducted children, and I'm sure Ukraine will be happy to be done with this shit and start rebuilding some form or normalcy. Who knows, maybe diplomatic relations may be established and a productive peace may emerge.
I want this war to end, and I will endorse measures taken to hasten that end, but the onus for that does not lie with the victims.
Nah, I'm not. I'm a nerd. I'm eager to discuss the theoretical frameworks or war, deterrence and international diplomacy. I'm very much eager to avoid any situation where I would have to become a fighter, brave or otherwise. The world should be ruled by diplomats and thinkers, not by fighters.
(As an aside: I hate the identification of "someone who fights" with "someone whose whole identity is war". A person who fights should do so as an activity, a tempotary occupation born from necessity, then return to a peaceful, civilian life when the fighting is done. A society where a separate warrior caste splits off from the civilian caste risks some form of military tyranny down the line.)
So, in addition to supporting their conscription, you've decided to speak for them.
Russia might be, but they're also the neighbor, and will continue to be there. Unless you can start to address security concerns of both the EU and Russia, your only other choice is going to be the destruction and subjugation of one or the other. Do you intend to send others to fight (since you don't yourself) to kill hundreds of millions of Russians?
The United States. The same entity that pushed this proxy war, btw.
Trust me, it's painfully obvious that you have no problem seeing Ukrainians die in the trenches for the small benefit you think will accrue to you.
The fun part of this is going to be the blowback - because the Ukrainians are also well aware of it.
You're just willing to demand that countries you don't live in continue to fight and die for the war you won't.
In which case you should, if you had any shred of integrity, shut the fuck up about deciding to put others into the hell that is a war zone.
Otherwise, take your label of chickenhawk and wear it with the shame it deserves.
I think, they were writing about people mangling the fuel maps.
Otherwise I'm not sure what are you getting at, everyone should shut up about the war because on the front line they have better things to do and not on the front like they have no right to talk, is it?
Let's call to mind the original comments: you mentioned that the people messing with the maps had plenty of time. I replied "Makes sense to use that time to further disrupt the enemy's populace and hopefully sabotage domestic support further". That is a comment on their activities and I really don't think it's a far stretch to assume that they view Russia as an enemy.
I'm not sure how to parse this. "If you can't find a way to end hostilities, you'll be enemies forever"? You're aware that there are other options besides total annihilation?
There are plenty of reasons peace would be beneficial for all involved. It would mean an end to throwing conscripts into a meatgrinder of imperial ambition and a sovereign nation's defiance thereof. It would offer opportunities for exchange of culture, knowledge, goods. It would allow a mutual enrichment of human experience.
So yes, I hope for a solution to those security concerns. Chief of these, right now, is an ambitious megalomaniac trying to seize by force what isn't his to take. I should hope it doesn't take hundreds of millions of deaths to stop him.
The United States are also a threat to our sovereignty, true. Not violently, at the moment, but economically, technologically and through plain old political corruption. They're also an imperial power with plenty of blood on their hands. We can chat about the middle east at length if you'd like, or Venezuela, or Europe. You'll find me just as ready to condemn them as I am here to condemn Russia.
But in this context, they weren't the ones annexing Crimea, nor starting a "special operation" that escalated into open war. They didn't shell Ukrainian cities, abduct children or continue to send soldiers into the meatgrinder.
The US backed Ukraine for entirely self-serving reasons, but they didn't start this war.
This blood is on Putin's hands alone.
What benefit? There is nothing to be gained for me in this war.
No. I'm not willing to demand anything of Ukraine. Whether they want to defend their country against a war of aggression is their choice to make.
The only demand I make is that the aggressor cease their aggression.
Put whom where exactly? Ukrainians into Ukraine? Russians into land that doesn't belong to them?