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So, in addition to supporting their conscription, you've decided to speak for them.

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.

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.

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. The same entity that pushed this proxy war, btw.

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.

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.

What benefit? There is nothing to be gained for me in this war.

You're just willing to demand that countries you don't live in continue to fight and die for the war you won't.

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.

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.

Put whom where exactly? Ukrainians into Ukraine? Russians into land that doesn't belong to them?