Suggesting we do nothing to support a country that is being ruthlessly invaded doesn't make you "anti-war."
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Some do believe that it's "realistic" to just let Putin have his way here. And some said the same about entering WW2.

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Replying to @marwilliamson
And you want the Azov battalion to have their way ethnically-cleansing eastern Ukraine? nitter.vloup.ch/hughchefner1/sta…
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Oh, baloney. Putin isn't Hitler, and Russia has genuine security concerns that the US and Ukraine have refused to even consider. Invasion is wrong, but it's also the natural consequence of constantly expanding NATO east, sponsoring a coup, and blocking real diplomacy. Negotiate.
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1/This whole "he doesn't want Ukraine to join Nato that's why he launched an invasion" narrative feels very naive. His own speech betrays his expansionist wet dreams which would have been thwarted had Ukraine already joined Nato. Ask Lithuania or Estonia why they joined Nato.
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No, we think it would have been good if people with your platform said something when Obama and Biden aided in the overthrow of the Ukrainian gov in 2014, putting fascists in power and arming Nazi battalions, and preventing what is happening now.
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Wrong analogy. Correct analogy is Cuban missile crisis except this time it’s the USA that is right on Russian border via its Ukrainian puppet and the specter of nato expansion.
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Not an even close comparison. Nor does it take into account tge invitation for Ukraine into NATO. Doesn’t justify Putin, but you should really listen to people like @MarkAmesExiled @dbessner fir context.
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Arming Ukraine will not change the outcome; it will however, mean that the war profiteers will make even more money while citizens and soldiers on both sides will be slaughtered. It is also very unwise to pick a fight with a country with 7K nukes. That is as "real" as it gets.
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If not for the folly of WW1, which should've remained a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia but instead escalated to include much of the world, there wouldn't have been a WW2.
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