edge

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

There's a reason why Sweden and Finland held out for so long.

And that they're doing it with no say from the people.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if Donbass users even get registered as Ukrainian. Their internet is likely provided by Russia so the IP addresses they're given might just come up as Russian.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

When in the history of ever did a nation willingly withdraw from its enemy before even holding peace talks?

Did the US withdraw from Mexico before they started hashing out Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Did Germany withdraw from Russia before negotiating Brest-Litovsk?

Even the 'we do not negotiate with terrorists' US negotiated with the Taliban before leaving Afghanistan.

It’s a deal, and withdrawal is one of the terms. You don’t do it before the deal has been made. That gives up all leverage.

And Ukraine has already demanded they get absolutely everything, including Crimea. If you want a deal to be everything you want and nothing you don’t, you need an unconditional surrender, not peace talks. Good luck getting Ukrainian tanks into Moscow.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even if Russia were to withdraw to pre-war borders, Ukraine would keep fighting because they insist on taking Crimea which is a large majority Russians who want to be part of Russia.

Crimea has never truly been Ukrainian. It was internally transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in the 1950s, but its population was Russian then and stayed Russian the whole time since. But Ukraine insists on having it back.

And if they did somehow get it back, they would start ethnically cleansing it of Russians. I hope you understand how that’s a bad thing.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Without NATO aid, Ukraine will just plainly be taken over by Purine Russia.

No it wouldn’t. At most they would take the southern half, Novorossiya. The rest they just want a guarantee won’t align with the West.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

When I try, it throws a popup that says "You must have at least one network."

Sounds like it might allow you to disable it after you plug your own router in. If not, customer service might be able to do it. Ask them to put it in modem only mode.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've heard those evil RuZZians breath oxygen!

[–] edge@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Claiming a territory against the will of its people is exactly what imperialism is.

It is nothing less than colonisation.

You mean like when the KMT fled to Taiwan, brutalized the natives, and colonized it, imposing four decades of martial law?

[–] edge@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

The specter of Hexbear

[–] edge@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I bet you don't feel the same about separatism in Catalonia, Donbas, Kurdistan, or the Zapatistas.

Literally none of those are imperialism. Imperialism isn’t having a region want independence. Do you think Scotland not being allowed to have a vote is imperialism?