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Tell Putin.


Cheap excuse for a country of shooters.

Just say that you like to plunder.


If we're plundering you, rest assured, you'll know it.


I like to plunder. Gotta pay for the healthcare and schools somehow. Don't you care about the children?


Lmao Putin isn't Putin up much of a fight these days. if you wanna scare him air drop solar panels all over the place and show a picture of some old howitzers.


He's killed 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers so far, by the best current estimates, and he couldn't care less about that.

He's lost a similar number of his own people, and he couldn't care less about that, either.

But yeah, let's appease him, and see how that goes in the long run. Maybe it'll work this time. Maybe this time is different.


Yeah buddy, giving sick kids healthcare isnt appeasing Putin, breathe.


5th generation fighters aren't good enough against Putin?


People like Putin and Xi understand only one language: force. (Actually that old cliché is true of pretty much any head of state.)

Whatever your own beliefs, they won't fare as well in a world where the West has abandoned the upper hand in defense technology.


> West has abandoned the upper hand in defense technology.

Ah yes, superior Russian technology, as demonstrated in Ukraine.


I'd rather America does not provoke Russia and have a military presence bordering Russia and not support Ukraine joining NATO.


> I'd rather America does not provoke Russia and have a military presence bordering Russia and not support Ukraine joining NATO.

Appeasing Russia will never work, they have appeased for decades and it just leads to more conflict. The only thing Russia will respond to is being physically rebuffed, luckily this is happening in Ukraine.

Russia was never provoked into invading Ukraine, they merely used their own propaganda machine to invent excuses for the invasion.


https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-war-beg...

Ukraine offered to stay out of NATO to prevent war, guess what, it didn't prevent it.

Nothing we can do will stop Russia except defeating them.


All, in all, if you also count Ukraine, NATO and EU expansion meant adding about a hundred million people to the western world. This may or may not be worth anything to you, but I'm glad you didn't make the decision.


Appeasing Putin is what got us into this shit. And appeasing Putin will just give us more shit in the future.

This isn't about NATO too, gas was found in Crimea that could replace Russian gas.

Time to kick him out of Ukraine, the hard way.


That's playing Putin's game.




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