Indeed, it’s very strange that sovereign Ukraine is not the one negotiating this. They could just ignore Trump’s peace deal and keep on fighting without US support.

Surely they can manufacture their own weapons and fight their own war, and don’t need to bow down to US directives imposed from afar. Being the one holding the cards, they definitely don’t need to hear anything from Trump in order to negotiate with Russia.

Are these tariffs even being implemented or are they just “announced”? I can only imagine the chaos that customs workers must be going through.

Edit: Found an answer to my own question. It starts on may 2.

Fantastic reply, thank you very much. I’ll see if I can get them a USB Mint for a test drive. Thanks!

El bloqueo ha llegado a lemmy. Great contribution lol.

But if they blow up every house, there’ll plenty of housing to be built later on by EU companies. That’s basically the same thing, right? That’s what the citizens want, right?

Please elaborate on what’s wrong with the article. Proclaiming “biased bias” and quoting mystical nameless “mainstream scholars” ain’t scientific.

And also explain who those Russian vacationers are who managed to singlehandedly declare two independent republics and a separatist movement. Might as well give me your Fantasyland timeline of the war against the DPR and LPR, because you are quite vague in everything you say and I can’t read your mind.

I assume you didn’t read the second one, about your claim over the snipers. Go back and read again. And who started the Donbas war?

Cool, now it seems you’re up to speed and are now aware that Ukraine already existed before 2022 and that it didn’t all start because of Russia randomly. Now read these too.

fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes

snipers: https://brill.com/view/journals/rupo/8/2/article-p181_5.xml

Do your thing, reply guy!

And nothing happened before that that involved people being killed?

directly from the wikipedia page:

In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. This event took place in the relative power vacuum on the immediate aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity and was the beginning act of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War.

Come on, study a bit. Have another one. When did this whole thing start again?

I usually don’t link wikipedia because I assume it’s beneath the level of interest and knowledge of people on forums, but you clearly have some homework you need to do. So here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014–2022)

I usually don’t spring that one on them because I’m pretty sure that a lot of Ukraine enjoyers don’t actually know about the Donbas war. It’d be a while to explain, so I try to meet them in the middle a bit, but yes, that would have been the absolute best decision back in 2014.

We don’t need to know what “bad” means, right? Ukraine is bad due to some magical inherent property, not because of instituting drafts and migration bans, right? I am of the position that the war (which wasn’t necessarily unprovoked to begin) wasn’t the main cause of those things I am criticising, the government proposing those is the one at fault. I think that framing is at least a bit more complete than just “Ukraine bad.”

And never mind calling critical people Russian apologists, like one can’t hold critical views of both sides of a conflict.

Even though we don’t agree on these things, I think that’s a nice thing of you to say. Thanks!

Enjoy watching Mother Russia get decimated by secondhand weapons that were mothballed in a wearhouse.

Please don’t deny reality just because it’s uncomfortable to your genocidal desires.

Russia has been holding strong to the land for about an year now, and it seems the Ukrainian counter-offensive didn’t work as advertised. Nobody should be enjoying anything in this war, including your imagined situation of Russian obliteration, but thankfully that is only your sadistic thoughts and not reality. This war needs to end ASAP, or what we will actually see is just even more of what we’re already seeing, a lot of suffering and death of both Russians and Ukrainians (but mostly Ukrainians) for absolutely nothing.

AFAIK there was no such vote, but even if there was it would not have counted the separatist regions of Donbas. That’s the main issue with this war, it was already ongoing in some form long before Russia invaded last year, going on since around 2014. Since the invasion, the government has also declared there will be no elections and started banning or even arresting the opposition (like the communist party).

The situation of democracy in Ukraine right now is incredibly shaky at best, which is why a lot of people (like me) criticise the government a lot. I understand that it’d be hard to have a referendum on the initial marshal law, but banning all adult men from even emigrating, and sometimes sending those who try to escape anyway back to the front, is to me a serious abuse by the government. IIRC During the start of the war, they also relied a lot on volunteers for the military, but now they’ve turned a lot to drafting civilians, which doesn’t bode well for how many people actually want to fight. But it’s really hard to get proper statistical data from Ukraine due to the aforementioned marshal law.

Being in the military reserve myself against my will, I deeply believe that nobody should be forced into military service. Not only does it sound really inefficient to have uninterested personnel, but it also is a gigantic breach on a person’s rights and can mentally and physically scar them for life, not to mention the risk of death.

Usually, yeah, reading and investigation is the main basis for getting informed. Specially for something so far away. How do you get “informed”? Through sheer willpower and thought?

It’s the Sargon of Akkad tactic of screaming “I don’t care!” while inserting themselves into every single conversation. Somehow they seem to think their dumb uninformed opinions are always equally worthy of merit despite doing zero homework. If you look into the thread, you’ll notice most people didn’t even read the article.

fr fr you got me there, I’m so owned lmao

my god you’re daft.