Post ArXaz4gBVTAtuCQlEm by happyborg@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #ArW1iKM4lzsfCndeme by villebooks@mastodon.social
       2025-02-26T15:46:56Z
       
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       "How to explain this EU panic?" -- Glenn Diesen#geopolitics #talk 📲 Video credit: Prof Glenn Diesen / Prof Jeffrey Sachs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPYbXKDxsZ8
       
 (DIR) Post #ArW1iLjrd2VFUrmAV6 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-02-26T16:13:21Z
       
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       @villebooks Are these idiots serious? Let’s just bloody ignore what Russia did, shall we? And I guess we’ll just do so for the next country they invade. Why? Because Trump says so. Who are these muppets?
       
 (DIR) Post #ArW382Uxt09hJ7cXce by villebooks@mastodon.social
       2025-02-26T16:29:19Z
       
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       @aral It's not possible to ignore crimes against humanity #warcrimes of a war party, provided that every member state of international agreements respects the laws As you can see, there are nations breaching rules, so to achieve progress in peace talks, it takes serious efforts of negotiation. If you think, talking means surrender, like the EU expresses it, then you have to continue war - which means against Russia, to lose. If you get rogue like US aginst UN, then you can't call for justice.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArW3MbD7cjQh1HDXg8 by lerxst@az.social
       2025-02-26T16:31:41Z
       
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       @aral @villebooks America bad, therefore anything America likes is bad, no matter how much worse the alternatives are. Tankies gonna Tank, whether they’re communists or neoconservatives. And since the end of the Cold War, there has been a pipeline from the former to the latter.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArW3yfuIbwEoabZLd2 by villebooks@mastodon.social
       2025-02-26T16:38:49Z
       
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       @aral They are no idiots, btw. They have just an opinion, Aral. We should respect that, to not end on the lowest level of communication, as it became the norm between politicians. We can only achieve justice for the victims of both sides in the Ukraine-Russia war, if we accept, that there are Russian civilians fighting for real change, and they need the same protection. Long-range missiles are no solution, particularly not, if you live next to Russian borders, and not overseas.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArW47TNuXQkoMGcBwu by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-02-26T16:40:22Z
       
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       @villebooks Trump is literally proposing strip mining Ukraine while giving Russia everything they want. And he wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. And that’s called peace? Sorry, not in my book. That’s capitulation. That’s surrender. Peace isn’t the absence of war; it is the presence of justice. That son of a bitch and his chum Putin can get fucked.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArW4Rvwq3A7GjmhzQu by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-02-26T16:44:10Z
       
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       @villebooks What does this have to do with Russian civilians? No one’s invaded Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine. Siding with Russia in this is no different than siding with Israel in its bloody genocide. I stand by my initial assessment because I’m being generous. If they’re not idiots then they’re something far worse.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArW6076bAo298q8U1A by villebooks@mastodon.social
       2025-02-26T17:01:13Z
       
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       @aral Yeah, I do understand your anger, that's not the point. But there are many more voices and decisionmakers in between. Neither a Putin nor a Trump decide what comes next. It's the media telling us we have to believe the one or the other they promote. Backstage is different. I get emotional when it comes to war criminals, too. But I do trust in humanitarian laws to hold criminals to account at last. No matter what's their name or title.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArW6t41mJlYdWV5F0y by villebooks@mastodon.social
       2025-02-26T17:11:24Z
       
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       @aral That's not correct, many civilians died in Kursk 2023-24. It's your personal right to side with everyone, but it's not abour siding, if you want to protect the people in a war. That's the difference. Like nuking Israel will not help to save Palestine. Or vice versa. You have civil defence units in ISR who fight for the rights in the West Bank. It's not that easy to pick a side. Only, if you want to sustain front lines.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArXLc3w4FBlqxImQBk by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2025-02-27T07:31:12Z
       
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       @villebooks If it’s not easy to pick a side when one side is committing genocide, you’ve already picked a side, it’s the side of the oppressor.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArXPETFyqfYoM26HKq by flexf@mastodon.social
       2025-02-27T08:11:40Z
       
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       @aral @villebooks we constantly get told that trump is strong, he doesn't back down and he gets what he wants. Actually, he's a coward. He aligns himself with what the powerful want, and then he claims that's what HE wants. Telling fat lies in the process. The man's a coward
       
 (DIR) Post #ArXQ4EhaCxN6Guh8Nc by jorny@mastodon.social
       2025-02-27T08:21:09Z
       
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       @aral @villebooks Diesen is appears on Sputnik and russia today and is a member of the valdai club. He is a mouthpiece for Putin. An asshole and apologist.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArXYARKBLxMRSdroHI by villebooks@mastodon.social
       2025-02-27T09:51:54Z
       
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       @aral No, I'm with the people of Ukraine, and not the BS plans of another Ukraine fraud who sends out troups from overseas to stay in power. The oppressors don't want peace. Quod erat demonstrandum. Life is more complex than the question to whom to deliver weapons. My ancestors are from Eastern Europe, so I know what I'm talking about, and I'm no TV clown in an army shirt marching for war. Makes me weak, in th eyes of the dogmatic troll crowd, but I can live w/that. I don't kill childen.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArXaz4gBVTAtuCQlEm by happyborg@fosstodon.org
       2025-02-27T10:23:25Z
       
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       @aral Well Trump is besties with the de facto President of the US. 🤷‍♂️ @villebooks
       
 (DIR) Post #ArXqnCadrs1WEPCOJM by latsss@mastodon.social
       2025-02-27T08:42:36Z
       
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       @villebooksIt is an attempt to close the eyes on all the ethnic cleansing on the occupied territories russia has been doing last 11 years. And especially since 2022.They haven't lowered their demands for Ukraine to fully capitulate on a bit, even after they got kicked from the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions. What makes you think that russia can be pacified to stop doing what they're doing?@aral
       
 (DIR) Post #ArXrq2QMDkPVWdIwOe by voxofgod@jorts.horse
       2025-02-27T13:32:12Z
       
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       @aral @villebooks Jeffrey Sacks is a self-described brain genius and a corporate whore
       
 (DIR) Post #ArXtLbVDww9jFbCErY by audunmb@todon.nl
       2025-02-27T13:49:09Z
       
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       @aral @villebooks Sachs seems to have gone down a rabbit hole (like many other sort-of-leftist people), Diesen is just a pro-Russia/pro-Putin shill.