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Finland sacrificing its neutrality to try and join NATO was a phenomenally idiotic move.

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[–] v162@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol but the solution isn't to accept everything what the Russia is doing sometimes you have to play the psycho game

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah yeah, let's just have a nuclear holocaust to show Russia off.

[–] v162@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And what is your solution doing nothing ?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The solution is to find a diplomatic solution that works for both sides. Anybody who can't get that through their skull is actively driving us towards extinction.

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The diplomacy amounted to Russia wanting to reclaim the soviet sphere of influence or Ukraine gets it. You know full well there wasn't any actual diplomatic solution for Putin.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, Russia has a sphere of influence just like US has and every other major power. I know full well that if Ukraine stayed neutral then Russia would not have invaded it. Every single person who knows anything on the subject agrees regarding this. Finland throwing away its neutrality was the height of idiocy.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ukraine has been neutral since the Budapest memorandum. Finland joined a nuclear military alliance in response to its neighbor invading a neutral country.

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[–] query@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Should be the easiest compromise in the world, that Ukraine is left alone and Russia is left alone. But Russia refuses.

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[–] v162@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But Putin isn't interested to find a diplomatic solution, he have his own plans. He will maybe interested in a diplomatic solution if he got more under pressure .But from the past he learned he can do what he want no buddy try stop him. So someone have show his limits like a little child have to learn it. How you can make politic with a guy you can't trust ? You need some security. Everybody want to find diplomatic solution but you say now to the Ukraines hey common what is wrong with you just find a diplomatic solution with super power there not interested in diplomatic solution and there just reaped and killed you wife and children. Now is time to show unity and strength and i hope Russia is than interested in a diplomatic solution. My way was i tried to inform people on Russia Social Networks that the west are not Nazi peoples. But was also very scary to see if you now playing video games like Insurgency what also a lot of Russia people, there using now west people as a insult.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

This is a false statement. Putin has tried to find a diplomatic solution for over 8 years. The west refused to do diplomacy during this whole time. NATO has expanded for the past 30 years despite promises not to move east. NATO has continuously destroyed countries and continued to surround Russia. Countless western experts warned that this will ultimately lead to a conflict. Politics isn't about trust. It's about understanding your interests and the interests of others. It's about recognizing red lines, and creating conditions where conflict can be avoided.

Russia never threatened Ukraine until the west ran a coup there, and put in a regime there with ambitions to absorb it into NATO. Finland and Sweden have never been threatened by Russia, until they expressed ambitions to join NATO. It's as if NATO expansion has been the key destabilizing factor here all along as everyone who has a modicum of understanding of the subject has been saying.

The escalation created the current crisis and now you're claiming that the solution is more escalation. You're absolutely insane and people like you will be the end of us all.

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe they threw their president out because he stopped the EU progress they had made and had nothing to do with NATO. NATO came formally in to the picture in 2019 once the threat from Russia had mounted.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I highly recommend educating yourself on the subject before opining. Lots has been written over the years.

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] liwott@nerdica.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

US officials, unhappy with the scuttled EU deal, saw a similar chance in the Maidan protests.

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It’s an overstatement to say, as some critics have charged, that Washington orchestrated the Maidan uprising. But there’s no doubt US officials backed and exploited it for their own ends.

Your source states very clearly that the US did not orchestrate the Maidan protests, and that its involvement was due to the aborted EU-deal.

Nothing in there about the Maidan government wanting to join NATO, aside from one reference to Putin's paranoia about it :

After Putin moved to secure the Crimean naval base from NATO control

Indeed, the article referenced in this sentence says:

“Our decision on Crimea was partly due to ... considerations that if we do nothing, then at some point, guided by the same principles, NATO will drag Ukraine in and they will say: ‘It doesn’t have anything to do with you.’”

So, according to your source, Crimea was not annexed in reaction to Ukraine giving up its neutrality, but in prevision of it.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nuland is literally on tape selecting the government after the coup, but you do you bud.

[–] liwott@nerdica.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not my point, I never said the US did not participate.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Participate is such a great euphemism for saying US actively worked to overthrow the government.

[–] liwott@nerdica.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"participating" means "actively working", how is this wordplay contradicting my comment?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

US orchestrated this coup, and I've linked you tons of documents supporting this in our previous discussion. I recall you whining that it was too much reading.

[–] liwott@nerdica.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You did link a ton of documents, and I have not found yet the ones supporting that claim (does not help that you did not single them out). In fact, the article that we are discussing here, who as I highlighted explicitly states the opposite, was part of that ton of documents.

It is the second time that you use this document to support what it denies.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sorry you have poor reading comprehension.

[–] liwott@nerdica.net 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Please, help me understanding what I poorly comprehend in

US officials, unhappy with the scuttled EU deal, saw a similar chance in the Maidan protests.

It’s an overstatement to say, as some critics have charged, that Washington orchestrated the Maidan uprising. But there’s no doubt US officials backed and exploited it for their own ends.

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[–] v162@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, this is than a misunderstanding im just for do something and don't looking away like we did this the last years. But to be a democratic regime this decision was coming from the Ukraine folk otherwise there would like it to be a part of Russia again. Of course the NATO did mistakes the last years but this is still not acceptable what Russia/Putin is doing.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

NATO is currently fuelling the conflict and fighting Russia in a proxy war at great cost to Ukraine. This isn't something that happened in the past, NATO is playing a direct role in the atrocities today. Of course, this doesn't justify what Russia is doing, but it takes two to tango. My original point is that the west chose to escalate towards conflict instead of pursuing diplomacy. Now there is a war in Europe and millions of people are suffering. Yet, the west continues to fuel the fire bringing us to the brink of global annihilation.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

despite promises not to move east

There was never any such promise.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Promises between countries are made with treaties, not words traded over breakfast.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

A promise was made, and later broken. You claimed that no such promise was made which was a lie.

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[–] mirror_slap@lemmy.film 1 points 2 years ago

op = Russkaya Tsvetnaya Bolonka

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I just don't want a fucking nuclear war man.

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We cannot cave in just because one country points at nukes, and Russia hasn't made a direct threat either. This shit and all the Russian tv-shows with bedlamites talking about nuking Britain are made purely to spread fear. Just change side and go back to sleep.

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[–] Matheo_bis@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just ~~don’t~~ want a fucking nuclear war man.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

You'd think that wouldn't be too much to ask, and yet here we are.

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

Did they zoom in to a Helsinki signpost again to make sure we know where they're headed?

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