Quote (ofthevoid @ Jul 3 2023 09:07pm)
As soon as the west stops providing Ukraine weapons, the war stops, as they do not have the capacity to fight this war on their own. Sure I can live in fantasy land and get on a moral high horse, and demand the orc armies go home, a real popular take amongst low iq westerners, but I'm a realist. Fact of the matter Russia isn't going to give up this territory. They've mobilized 300+k people and could mobilize millions if they needed realistically. So this is a war of attrition, with Ukraine at best being on par as far as equipment (even with all of the western provision and billions) but never able to match the man power. So why would i want this to drag on for years? For 500k dead Ukrainians, maybe a couple of million? And for what? for pro-Russian parts of the country? Human lives > lines on a map.
I'm going to resist getting too salty, but haven't you been to Ukraine? You or your wife might have family there? And you want to subject them to the Russian army? The dudes who castrate Ukrainian men, who rape, torture, and murder the women? You would like those men to have Carte Blanche over Ukraine? This isn't Western propaganda, it's what they do. They are not a disciplined military. They are men ready to do evil.
Pretending that opposing military aid to Ukraine is actually helping the people of Ukraine is bullshit, plain and simple. You're some dude in New York pretending that you know how a normal Ukrainian feels. If Ukrainians want to fight, Americans should give them the tools to do so. If they want to negotiate, we should help them there. What we should not do is pressure them to capitulate to the raping, torturing, murdering Russian army/government. That's what you're trying to do.