• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    or because all putin has to do is stop invading ukraine. he doesn’t get to invade and then negotiate to keep part of the place he invaded

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      10 months ago

      That’s literally how all negotiations work. Hostage negotiations - you take hostages and then negotiate for benefits in exchange for release. War negotiations - you dominate a space and then negotiate for benefits in exchange for ending violence. Unless you’re the USA, where you dominate a region after the majority of forces are already defeated and then when someone tries to negotiate their surrender you nuke 200k civilians.

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        10 months ago

        Unless you’re the USA, where you dominate a region after the majority of forces are already defeated and then when someone tries to negotiate their surrender you nuke 200k civilians.

        Damn when did that happen?? Sounds truly awful

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      10 months ago

      he doesn’t get to invade and then negotiate to keep part of the place he invaded

      Are you at all familiar with any history at all? How do you think such treaties usually go? Or did you think borders spent the last couple millenia shifting mysteriously without reason?

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        10 months ago

        The wider international community has largely rejected wars of conquest as legitimate in modern times.

        The exact same argument could be applied to Israel and e.g. the Golan Heights, but I don’t think you’ll find that to be a particularly popular position.

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          10 months ago

          The wider international community has largely rejected wars of conquest as legitimate in modern times.

          The international community in question:

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          10 months ago

          Are you so naive to think that Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and even the 2013 coup in Ukraine were not acts of conquest of the US empire? Perhaps you’re correct that the wider international community has rejected acts of conquest, but this certainly doesn’t include the USA, who is quite literally a rogue state.