Thank you for this

I personally prefer an analogy of a surgeon. Cutting people with sharp objects is bad, but when it’s for the benefit of a patient, it is a lesser damage and thus acceptable. Utilitarianism, if you like.

Those dead Russians came with an intention of killing as many Ukrainians as possible to achieve the aim of their leader. Killing them is a shame, but it’s the last available measure to reduce the number of people killed.

So to your question, if wishing to stop the killings makes one Ukrainian, then yes, everybody here is one. I thought just humans, but sure.

There’s a difference between getting excited over seeing a dead body and feeling hope that Ukraine is not losing when seeing invaders stopped.

Yes, they are humans, but they are humans that took the weapons and came to another country with the intent of killing people.

It’s just business https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-black-widows-scam-soldiers-death-benefits/33390012.html

They are humans and must be seen as such. The crazy part is that it’s humans like you and me that decide to do terrible things.

After ww2 there was a question whether fascism is something specific to Germans, they have an unusual number of psychopaths, etc.

And the conclusion was that it’s just normal people doing their everyday work. Be it accounting or operating a gas chamber.

Slip into fascism is gradual and no country is immune from that.

My bad. The 1:1.3 is the KIA:WIA ratio. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/61678

Also they’re happy to declare MIA because that let’s them skip a payment to the widow.

The UN is a do-nothing by design. The only way it can influence something is by creating peer pressure, which, quite obviously, has little effect on big bullies with veto rights.

And ironically, demanding a UN-governance is actually several steps down from the maximalist demands of pootler - they started with the idea of complete elimination of the Ukrainian state, went into demanding territory that they will take decades and millions of lives to occupy, now to a neutral, not even puppet government.

They’re winning so hard.

I read they’re now at 1:1.3 for KIA:MIA and not because of lacking healthcare, but they don’t bother trying to evacuate the wounded.

Now I’m really curious about what happened. Did the ruzzians try to break the cauldron or out of?

If anything, ruZZia already lost and Ukraine already won this war simply because ruZZia could not (and will not. Yes Ukrainians are tired, but their army and the support from EU is much better that at the beginning, while ruZZian situation is the exact opposite) achieve any of its goals from 3 years ago.

So the question is not whether there’s a win scenario for Ukraine, but how bad ruZZia will lose.

Before the war just one friend of mine switched. After the start, virtually every one did.

To your direct question, ruZZia occupied 1% of territory from the beginning of the full invasion. No big cities, iirc. So a lot of people affected, but not a lot a lot to introduce statistical change if that scale.

Life, mostly.

Amigo. It’s security guarantees against your further escalation and retaliation. One doesn’t include cancer’s opinion in the treatment plan.

Bro. Do you mean “what about discussing them without input from the country that violently invaded”?

They’re building those underground now. https://mindev.gov.ua/en/news/do-kintsia-roku-bude-pobudovano-blyzko-200-pidzemnykh-shkil-oleksii-kuleba

I believe your argument is an example of whataboutism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

While you’re not wrong that people in general tend to care more about matters directly affecting them, this fact is simply not relevant to the original fact that peace for ruZZia can only mean their complete victory and genocide for Ukrainians.

Don’t forget it’s russian people currently fighting in Ukraine. Yes, they are directed by their government, but they seem to have no issues with fighting (and supporting - somebody has to work in all those munitions factories), whether it’s some national pride or just money.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/54339

For me in this case the preferred approach is the Occam’s razor - fsb found a way to take over. But following your credo, telegram is absolutely prohibited in the Ukrainian army - either they know or the risk is too high. Which is kind of the same thing.

Used to. ruZZian government was attacking it hard and then suddenly stopped. After they started cooperating. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Telegram_in_Russia

It’s a top secret Ukrainian battle rainbow.