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There is a "peace organization" here in Sweden, Svenska Freds, that are hard core pacifists. No matter what - pacifists. Their reasoning is like children. War is bad, everybody should be friends, the end. Reality should conform to this simple principle.
In the early days of the invasion, their loud public stance was that Sweden should not support Ukraine with military equipment. Ukraine was just as bad as Russia for defending themselves with weapons when they should use reason and diplomacy.
Then they got all weepy in the media when people called them useful idiots for Russia.
Absolutely hate those sorts of people. I'm a pacifist too, but not at the cost of my own life.
exert from Orwell on Pacifism and the war
There's this codepink in u.s. thats like this organization too, except only think remarkable about them is when their website was flooded with signatures from trolls that said things like hating african americans, praising zelensky or putin AND hitler in same sentence and using putin's credentials as if it were a regular signature.
Source?
This reminds me of that cunt Caitlin Johnstone saying the simple solution in Ukraine was detente. As if that is an option when you're defending against the entire removal of your culture, history, heritage, and people.
So if your country was being invaded you'd just lie down and take it? Perhaps even say thank you? You're naive to think that talking will magically solve things when you're against an enemy who clearly doesn't have the same moral standards as you. They're attempting to take what they want with force, they've already demonstrated that they don't care for niceties like negotiation.
Imagine trying to talk it out with a mugger. They don't care what you want to talk about. They want your money.
This makes you sound like those moronic Facebook posts that say things like "1 like = 1 prayer, ignore = you hate puppies". It's not a good look.
I already gave you the mugger analogy, so one of three things is happening.
In any of these cases, it appears you are not debating in good faith. As such, I will no longer engage. Goodbye.
Please go to Ukraine and test this routine on Russian soldiers, it will go really well for you, like that ad of Kendall Jenner solving racism with a Pepsi
Oh most enlightened one, ye who stands upon the highest of moral ground, please share with us your illuminated opinion of how the Ukraine should have responded? Or for that matter, any enemy who wishes to take your land and kill your people.
Clearly you are the most learned among us, and have solved the puzzle of how to overcome a violent enemy without resorting to violence, so please I beg of you oh sage one to teach us your great wisdom so that we may be as ethically correct as you.
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Aww I missed their rage response, I am guessing they had no better response than "let the violent party take whatever they want"? Yeah cause that's a super great plan, and definitely doesn't incentivize more violence.
Good Lawd, check your blood pressure, you look worrying with all these caps and bolds
This guy would help the Russians if they invaded his country. Just vile.
Here, let me bring some light into your understanding of the matter.
Imagine, and I want you to really visualize this, a large man has a visible gun on his belt. He demands that you strip nude and give him everything you have. There is no path you can run towards, he's blocking the only exit and, again, has a gun. It just so happens that you also have a gun, and unlike his, yours is already drawn. What do you do?
How funny, it seems you're dodging the very simple question. Almost like you're devoid of intellectual honesty.
I advocate the defense of people and cities. You advocate their surrender. You would trade anything for peace, especially justice. You would rather have a negative peace than accept that the world is not as simple as you would like it to be, and there are some enemies who are simply not interested in negotiation. You are what we call a "useful idiot."
Those are some very good questions to ask the aggressor, Russia.
What justice is there in rolling over and saying, "no, we don't have a right to self-determination in any way, please take anything you want, Russia!" If push came to shove you would be a collaborator, and aider and abetter of war crimes to save your own skin, and that cognitive dissonance makes you so uncomfortable that you put on this humanitarian act in order to maintain a moral high ground that does not exist. It is not virtuous to allow others to kill you, dominate you, and steal from you. It is monstrous to imply that Russia's right to delusions of empire trump Ukraine's right to determine their country's affairs, and even more monstrous to use the death of innocents as a shield for your craven delusions that everything would be fine if people just gave the naked aggressors everything they want.
WW2 happened because of retards like you.
Man what a dogshit take lol
Lie and paint japan as a an evil, aggressive, horrible enemy? If anything allied propaganda was below the mark regarding just how evil the Japanese were. Nanjing? Manilla? Shanghai? Unit 731?
What a fucking idiot!
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So the solution is that the one side that already has a bunch of guns, gets to kill as many people on the other side, and we must not help the other side defend themselves?
Always give the aggressor everything they want and let them kill as many civilians as they need to.
Sure.
Some of what they want = to own all of Ukraine, and for Ukrainians to not exist as a culture, let alone a nation.
There's no temporary about it. There's no "some of what they want" about it. Negotiations have been tried time and time again. Ceasefires have been tried, but guess what, Russia just bombarded the civilian evacuation corridors when they were negotiated because the goal is to kill as many Ukrainians as possible.
Putin is not rational, this is an ego war. I take it you were never bullied in school. You might not know what it's like when someone's main goal in life is to make yours hell. You can just lay on the ground and play dead, that won't stop them from kicking you. There's no talking your way out of it unless you yourself are at least as strong as the bully. This is what Russia is. A schoolyard bully. Any type of negotiated peace short of total capitulation is going to be nothing more than a way to catch Ukraine with its' pants down and kill more Ukrainians and grab more territory. The only way Russia will stop killing innocent people is if they either run out of resources, or Putin himself gets deposed.
Nothing quite like peacefully rolling tanks over the the border and killing the border guards, eh?
I seem to remember a certain Jew that was a pacifist and advocated “turning the other cheek.” What a chump. /s
That same jew also violently threw merchants out of a temple. People are complicated.
Then faked a suicide by cop. Seriously, some people... I can't even. /s
If you believe the Bible, then he was literally God. Zelensky isn't that.
Have you seen his comedy show? He’s close enough… /s
I was trying to show this poster the hypocrisy of their comment. Jesus was a pacifist, therefore we should be too.