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The main goal is to stop people from dying with hopes of making the stopping of the dying permanent. Considering Russia wants all of Ukraine and Ukraine obviously doesn't want to be taken over by Russia, there isn't much middle ground to build upon a ceasefire.
The best way to ensure peace is to give Ukraine the tools they need to repel the invader. Secondary tariffs on anyone helping Russia is certainly helpful in repelling the invader.
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It's not acceptable for the Houthi to continue to attack civilians.
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It's no surprise it's all countries bordering Russia. Gotta do what you gotta do!
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Most of the internet, huge portions of the world's servers run on Linux. It has had a huge bullseye on it for a long, long time.
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Don’t fret it, happens to everyone. And the rapidly changing pace of the news here makes ot all the more likely.
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Yeah, the reporting I have seen says the ceasefire wasn't fully followed at first, but has been holding since.
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When they try to negotiate for food or economic assistance, it gets framed as extortion
When one threatens death and destruction in exchange for money and goods, one does frame that as extortion, yes.
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Why the hell would you want Iran to have nukes? Just because Israel and/or US bad, doesn't mean Iran is good. Far, far from it.
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consistently want to be left alone to do their thing
They consistently want to extract economic and food assistance from other countries via threatening all kinds of shit. But otherwise, yes.
10 points ·
It was attempted many times by South Korea, by the US, and by others to get North Korea to trash their nuclear program. It didn't work.
The world learned if a country isn't giving up their nuclear program, even with large incentives to do so, one cannot just hope things change in the future. That baseless hope is how we got a nuclear armed North Korea. The world learned, and a different strategy is being taken with Iran.
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There is certainly room for more direct assistance to Ukraine. Easy examples include establishing air supremacy over the country and performing airstrikes on invaders inside Ukraine.
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That’s a totally different situation from a totally different time....a singular, mostly unrelated action
Both situations are about Iran closing the Straight of Hormuz and the US response to such. It's hard to draw up a more similar event. Second up would be the ongoing operations against the Houthis who are attempting to close a different straight.
12 points ·
Do they want to lose half their navy in a day, again?
For those who want to watch a great animated video on the event: Operation Praying Mantis
2 points ·
Ukraine regularly reports Russian casualties and destroyed equipment. The Russian casualty number ticked over 1M a few days ago. I'm guessing 'casualty' got lost in translation at some point and turned into 'killed'. I do see people making this mistake a lot with casualties, which is both killed and wounded.
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