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It’s like every time there’s a war everybody forgets how fucking long they take. WW2 took six years. The Vietnam War took almost 20 years, same with the Afghanistan War. Anybody expecting anything solid within the next couple years is delusional. Ukraine is in it for the long haul.

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That’s not strictly true. On the short end, there was the six-day war. On the long end, there was the hundred years’ war.

Putin was clearly aiming for the short option, but then I suppose most belligerents usually are.

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I’d actually love to see a graph that shows the distribution of lengths of various wars

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“We’ll fight til the last Ukrainian!” - libs

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“We shouldn’t help the rape victim and they should hope that it’s over quickly. Also, it’s actually not rape, it’s a special sexual operation and they deserved it.” - Tankies

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Funny how if you’re against another endless war you’re a tankie and support Putin…

I’m neither a tankie nor I support Putin. But I also don’t support NATO and the Empire.

But just as a note, most “tankies” don’t support Russia and know Putin is a conservative capitalist. I mean he is the direct result of the dismantling of the USSR by internal revisionists (tsarists and capitalists) and the CIA.

But again, it’s the Iraq war all over again. And you libs are doing THE SAME THING. It’s hilarious.

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And shelling civilians in the Donbas is presumably the equivalent of putting on a nice dress in your metaphor?

Make extremely inappropriate and wrong rape comparison ⇒ Accuse anyone who disagrees of being a rape apologist ⇒ FUCK TANKIES!

Extremely normal and sound logic there, definitely not just vibe-based emotional manipulation.

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There’s a lot of angry liberals replying to your post, so I thought I’d link a great video on how/why the war in Ukraine came to be:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8&si=gaMRzFwo5JP5RzeD

This channel is leftist but they aren’t communists, as far as I know.

Tldw: This war was completely avoidable. Had the US/NATO kept its promise to not expand eastward none of this would have happened. Even Biden said that 25 years ago. Americans groomed certain Ukrainians for political office, and prevented others from running. There was an opportunity to end the war last year on somewhat decent terms for Ukraine, but Boris Johnson rushed in to stop it from happening, promising massive support. But war exhaustion has caught up and Ukraine is running out of people, and western leaders are already starting to call for the end of the war — except this time it will be on russias terms and Ukraine is going to get fucked. Big western capitalists have had their fingers in this pie because there’s a lot of money to be made in the country. That’s it.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that Putins invasion was a horrific, imperialist move. Any commie you see protesting the war isn’t doing it because they support Russia (Russia is a capitalist country), they’re doing it because they don’t support NATO. We are often the makers of our own enemies here in the west. Viet Cong, Taliban, ISIS, and Russia were all created or shaped by western (mainly US) policies.

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Seems like to you being a lib means not falling for badly researched, one-sided videos?

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We can hope Putin dies from being an old fuck and Russia gives up

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The US is on its last legs though. It badly needed this win. The US falls before Putin dies.

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What drugs are you on and where can I get some?

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Good for Kyiv. Those armchair generals should shut up and fight if they think things are going slowly.

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