anyway, this thread is filled with garbage. First and foremost the fact there's a war is terrible, what a miserable affair, but I can't help but mock the people urging the US to send troops and "fix" things when the US created this goddamn conflict in the first place. Putin was literally approved as Yeltsin's successor by fucking Bill Clinton himself in secret talks, they sponsored a far right coup of the Ukrainian government in 2014, they funded and armed neo nazi militias and they forced Ukraine to withdraw from the negotiating table and egged on Putin with threats of Nato (an obsolete organization founded and run in part by nazi officials jfc) encircling Russia. So the US toyed with Ukraine, made it into a buffer to contain Russia and then when Ukraine genuinely needs help, they flee. Anyone reading this needs to understand that Putin is also a maniac, who thinks that the Soviet Union failed because they cared too much about their people's wellfare, he only cares about power and authority, the invasion does not surprise me one bit.
I mean this conflict is really the result of one giant diplomatic fuckup and shitty cold war era miscalculations, it sucks, and the poor, the working class, the average man and woman are dying and suffering, caught between two shitty forces arm wrestling over territory. To be very clear, I absolutely detest Putin, he's a grifter, a reactionary traitor, and a fascist who believes in violence, but so are US politicians who provoqued this war when the writing was on the wall for the past 15 years. And once again, everyday people suffer the consequences of shitty decision making.