It is also completely inadequate comparison. It is not a cornered dog but a dog that escaped his own yard and went into the neighbours. It can always return home.
People like you really are something else. The Ukrainian people are fighting for their future and the future of their children and they know, if they give up it will be the end for them and their country. But you come in here and tries to take some kind of morale high ground because your precious oil price is far more important then the future of 40 million people.
I’ll give @shamans credit for at least owning up to his opinion. I don’t agree with it but I bet 30-40% of my country does.
Thanks for the context, as usual, harms.
These forces aren't about the US "being the world's policeman" it's the US protecting US interests, US values, US trade and the US international order and Americans benefit a great deal from being citizens of a global empire run according to its rules. The US is of course free to withdraw itself from the world but I expect it would regret it very quickly.
This is very true and is a mistake that Angela Merkel should never be allowed to forget. One thing that surprises me is that both Merkel and Scholz were either Stasi aligned directly or were at least working with them prior to the fall of the Berlin wall, and thus may well have very different ideas of what it is to deal with the Russians when compared to the rest of us. It's worrisome to me - I can't help feel like the European Union, rather than working to win the fight in the Ukraine, is simply trying to carve it's own piece of it. That might, of course, be utterly ridiculous but people in such positions do tend to think longer term than say the next few years, and I expect would absolutely be willing to sacrifice the Eastern regions of Ukraine to bring Kiev and West Ukraine under its democratic umbrella. I hope I'm wrong in that, because Ukraine is its own country since the days of Lenin. And if any pro-EC people want to take umbrage with that point I don't blame you at all, it is probably being overly paranoid, but it still feels to me that the UK is seen in vaguely antagonistic terms despite its clear and present efforts against the aggression happening -today-... I know people in the Carrier Strike Group doing exercises right now and I could have been a part of it under different circumstances so I actually do understand what it is to be on the front line.
yeah, those materialist egoists who number the three million people regularly using food banks. what a bunch of selfish pricks. seriously, many millions are in brackets just above that limit. jesus christ.
wealth. most of the people, like >90% of them, impacted by the crisis are not in any way wealthy.
I was talking about the UK. Part of what you say is true. there are or will be people who are very well off or even comfortable who won't want to pay anything or undergo any hardship. and not just for Ukraine but basically any cause that isn't immediate to them. but there is also an enormous percentage of the population that is really struggling both in Europe and the US. if I was coming back from a food bank and someone told me I needed to do more I'd tell them to get fecked and that wouldn't have anything to do with Ukraine. same if I was in the bracket just above that. it isn't just the war that is responsible for the inflation crisis anyway but it has made it worse. it's just not the right approach imo to tell people who are struggling that they're selfish or aren't sacrificing enough when wealth inequality is at the worst level it has ever been in the US and Europe.
It means a few bucks more for everything but that is nothing compared to being tortured or raped in my opinion. Maybe you value cheap food and gas over the safety of your close ones but I don't and neither do the Ukrainians.
