• Dogyote@slrpnk.net
        02·
        11 months ago

        But will their lives really be any different whether they win or lose? It’s not like they’re being invaded by a country with a different economic system.

        Edit: Look at Crimea, how’d that go for the average Crimean? Any significant differences in their quality of life?

        • Zorque@kbin.social
          21·
          11 months ago

          If you see no differences between the Ukrainian government, flawed as it has been, and the Russian government under Putin… you may need to look a little deeper.

            • MxM111@kbin.social
              2·
              11 months ago

              Ukrainians disagree. And they are the ones that matter. If you want to live in slavery or without political rights, it is your choice, of course.

              • Dogyote@slrpnk.net
                0·
                11 months ago

                Well yeah, it’s up to them, but I don’t think they’re monolithic. They’ll eventually negotiate once they run out of men or weapons. I don’t think they’d be slaves if Russia captured Kyiv either. Perhaps without political rights, but that wasn’t much different than before.

                • MxM111@kbin.social
                  0·
                  11 months ago

                  I think that’s exactly the point - they know how it was before, and they know how it can be by looking in neighboring EU.

            • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
              11·
              11 months ago

              Yet somehow almost every nation that’s neighboring Russia is ready to fight Russia just for the privilege of not being in Russia. We cannot all be just delusional.