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Sorry for the headline. I don't know why they don't just say it's Vivek Ramaswamy.

To that end, I will accept Russian control of the occupied territories and pledge to block Ukraine’s candidacy for NATO in exchange for Russia exiting its military alliance with China. I will end sanctions and bring Russia back into the world market. In this way, I will elevate Russia as a strategic check on China’s designs in East Asia.

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[–] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Vivek Ramaswamy is a fucking ghoul, and so is Putin, but if — like some commenters in this thread — you are concerned about WW3, then Vivek's position here is less bellicose than the official American "Push NATO right up to Russia's border, plant missiles five minutes from Moscow, deny Russian access to the warm water port at Crimea" position. It is also the position most likely to end a war that has already killed half a million people. What Vivek offers is what Putin started the war to obtain.

There is some evidence — various polls, and also the fact that a civil war raged for eight years — indicating that a sizable portion of the population in the contested regions of eastern Ukraine is either ambivalent about or would prefer Russian rather than Kyiv rule. Granting them this would probably not be worse than killing another half million people in Ukraine.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So why not have a vote in the matter without the goons with guns standing over.

Russia last all credibility when they invaded. That's their problem.

[–] straycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP's comment history says a lot

[–] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What does it say? It’s not that long, go ahead and read all of it and tell me what you think it says about me.

[–] straycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People curious enough to look are free to do so :)

[–] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I want you to. You specifically.

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