"as many Ukrainians among these Russians" ๐
This isn't some complex moral quandary. Russia is trying to invade Ukraine to take their land and steal their resources.
Russians are fighting this war for money: the Russian military is promising huge (for Russia) salaries to soldiers. If it was successful, it would have been a very profitable war because Ukraine has trillions or dollars worth of resources to steal; Russia has already stolen something like a trillion dollars worth of land and resources already.
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Ok Peter Todd black and white it is
Ukraine has no resources worth trillions of dollars; they only have billions in debt and cheap labor for the EU. And even if those "trillions of dollars" worth of resources did exist, the U.S. would simply take them for free, just as they've done in the Middle East.
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Just in the occupied areas, there's about $12 trillion worth of resources, including coal, iron ore, etc.
And Ukraine has more top quality topsoil than any other country in the world. There's a reason why they're (still) one of the world's top food exporterers.
As for the US, they haven't taken resources for free.

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Russia plundering Ukraine's natural resources โ DW โ 08/28/2023
Ukraine is known as one of Europe's largest grain producers. But it also has valuable natural resources such as iron ore and coal that Russia is ea...