Why did Russia invade Ukraine?

Rare earth metals. Ukraine has heaps. You can't build nukes without rare earth metals.

Psychopathic dictator wanting to restore the former “Russian Empire”.

"The only way to actually achieve a lasting peace is to actually win." If the war continues it will be Russia that wins.

The Ukrainians should be free to join NATO and the European Union if they so choose and if NATO and Europe will have them.

Zelensky is a Ukrainian like my collie is the King of France.

According to your logic, if I suggest catching and imprisoning a criminal, I am promoting violence, because in order to do so, violence must be used. So, we should not use violence against criminals?

I hear Russia is broke AF. Why no deal?

peter i have red your post three time and am atill unclear about what actual point you are making

I've always thought that what Ukraine needs now is a break. In order to regroup, rearm itself and train the next generation for the next war with Russia. Putin can't afford for that to happen for several reasons. One of them is that Russia's weapons wouldn't get any significantly better during a break, whilst Ukraine's stockpile would be much more improved. (I may be wrong about my theory.)

Yes, and Russia should also be admitted to NATO and be allowed to have missiles based in Mexico.

So the only way to have peace is to make war. Clever.

The City of London bankers need more collateral to back up their money printing by the central banks/Bank of England. So which country has the most collateral (I.e. natural resources): Russia. Bankers need to topple Russia, break it up and seize its assets. They were in the process of doing this in the 1990s after the USSR collapse (via Russian-Jewish oligarchs controllng Yeltsin) until Putin came along and stopped them. In addition the British have always hated Russia, for multiple centuries. So, use UKR as a battering ram against Russia. Cause Russian instability by, first, installing a russophobic UKR government (see 2014 Maidan coup in UKR by CIA, MI6, US State Dept), provoke Russian invasion, by crossing Russian red line of UKR joining NATO on Russia's border, defeating Russia, toppling Putin, splitting up Russia, and, voila, seizure of Russian natural resources. Plot twists: Trump wins in 2024, Russia is defeating UKR, with Davos, European oligarchs, City of London all going apeshit now. Look for false flag psyop perpetrated by the bankers (dirty bomb, tactical nuke - blaming Russia). WWIII kicks off, defeat Russia in nuclear combat, reset the global economy, erasing all government debts, and restart the cycle all over again, this time with decimated global population and enacting global CBDC and social scoring. Elite bankers win. Serfs/plebs lose.

The City of London bankers need more collateral to back up their money printing by the central banks/Bank of England. So which country has the most collateral (I.e. natural resources): Russia. Bankers need to topple Russia, break it up and seize its assets. They were in the process of doing this in the 1990s after the USSR collapse (via Russian-Jewish oligarchs controllng Yeltsin) until Putin came along and stopped them. In addition the British have always hated Russia, for multiple centuries. So, use UKR as a battering ram against Russia. Cause Russian instability by, first, installing a russophobic UKR government (see 2014 Maidan coup in UKR by CIA, MI6, US State Dept), provoke Russian invasion, by crossing Russian red line of UKR joining NATO on Russia's border, defeating Russia, toppling Putin, splitting up Russia, and, voila, seizure of Russian natural resources. Plot twists: Trump wins in 2024, Russia is defeating UKR, with Davos, European oligarchs, City of London all going apeshit now. Look for false flag psyop perpetrated by the bankers (dirty bomb, tactical nuke - blaming Russia). WWIII kicks off, defeat Russia in nuclear combat, reset the global economy, erasing all government debts, and restart the cycle all over again, this time with decimated global population and enacting global CBDC and social scoring. Elite bankers win. Serfs/plebs lose.

Spot on, but way to complex for the video game generation to understand.

Allowed by who? Each country should make its own decision. Do you think Mexico would want that?

Or Cuba

So you think Cuba would want that? You aren’t smart.

You're not very clued up on history, are you.

Cuban Missile Crisis is your reference? C’mon man we’re not in a 1962 world. Even though Putin would prefer that. Stop reading Scott Horton rubbish.

It's an analogy kiddo. What do you think NATO is if it isn't primarily an anti-Russia aggressor? Russia is as keen to have NATO/US missiles based in Ukraine as the the US is to having Russian ones in Cuba or Mexico.

Read history. Russia is the overwhelming aggressor of that part of the world for centuries. That’s why NATO exists. Why do you think the vast vast majority of Ukrainians want as far away from autocratic Russia as possible??? You sound like some US “libertarian” that gargles Tucker Carlson and Jeffrey Sachs trash. “Libertarians” that don’t believe the free country of Ukraine should be allowed to self determine.

Your analogy isn’t reality. That’s the point.

He believes Ukraine should not agree to a peace deal and that the war should continue & hopefully Ukraine will win.

Easy to say from where you are. But people are dying in trench because of these 2 mafia's (Ukrainian State and Russian's State) at war. "Kings die, but the people live on". Unless you send them to die for nothing again and again.

Many Ukrainian Jews are being killed. It is funny and I will pee on their bodies

The Germans lost the first world war. They signed their defete. Yet that win led to the second world war. Winning is not always a path to peace. There is also a question what is the price of winning? Will sacrificing half of Ukraine be an acceptable price for victory even if it meant a stable peace.

You are obsessed with maintaining ongoing war. Let me guess, Jewish?

Lol you clearly didn’t read the post 😂

I believe exact opposite 🤷🏼‍♀️ maybe I agree about weapon development but Russia can only be exhausted by continuous counter-attack. Also, Ukraine being the defender taking a break implies that the battle will inevitably be restarted. I believe that Russia has to be brought to the point where restarting the attack (or continuing the imperial fantasy) is literally impossible

Lol

I live in my hometown, russian bastards are attacking my town and bombing it. And you think it's ukraine's fault? And no one is sending me to war, I want myself to kill every russian soldier who came to my town.

French gov and UK gov thought exactly like that about Germany after WWI and it lead to WWII very quickly. This is a never ending scheme, of conquest, revenge, ego and power. We should be focusing on stoping the killings ASAP and defund our respective mafias (the State), rather than finding a winners. You can't win anything if you are dead. There is no such generalized hate between fellow humans out of the coercitive and manipulative hands of Nation States

The French and UK governments barely defeated Germany. The economic restrictions on Germany were clearly insufficient, and as Germany started rearming nothing was done even though Germany was clearly violating the conditions imposed on it. Meanwhile, after WW2, when Germany was actually crushed with millions more dead and their economy was truly collapsed, peace finally was achieved. The lesson here is to actually defeat Russia, thoroughly, without holding back. Same with Gaza. It is absurd that a single member or supporter of Hamas is allowed to live.

Ukrainian Jews are losing.record setting amount of dead Ukrainian children and Jews and no one in the west cares :) All kiles will die and no one bats an eye. :)

@Peter Todd is a 5”3 Jew. Ukrainian Jews and Israel kikes are losing. The USA is against Jews and Kikes

Everyday another thousand Ukrainian Jew children die and this is why I smile and sleep soundly at night

How the fuck do you imaginestopping the killing ASAP before the aggressor state is collapsed? By telling a dictator pretty please? Do you imagine that if ukraine surendered some territory the russia would stop having imperialist ambitions? Same with “greater Israel”. These psychos have ambitions much wider than the current conflicts and if you stop them at one front they will start attacking the next at the first opportunity. I agree with Peter that Hamas members should be disempowered just want to remind that Hamas is a consequence of Israels expansion and not the other way around.

They were ridiculous at the opposite but never were really plainly enforced because it was far too heavy for the crushed German economy. It lead to hyperinflation under Weimar ruining Germany ‘ economy once and then ruining it again in 1929 when American credit were cancelled due to the crisis in the US. This created enormous resentments toward French/Britain/US leading to the national socialists growing popularity and you know the following. You don’t create peace by humiliating people and make them pay for the mistake of their king/sovereign/slaver, call it as you wish. You just create other monsters. The only way is to collectively understand that we must defund these mafias entities and make them shrink as soon as possible. Or it’s an always repeating story. The defense budget increase voted by Germany this last few years and especially this year is just another beginning. It will happen again. Bad economics, collectivist ideas growing and blaming others for their failure, growing defense budgets. You don’t have to be smart to see that it’s a new total war in the next decade.

I don't how. You on the other hand sounds like you perfectly know and it's obvious but I think you are wrong. As long as you are not yourself in the trenches it's just talk, talk talk let's continue the war until the end blabla... I'm thinking about the people in the cold and blood right now. I'm not sure they care which mafia will run them eventually. Those brainwashed and / or hungry for revenge maybe, but I'm sure even them would be relieved to be send back home, independently of the mafia who won. So I don't really care how Trump manages to end this war as long as it sends the guys with their families ASAP. You are all falling in the trap they set for us, Peter always hungrily falling for their bullshit and taking a side. They succeed to make us forget that it's us against them. Not us against us. The real war is between States/governments and us. Stop being a sheep, stop being a slave, stop worshiping your masters and fight against the only real aggressors.

😂😂😂 Ah yes, the crushed German economy. So crushed it could... re-arm to fight WW2. You clearly can't think for yourself. You've believed historical lies pushed by typically lefty portrayals of history. The fact is the German economy was not crushed, and that's precisely how WW2 could happen. After WW2 we forced Germany to pay enormous reparations and tightly controlled their ability to fight war, and absolutely humiliated the population with forced labor, starvation, and guilt... and this time peace prevailed. Humiliation certainly does work. And the basic physics of economics works too. Russia will no longer be a threat when their people are more concerned about feeding themselves than invading their neighbors.

Lol babe, you are so right I’m not in the trenches, but I happen to be from country that spent half of it’s history under russian occupation and one thing I know for very sure is that daddy trump is not going to solve any of problems of Eastern Europe. I mean he can’t recognize the president of Finland when he is sitting in right front of him 😂 let’s hope he’s going to manage to solve like one problem in the US. Also, btw, I recommend you to start paying attention to trumps ships heading to Venezuela as you might have a Trump™️ war starting way closer to your boarder soon

Oh and wait I agree with all you are saying in the last paragraph there. Do share your personal strategy of not being a slave and how you personally fight the masters and I will make sure to join the cause. I’ll send you sats, god damn it, if you can show me the way that you yourself are fighting the government while hosting trumps tiny shrunk granpa dick in your mouth 👄

Russian state attacked Ukrainian people. not sure what are you on about.

Russian mafia attacked Ukrainian's mafia. The fight caused casualties and then the mafias force enrolled the people they enslave to fight for them. War would be over if only professionals volountary people from each mafias had fought.

How is bombing schools, universities, hospitals, cafes, apartment buildings is not attacking people?

Got numbers on volunteers from russia vs Ukraine? Spoiler: it’s very telling

Anyways, not sure if you are from europe or the other side of the pond but it’s clear to me that you will not grasp what attack on people (and culture) means until the army rolls into your town so I will disengage from this discussion.