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Chairman of the Ukrainian parliament Defense Committee:
âThe United States has stopped selling weapons to Ukraineâ
It was confirmed at the press briefing, cited something about depleted inventory blah blah blah. Putin is getting all he wanted and more.
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The war didnât start with Putinâs invasion. Thatâs intellectually vapid. There was ethnic strife for decades, Zelensky regime and EU looked the other way when non-state actors committed atrocities. They tried ethnically cleaning the Russian language. They even decided what the ârealâ Orthodox Christian church was.
And now in 2025 Elections were cancelled. Polls show Zelensky would likely lose.
He is a dictator. He uses violent thugs to silence opposition.
This war isnât our responsibility.
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If itâs not our problem, get out of it. Cut ties and move on. Tell Europe to handle it. I can understand saying we arenât going to support yâall anymore. I disagree thatâs it not out problem but fine. I understand that position but thatâs not what we are doing.
We are instead stepping in and letting Russia set the terms and effectively win the war. And everything you said about Zelensky can be said about Putin and then some (exponentially).
We shouldnât be doing anything for Russia. Putin is a monster and should be treated as such.
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Whatever was happening inside Ukraine didnât justify Putinâs invasion.
As the first aggressor, Putin bears the full responsibility for this, not anyone in Ukraine. They are the VICTIMS of this aggression, and in no way brought this invasion on.
I like how you say Zelensky is a dictator, as if Putin isnât (he most certainly is), and as if that someone justifies another dictator coming in and in what is anything but an act of self-defense, violently destroying a neighboring country. Even assuming, just for argumentâs sake, that Zelensky is a dictator (something Iâm hardly sold on, but Iâll humor you), are you telling me that that justifies allowing a neighboring dictator to come in and rain death and destruction down on his neighbor and its people?
Come on now.
Guess what? You donât take the first aggressorâs side (and the first aggressor here IS Putinâs Russia), and you donât try to make out the first aggressor as the âgood guyâ and the first aggressorâs victim as the âbad guyâ that deserved it and had it coming.
Victim blaming is never appropriate when an illegal invasion takes place, as it did here.
REALLY uncool.
Itâs most definitely our business to continue to send Ukraine military aid, and to ensure that this aggression is forced back, because if we donâtâŠthen it sends the following message to Putin: âyou want to do the same to the Baltic StatesâŠwe wonât stand in the wayâŠand weâll even blame them when you invade them, not you.â
VERY BAD precedent.
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It isnât being forced back.
Then the last thing in the world you want to do is send a message to the effect of âhere Putin, congratulations on your illegal invasionâŠenjoy a victory and commendations from us, the victims of your illegal aggression had it coming.â
That appears to be the gist of your previous post.
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The disinformation war on Zelensky has begun and is being pushed by the US to benefit Putin.
The claim that Zelenskyy has a 4% approval rating appears to have been conjured from thin air: the only suggestion of any source for that figure comes from Russian media outlets citing a âpollâ conducted by Zelenskyy critic Oleksandr Dubinsky among his (deeply unrepresentative) Telegram followers.
Wherever he plucked it from, the number doesnât align at all with the credible available evidence. Zelenskyy himself suggested yesterday that the 4% figure was âdisinformation, we understand itâs coming from Russiaâ
Why hasnât Ukraine held elections since the war began? | Ukraine | The Guardian
Under Ukraineâs constitution, it is not legal to hold national elections during a period of martial law. This Foreign Policy article from 2023 outlines practical impediments that largely still hold today.
The disruption from air raids has made organisation and vote counting impossible, as well as bringing obvious risks if large numbers have to congregate at polling stations. Voters in the eastern areas worst affected by the war â or occupied â would be disenfranchised against those living in the west.
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For the record, I have no problem with the way you moderate, itâs more than fair, imo, and I commend it.
My problem lies elsewhere since Iâm convinced itâs become personal because of my points of view. I may be wrong but it sure seems that way to me.
Thanks and Iâll leave it at that.
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Iâve seen gaslighting (to be diplomatic about it or Iâd say BS) before but nothing ever like this.
DAMN! WOW! WTAF! 
Oh, and give us a freaking break! 
Edit: wars start when borders are abused. Letâs tap the brakes on nonsense.
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âUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky would have a strong chance at re-election if there was a vote, according to recent polls conducted by the
Kyiv International Institute of Sociology â
Itâs their country. Who cares if they tweak the language and decide what the Orthodox Church is? Is that really justification for a brutal invasion?
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Here is the actual article. It was even addressed at the WH Press briefing as they talked about depleted inventory in weapons to Ukraine, and that we had to increase our stock piles of weapons. If you want to wordsmith, the delivery of weapons has stopped, is the accurate phrase. It seems we may be severely slow playing the delivery of weapons. The companies who were to deliver the weapons are waiting for a political decision.
US Reportedly Halts Weapon Sales to Ukraine, Lawmaker Disputes Claim
"Lawmaker Roman Kostenko, who works as the secretary of the Verkhovna Radaâs Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, said some companies involved in weapon sales and deliveries to Ukraine are waiting for political decisions, but the exact reason for the suspension is unclear.
âAccording to my information, deliveries of the weapons that were going to be sold have stopped. Those companies that were supposed to transfer these weapons here are now waiting, because there is no decision,â Kostenko said in an interview.
So technically the other lawmaker is right, they have not stopped sales yet but it seems we are in no hurry to deliver them.
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WOW !
That may be the wildest statement ever in the history of coogfans.
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Welcome to Coogfans, Vlad!
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And itâs not remotely close. One could say itâs a done deal.
That will be hard to beat for this board and thatâs saying something!
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Iâve got Gateway Pundit arguments on speed dial
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