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    For german government “Never again” meant just never again genocide against jews. All other people are fine and free game.

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      Reluctant to send arms to Ukraine but not for Israel who already has overwhelming advantages over against Palestinians and received trillions of dollars of support over the past 70 years already. Keeping that priorities straight, Germany!

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        Germany has been the second largest military supplier to Ukraine after the US. They are very much providing for that war too.

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          Germany had been reluctant to send lethal arms and tanks to Ukraine months after the Russian invasion started for fear of further provoking Russia. German chancellor Scholz first only sent helmets to Ukraine, of all the more useful military hardware Germany could have sent sooner.

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            Wouldn’t have made a difference to the outcome of the war anyway. And if they hadn’t sent those heavy weapons, Ukraine might have not attempted their disastrous counter-offensive, and all those fallen soldiers might still be alive.

            Great job, Western powers: Block peace talks and send weapons so that the war lasts probably two years the longer than necessary, hundreds of thousands additional dead, a shit-ton of destroyed infrastructure, large swaths of farmland mined and littered with unexploded ordinance, and worse negotiating position for Ukraine. Some strategic geniuses at work there.

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              I would disagree. Russia won’t stop so long as Putin is alive and Russia is still in Ukraine. He lied numerous times and could not be trusted. That’s like imagining Britain to give up and trust Hitler after the fall of France. As much as Russian propaganda try to frame it, the Russian state is the fascist one.

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                Well the strategic calculus for Ukraine is 100% guaranteed war now or 95% guaranteed war later. I don’t see a practical reason why ceasefire is a bad option here.

                I’m sure ww2 Britain would have been quite happy with a simple ceasefire especially if it meant more time for American aid to arrive

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                  And let the Nazis recoup and build up forces… just like allowing Putin to do so when he had asked for a ceasefire before.

                  People haven’t learned have they?

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                    Brother the whole reason Putin started this war is he was scared Ukraine was becoming too well armed and he wouldn’t be able to invade it in the future. This isn’t ww2, we both know Russia cannot hope to compete in industrial/military output with the countries supplying Ukraine (if only they would actually supply the gear).

                    And also I might be misremembering but when has Putin asked for much less gotten a ceasefire of any length of time after 2022? Can you give a source?

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                  Putin had also asked for ceasefire when he started losing. It is naive to think he won’t use it as opportunity to regroup and attack again. Even the Nazis offered terms for ceasefire before to the West.

                  Putin could have stopped at Crimea when the West basically gave him the Munich moment, when they only gave the Russian president a slap on the wrist for annexing the peninsula despite others having demanded harder sanctions. But like Hitler, he wanted more. Don’t try to enable another fascist by thinking the tears are not from a crocodile.

                  Edit: wording

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                    There are so many differences between Nazi Germany and present-day Russia, between Putin and Hitler, and between this war and WW2. It’s a great rhetoric tool for shutting down discussion though.

                    No matter how badly the war goes, no matter what the actual things that Russia says they want, no matter that Ukraine is destroyed and hundreds of thousands soldiers dead: They have to keep on fighting. Can’t negotiate with Hitler! Can’t trust anything they say! Have to keep on fighting until Putin is no more or everyone is dead, because, you know, HiTLeR!! Hitler is coming to kill us all and we need to fight to the death!

                    No need for analysis, no need for evidence. HITLER! Argument over.