This doesn’t answer your question and is only tangentially related but when an opportunity comes up to share this you don’t want to sleep on it.

https://youtu.be/5ofEwuHhWGw?is=BPJSF6ft48J_kKiz

No idea. Did someone dislike it? Not many capitalists here so it’s surprising.

Here’s a canonical example. The East Germans made a drinking glass that didn’t break. They produced 120 million of them. Then, capitalism happened and now we don’t have unbreakable glasses any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfest

I bought a bunch of green energy stocks in 2024.

Yes they get a security guarantee this time, obviously. It’s like arguing with an LLM

They didn’t concede Crimea. They failed to get a security guarantee from NATO or the EU and now that would involve declaring war, so we are instead content to watch hundreds of thousands of them die. You need peace before you can get a security guarantee, and the only way to get peace is through some negotiation. Barring the aforementioned spontaneous collapse of Russia.

These all come off as wishful thinking and reminiscent of 2023 punditry. The Russian economy is fine because it’s a petrostate supported by BRICS. Even if we entertain them the time horizon is totally undefined. So we wait around while another million people die?

I find the comparisons between Putin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany to be profoundly idiotic. If I need to lay out why then there’s no point even trying to argue because there’s a basic lack of understanding that needs to be overcome.

I’m not taking the tankie position but how does Ukraine/Europe/NATO etc. expect to end this war? Do they really think Ukraine will retake the Donbas and Crimea? To me the compromise seems pragmatic and has nothing to do with supporting Russia.

EDIT: Ok just to be clear. There are three positions.

1. Fight Russia and push them out of the Donbas. This would involve committing Western troops and declaring war on a nuclear power.
2. Negotiate and let Putin take some territory. Given the war crimes and fascism shown by Russia, this would be catastrophic for the people who live there, but the daily slaughter would stop.
3. Give enough aid to Ukraine that the fighting continues indefinitely but neither side wins. This is the current situation. Between 1 and 2 million casualties so far.

I’m sorry that none of these are great options but dismissing #2 comes off as incredibly callous and naive.