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How do you make someone understand that being drafted by force and ordered to invade another country is not a good thing? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more fruitful to look at who benefits from the Ukrainian war.

Life for the average Ukrainian will not be radically different under Russian rule. Most of them will get up, go to work the same job they always have and funnel as much money as possible to those who already have it.

It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers. The people actually fighting the wars never benefit and the ones who benefit never fight.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty obvious that the only country that benefits from the war is the US. Don't take my word for it though, RAND wrote a whole study explaining how in detail https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html

It's also absolutely phenomenal that people think Russia needs Ukraine to make profit when it's already the largest country in the world with plenty of undeveloped resources. If you think countries benefit from having to fight a war, then you might wan to learn a bit of history.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

I actually showed that article about a year ago to a co-worker of mine. LMAO