• illi@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Russia has tendencies to invade and then strongarm the invaded country to retroactively invite them.

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    I was carious and check death tool to put it in perspective.

    From 2014 to 2021 there were estimated 14200 Ukranian death. 3404 of which were civilians.

    Since October the estimation is about 13000 Palestinians (the majority of whom were women and children under the age of 14)

    These are united nations numbers.

    Disgusting…

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      The Donbass portion of the Russo-Ukrainian war had a fewer belligerents, a lot lower population density, and was fought between conventional combatants. It was also over 6 years.

      The Israel-Hamas war has more belligerents, over 50x population density, is fought between a conventional army and an insurgency who has specifically said that safety of the population isn’t their problem, and is being run a lot faster than 6 years. Reported death rates have already slowed down a lot.

      Also according to the UN: https://press.un.org/en/2022/sc14904.doc.htm 90% of war time casualties are civilians. The estimated 13k civilians killed in Gaza are weighed against an estimated 7k Hamas killed. That gives about a 2:1 ratio, much better than the global average.

      War is always disgusting.

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    The Cyprus conflict had been more fitting here. Belarus has been playing with fire all along. If they get burned it will be their own fault

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    Isn’t there an interview with Lukashenko where he talks about how proud he would be if Putin makes him a general of the Soviet Union?

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    Belarus wants to work with Russia and be allied with them because they believe it will improve their standard of living. Belarus’s president wouldn’t invite Russia into their country otherwise.

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    What a dumb fucking meme. When u border Russia u have no choice but to be in good working relations with them.
    Cuz u get pretty much oil and gas way below market rate and Belarus economy is tied to Russian market pretty much 50% percents. With that high of a dependency you dont wanna fuck with your neighbor.
    Now do the meme with NATO countries why dont u