Alexander DommerholtSomeone called me 'pro death of Ukrainian citizens' because I dared to call Clare Daly and Mick Wallace pro-Putin, because they are 'pro peace' according to this person.
I typed a response, but then this person seems to have removed their response to my post, so I can't respond directly to them now. So, I'm going to post my reponse anyway, but now as a new post.
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Calling Daly and Wallace pro-peace is disingenuous. The only way for there to be peace in Ukraine is for Russia to withdraw its forces from the internationally recognised territory of Ukraine. And not for Ukraine to stop fighting and cede territory, as we know what happens already: taking a 3rd of the Donbas region and the whole of Crimea wasn't enough for Russia. Now they want even more, because their war is an expansionist war and nothing else.
To say that Ukraine needs to give up fighting to 'save lives' and for 'peace' means that Russia will take more in the future. They took in 2014, they try to take now and they will try it again. Appeasing an aggressive force by forcing Ukraine to cede 20% of their territory will not work, it never does, Sudetenland being a prime example.
And, most importantly, the Ukrainians know full well what Russia is like. Their bombings of residential buildings, the murdering of civilians and the attempts to eradicate the Ukrainian language and culture from the territories they occupy, not to mention the abduction of Ukrainian children to Russia, tells you all you need to know.
That is why Ukrainians are fighting so hard to liberate the land currently occupied by Russia and that is why they will not relent. They have the right to defend themselves, and that is not being 'pro-war' or 'pro death of themselves'.
I can't imagine Daly and Wallace to apply their way of arguing to Hamas, telling them to stop fighting Israel and just cede the Gaza Strip in order to stop the fighting and the dying, for 'peace'.
If Daly and Wallace are genuinely pro-peace, they'd call on Russia to immediately retreat, as that is when the killing and dying would really stop.
Dwalin