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Whoever spend billions in war instead useful things is the aggressor
Is your point that Russia should be allowed to steam roll through Ukraine? Europe shouldn't help their allies and neighbors defend themselves? Standing up to bullies is worse than being a bully?
Genuinely curious if you even have a point to make at all. I hope I'm just interpreting you wrong.
Nobody should help authoritarian governments and nobody should sell weapons to them. Ukranian people and the ukranian government are two different things, same goes for every country.
Nobody is standing up to shit, russians are chilling in saudi arabia docked next to americans yachts bought with money from the military industry.
Stand up against useless wars and military spending
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-preparedness-the-road-to-universal-slaughter
Meanwhile, read about Ukrainian anarchists building drones and sending supplies for their comrades in army.
They know: if you get Putin's regime deployed on yourself, your chances for peaceful activism tumble down to nothing - you can't even hold a blank sheet of paper.
https://takku.net/article.php/20250106233015550
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-the-european-war-and-the-international-workers-organization
World governments don't care about ukrainians the same way they don't care about children in gaza getting murdered. They don't care about democracy either as they are in bed with saudi arabia and other dictatorships.
Watch out when you ear about "anarchists" fighting along side authoritarian governments because that's something anarchists don't do by definition.
Is this a joke? Sorry so much time living in clown world has made it hard to tell.
I already have him flagged as a troll, so you can just ignore him.
In a world where everyone is brainwashed by state propaganda advocating for peace and military spending cut is considered a joke.
So since adjusting by PPP Russia has spent over a trillion in USD on the war, that makes Russia the aggressor?
You have to spend money on weapons in order to have the privilege of sitting peacefully with those weapons rather than dying on your enemies.
Peace is not achieved by spending trillions in war. Look around yourself what's happening there's no peace.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
This phrase didn't age well in the past 2000 years
It absolutely did.
In all of history peace has only ever been achieved by being strong enough to deter would be conquerors. Without deterrence Russia would crush Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine whilst threatening all of Europe. The US would take Canada, Greenland. NK would take South Korea. China would take Taiwan.
The world has never been free of evil powerful men who would take from their neighbors. What you think looks like peace has only ever been most of the situations being stable based in large part on people's willingness to murder people who would come to murder and take from them. If you aren't actually willing to fight you won't find yourself safe very long.
Military aid between nations creates stability by drastically increasing the cost of attacking one party lest an empire expand by taking one bite at a time and becoming strong enough to threaten larger neighbors in the process.
So, the US and Russia are the aggressors, so, they need to be repelled, right?
Which costs money.