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Originally Posted by jfman
What kind of peace do you get in a perpetual state of war?
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The reality is, Ukraine has been in a perpetual state of war since Russia invaded the Donbas and then Crimea in 2014. It has simply got rather hotter since 2022.
As for what you get, well where Russia is concerned, it seems what you get is not having your wives and daughters raped and killed the next time Russia conjures up a pretext to have another go. They have form for this. You have to be wilfully blind not to see it.
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Or worse, if you’re a dead Ukrainian conscript?
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I can claim no firsthand understanding of how soldiers rationalise the risk they take, though I note whenever WW2 commemorations come around the survivors frequently talk of fighting not so much for the country but for the man next to you.