No treaty ever awarded the Kuril Islands to the Soviet Union.

While I wholeheartedly think Ukraine is deserving of additional armies to defend its territorial integrity, and that claims of nuclear annihilation are used more as a Russian fear-mongering tool rather than being realistic in any manner, I certainly think Ukraine can win the war with enough arms, particularly if it increases its targeting of Russian energy infrastructure that funds Russia’s ability to conduct warfare in the first place.

It will indeed be harder without American support, but when the alternative for the Ukrainian people is ethnic cleansing, it’s no surprise that Zelenskyy remains popular three years into the war.

The truth is not propaganda

While I have my opinion and you have yours, Zelensky’s popular support increasing to an even greater majority than before, not decreasing, after his defense of Ukrainian sovereignty during his visit to the White House, is telling of Ukrainian support for the continued defense of their sovereignty from Russian invaders.

when I’m just telling the truth Again, you have your opinion and I have mine, the difference is that like propaganda outlets such as Fox News and Newsmax, you’re pulling far-right, anti-democratic claims out of a hat and giving no reliable proof to show for it.

What exactly do you think Russian control of Ukraine would look like?

Russia has already kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian children, covered up the torturing of murder of Ukrainian civilians, needlessly targeted Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, and claimed that the Ukrainian identity is a fabricated offshoot off being Russian.

With such contempt for the linguistic, cultural, and self-deterministic rights of the Ukrainian people, anyone who for a second believes that Russia would allow for free and fair elections in Ukraine when it already targets political opponents, LGBTQ+ rights, and freedom of speech is either naive or intentionally deceitful.

That just means Ukraine needs more support, not less, and that more Americans should shift their resources from attacking LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and minorities, and instead promote democracy in democratic countries that actively request such assistance, rather than in countries that don’t.

The EU, not the US, is now the leader of the free world, and every day the US becomes more similar to Russia than the EU is a day where millions of people will continue to needlessly suffer just to stuff the pockets of a handful of oligarchs.

Not only are you promoting defeatist propaganda, but you’re also implying that patriotic Ukrainians have violent tendencies, something that’s quite rich when they’re the ones defending their homeland, not trampling stolen territory and kidnapping and murdering innocent civilians.

Promoting “peace in our time” that only leads to another war later, as was the case before World War II, is not an effective solution, and parallels the same fascist mentality encouraging Palestinians to leave Gaza “for their own safety”.

Rather than promoting fascism, the solution is to participate in Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’, even without the participation or support of the US, and increase military aid to Ukraine and tariffs on Russia until it becomes too costly for Russia, both in terms of casualties and energy infrastructure losses.

Nothing less will promote a lasting peace.