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Same dude also jumped on the Robert F. Kennedy Jr podcast to push this idea and thinks Ukraine should cede its land to Russia. Source sounds like a mouthpiece for a certain agenda.
Um, wow, okay, Putler is genociding Ukrainians simply because he's evil, and you don't have the heart to donate a couple of dollars to Raytheon? Civilized people with blond hair and blue eyes are being killed, this isn't like those righteous Western holy wars across the Middle East. Have some decency and fill out your ballot for Biden then enlist to fight alongside the Ukrainian armed forces as they wear Slavic runes and type beautiful inspiring poetry about Putin being Voldemort and Ukrainians being Han Solo... unless you want Russian imperialism to spread across all of Europe and then the world? Yeah, didn't think so tankie.
Yes, a peace agenda.
Edit to add: Sachs probably knows more about Russia and Ukraine than every Lemmy user put together. He could give Biden’s own cabinet a run for their money. He was a major figure in the US neoliberal shock therapy of the post-Soviet states, as evidenced by his numerous mentions in the Wikipedia article.
But I digress: this post was about COVID-19.
Bet if I suggested the Palestinians just give up the West Bank for peace I'd get a different reaction from you.
Please just understand a little bit about things before you talk about them.
Is Palestine currently governed by a fascist coup gov like Ukraine's has been since 2014?
"Israel" is a western colony in Palestine. There's no similarity between these two situations.
Israel doesn't want to give Palestinians full and equal rights as Israeli citizens. Ukraine likewise doesn't want to give the people of Donbass full and equal rights as Ukrainian citizens, as evidenced by them banning political parties that were popular there and shelling their cities well before Russia was involved.
What has the Ukrainian government ever done to show that they're interested in governing the Donbass in the interests of the people living there? What has Israel ever done to show that they're interested in governing the West Bank in the interests of the people living there? There is no hypocrisy, you're just not examining the issues beyond a surface level knee jerk reaction.