Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "give me liberty or give me death" -- Ukraine Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 13:55:29 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <9tr5O.2752$1tf.1358@fx38.iad> <4VE5O.25834$4v08.18901@fx09.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 15:55:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e277b9cb7c286d186849e5f08f72231a"; logging-data="2379222"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19yA4k2RXWK49SMTTcYmFYU" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kISz9RBUWgvffhNwk+fOjlshRTg= Bytes: 3860 On 2024-05-31, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > On 2024-05-30 11:19 p.m., RonB wrote: >> On 2024-05-30, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >>> On 2024-05-30 7:13 a.m., RonB wrote: >>>> On 2024-05-29, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >>>>> On 2024-05-29 12:17 p.m., Relf wrote: >>>>>> "give me liberty or give me death" -- Ukraine >>>>> >>>>> It looks like Russia has chosen to give them the latter. >>>> >>>> I guess the Ukrainians wanted "liberty" to kill their Russian speaking >>>> countrymen more than they wanted peace. Just a lot of wannabe neo-Nazi >>>> thugs. It's too bad, though, that the non-Nazi Ukrainians are caught in the >>>> middle of this, losing their lives for a drug-addicted "comedian" and his >>>> cadre of boot-lickers. >>> >>> I've heard that Poland now wants a chunk of Ukraine, as it was >>> traditionally Polish territory. It actually pains me to imagine this to >>> be a fact. >> >> And then they can give back to Germany the part given to them by the Soviets >> after World War II. (Not likely to happen.) >> >> I don't think Russia would object to Poland taking what was traditionally >> theirs. This is not the Russian-speaking part of Ukraine. I'm also guessing >> that Romania and Hungary (or Slovakia?) would be able to get back their >> traditional territories taken from them by the Soviet government and given >> to Ukraine. > > If I were in a position of any kind of authority in Poland, I would > actually negotiate with Russia in an effort to gain that territory, > inexpensive oil and free trade in exchange for turning a blind eye to > what they're doing in Ukraine or even helping them out. I wouldn't mind > severing ties with the Americans because the US has no bargaining chip > of any worth to my country. American values are contrary to Polish ones, > they clearly have no respect for democracy, their education system is > ineffective and prefers to propagandize rather than educate, and they > built military bases on my territory. At the very least, Russians share > a culture and genes with my people. I can work with that. Unfortunately there is a long history of mistrust between these two countries. But Putin has already hinted that he wouldn't object to the Poles taking back their traditional chunk of Ukraine. -- [Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." "It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine