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Ukraine are fighting for their survival. You can't put someone's back to the wall and expect them to make the most moral, clear-headed, rational decisions.
What they have right now is Western armaments and funding. What they don't have is an inexhaustible supply of manpower. And their enemy has a much bigger supply of manpower than they do. Developing more and better autonomous weapon systems is the most rational choice in the horrendous situation they've been placed in.
The ultimate moral responsibility here is not with Ukraine. If the world had taken Russia seriously as a threat when they took Crimea, if we had moved to provide serious and meaningful security guarantees to Ukraine and apply meaningful, effective punishments to Russia (like dumping their oil and gas, as we finally, begrudgingly started to do in 2022), none of this would have happened. Instead we threw them to the wolves, and now you're here wagging your finger at them for defending themselves any way they can.
Maybe we can forgive desperate people for being desperate, but it's not an issue of morals, but common sense. Escalating to the use of autonomous weapons invites and demands that Russia and other nations do the same. The moral question will be if those responsible can live with themselves knowing they freely chose to bring this horror into the world.
Russia brought this horror into the world when they chose to invade a nation that was no threat to them. Everything past that point is on their hands.
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Azov batallion.
Lol.
Is this really what passes for a micdrop moment with the pro-authoritarian crowd?
All governments are authoritarian, that's literally the entire point of a government 🙄.
Acting with authority and being authoritarian are not the same, but goes to show how you can actually believe the shit you write
Lol.
I know it's kinda leaning into the meme here, but I genuinely think you need to go read some at least basic political theory before you try and engage with this topic.
That's.. Literally describing every government on the planet at the moment lol.
Cheap bait much? Truly you need to go read some theory.
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