The only way this can turn around for Ukraine is a the war expanding into a (more) direct conflict between Russia and NATO, which would create a high risk of a nuclear exchange, which is unacceptable.

Ukraine lost. The only question now is how many more of their people they'll send to pointlessly die before they start serious negotiations (i.e., not wild demands like getting Crimea). This is the months leading up to the end of WWI.

That’s just stupid. Are they really suggesting Ukraine should focus solely on grinding through fortified Russian defenses?

That's clearly a losing strategy, too, but the "we'll fight them to the last Ukranian" crowd is still too far from reality to admit it.

The best decision for the Ukranian people is to negotiate an end to the war as soon as possible, which means accepting that when you are losing a war the peace isn't going to involve crazy shit like getting more territory than you started with (Crimea). They've lost, and they can come to terms with it now or do so later after a bunch more Ukranians die only get a worse outcome.

The reason the Ukranian government isn't doing that is because their NATO puppetmasters don't give a shit about the casualties of their proxies -- they just want to bleed Russia as much as possible. So without the option to negotiate, and with the impossibility of winning on the main front, they have to try Hail Mary gambits like the Kursk invasion.

"The winning side could simply surrender and give everything back"

I am a geopolitical mastermind

the family of the hostages can kill whoever they want

Yes, Israel has been doing this since October. Yes, their morals are sickening.

That's not a serious negotiating position when Russia is winning. Shit like this is getting people killed.

That would kill millions at minimum and likely result in nuclear war. It's utterly psychopathic to cheerlead this and totally detached from the horrors you're wishcasting. Disgusting.

This is so gutless. "Well sure I'd prefer unicorns and rainbows but KILL KILL KILL"... just say what you really mean and stand by it.

This seems futile, but it's a decent point to hammer on. Libs who believe international law means something get put in the uncomfortable position of rethinking that, it's more grounded than "I disagree with this as a matter of policy," and you'll smoke out plenty of people who will show their asses with "that shit doesn't apply to us" takes.

A kinder version of a company town is still a company town, in the same way high-paying wage labor is still wage labor.

This is not Google being charitable and caring about housing prices in the surrounding area. These are the people most able to work remotely; Google is bringing them back to their expensive office to justify its existence and saying "this time I'll be your landlord, too."

Tells their users to follow the rules = it's a ruse, they're trolls

Tells their users to troll = see, they're trolls!

Says nothing = they aren't even trying to stop their users from trolling

This is what we call an unfalsifiable orthodoxy.

Can't imagine why someone wouldn't want to have a DM conversation with a person who thinks they're worse than a flat earther

"Are you now or have you ever been a member of hexbear.net, or a fellow traveler?"