Why support USkraine rather than Russia?
Really interesting stats from Ukraine's Unmanned System Forces (aka drones).
The big one: the marginal cost to kill or seriously injure a Russian with drones is just $911 USD.
https://nostr.download/1cbe7c1ab49ff8d539b3b3f54a3269da359d30e2901659408a03e5bf4929ba1a.mp4
I've personally spoken to quite a few soldiers at different units (units have fundraising and recruiting booths at basically every big event in Ukraine), and they all say the same thing: a remarkably high percentage of their drone funding comes from private donations. A big problem is Western military aid tends to be tied to specific weapons systems – not money – so the overall resources can't be spent optimally.
Of course, it's not like the war itself costs $911/Russian casualty – there's lots of other costs and investment necessary to get there. But the fact that units are still short on drones even though relatively little investment would fix this is absurd.
Also, I don't keep track. But I wouldn't be surprised if just my personal donations – anonymously with Bitcoin – have resulted in the deaths of a few Russians. You can easily make a difference.
Discussion
The reason is the same as why it is more profitable to support a neighbor who is fighting off robbers, rather than robbers who are planning to come to you later.
I think that robbers in USrain are problem and their friends in Europe are problem. Neighbours are welcomed to sort problems.
Russia is a robber it invaded Ukraine in 2014 killing people and annexed Crimea. No neighbour supported Ukraine, then Russia move full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 killing thousands of cillvilian Ukrainians, stealing children and wiping cities off.
Sorry if you're not aware about it. Make your own research.
You also misspelled Ukraine
Umm, I wouldn't use the leftist millennial dictionary to spell USraine!
Because I don't want my family pictures to look like yours:
No you don't understand, they are supporting the death of one Russian, which will make Russia double down and kill two Ukrainians. This is why I don't support war.
It’s not entirely clear here whether we’re talking about ethnic Russians or citizens of Russia. In English, both are referred to simply as “Russians” but in Russian there’s a distinction — and in reality, there are very few actual ethnic Russians, while among the latter group (citizens), there are more Ukrainians than ethnic Russians.
The very first Russian to die in the conflict in Ukraine was, ironically, a Ukrainian.
When I see all those people dragged from their families to war, that's a real tragedy. Seeing some1 you love being dragged to meat grinder must be awful.
Russians are the ones dragging people into war: nostr:nevent1qqswa5hpdydy9jpe6lc7hzc7dx9gkn7xzvreqyn9cqcmdq5aku8pzpcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygxv4fvwxlyeepdute65q298rz75vjz7t57txdzkj8k2hq782h2gespsgqqqqqqsvm367d
The 31 people killed in they apartment building didn't want war. Russians decided to bomb them anyway.
You know I was talking about draft?
The draft exists because society needs defense against evil. It's just a more serious version of paying taxes.
Russia brought war to Ukraine. Ukraine needs to defend themselves.
There's a reason why the draft has a _long_ history in the US, and indeed, most counties.
"Russia evil, brought war to kind Ukraine."? Wow, when put into those simplistic terms, I understand your justification.
Yes. It exist so people are forced to fight for their "elites" I dont give a fuck what language you speak as long as you want to take my stuff. From my perspective taxes are lower on russia than in poland and russian "elites" didnt do anything to me.
You don't live in Ukraine. Russia hasn't tried to take your stuff, yet.
Russia is spending about half of the entire government budget on war. They're already all in.
...and obviously, if that Russian isn't killed first, he's going to kill Ukrainian soldiers that are keeping me safe. Doing nothing is as stupid as trying to negotiate with rapists.
The faster and more effectively we can kill off Russians the sooner they're going to give up, and the sooner Ukrainians forced out of their homes are going to be able to return.