Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for troops to freeze sperm

Re:Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for t... by somenameforme on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:01AM (#47043872)

They didn't cede anything there. They continued to claim that Crimea was theirs, with support from the US. Less than a year before Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukraine was openly speaking of all options to retake Crimea which would obviously entail war with Russia. [1] All the while they were actively seeking to join NATO, and Biden was certainly implying it would happen soon.

This certainly contributed to Russia's decision to invade, as they likely saw the future as being a war on their terms, or a war on NATO's terms. And the narrative about aggressor would have likely played out similarly even if Ukraine/Biden had moved to invade Crimea, precisely because nothing was ever conceded.

[1] - https://www.unian.info/politics/russian-aggression-ukraine-a...

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Re:Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for t... by weregiraffe on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:43AM (#47044113)

Russia delenda est.

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Re:Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for t... by nandomrumber on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:15AM (#47044604)

Translates to Russia must be destroyed.

Lovely.

Israel, Russia… anyone else you want to see burn because you don’t like their current political leaders?

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Re:Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for t... by rngfnby on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:25PM (#47055418)

Let's try it.

Frankly, after the Epstein files, I welcome some fire and brimstone to clean things up a bit. (Of course, you probably think Epstein was a Russian agent)

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Re:Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for t... by artem2471 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:09AM (#47044575)

So Biden was “implying” something, and that was the reason for the war.

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Re:Facing a demographic catastrophe, Ukraine is paying for t... by netsharc on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:38AM (#47045884)

"I stole your car, you need to cease all your attempts of taking it back, that is aggression/violence against me!".

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