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 NATO is to blame for endless war, this could have been avoided in ’22 but NATO stopped peace talks 
 It could've been avoided in 2014, if it wasn't for the US backed coup.
Yet another US made conflict. 🙄 
 Yup 
 Also The West want Ukraine for themselves, BlackRock, Microsoft are all piling in. Zelensky has changed laws to allow foreign companies to buy up Ukrainian land. Lindsey Graham said the quiet part out loud ‘ Ukraine sits on a trillion dollars worth of minerals that will be good for our economy’
So much for defending Ukraine for Ukrainians. BS 
 Russia's demands for "peace" were that Ukraine would nearly eliminate its military, and they wanted veto power on anyone else helping defend Ukraine. Even from Russia themselves.

Obviously, Russia was just trying to make Ukraine defenseless for yet another invasion.

Ukraine already tried negotiating peace with Russia multiple times; Russia has broken those agreements each time. Peace agreements with Russia are worthless. 
 They were agreeing terms and were ready to sign in’22 
 LoL, no, they certainly were not. 
 The Minsk peace accords were on the verge of being signed. The West put a stop to it 
 The Minsk peace accords were signed in 2014 and 2015. As Zelensky himself said, there would be no further Minis peace accords because they're obviously a trap: Russia has been happy to break them before and agreeing to "neutrality" and limits on arms would make Ukraine defenseless. 
 Peter, i wish you well and hope you stay safe. Our opinions differ. 🤙 
 Meant to click salute. Not laughing emoji. 
 They sent war monger Boris Johnson to be precise. 
 They did 
 Ukrainian war, objective facts.

- Russia has invaded Ukrainian territory.
- Ukraine has massacred Russians on Ukrainian territory for years (Dombas).
- NATO has reneged on its promises of non-expansion.
- The U.S. has used Ukraine to confront Russia and Europe, taking two pieces off the board, leaving it with China.
- The US through intelligence agencies has done everything possible to make the war break out, starting with the Maidan protests.
- Ukraine and the allies are using the same strategy that Britain used against Germany, rejecting all peace agreements and provoking an escalation of the war.

So the sad reality is that Ukraine is being used by the military-industrial complex and as a linchpin for the preservation of the status quo of the U.S. empire.

That Russia is the one who has invaded? Yes, but neither can we ignore the quite logical reasons to understand the conflict, and understand that there have been two parties interested in the war, we must also be clear that both Russia and China want to see the hegemony of the Yankee empire fall.

As with WWII, there can only be one left, Ukraine and its allies or Russia.

As an ordinary man there is little you can do, if you promote more violence in an initial state of war like the current one, that violence will end up in the opposite direction, against you, because it will escalate more and more on both sides until the annihilation of one of the two.

Really if you find yourself in a territory of war the only thing you can do is to leave, it is sad but it is so, do not enter into that game, material things are restored, life is not.