The problem with the slogan is that nobody wants war. Russia might choose war *in preference* to losing the ability to use hard power against Ukraine moving forward, but that’s not because Russia intrinsically wants war, but because Russia thinks that war is going to get her goals achieved better than any other route available. If she believed she could get to the same spot without war, she’d do that.
Anyone, pretty regardless of faction, can say “I favor peace”. You can ask the Russian government, the American government, the Ukrainian government, the Estonian government, the French government, the Belarusian government. They will all say — and can say truthfully — that they support peace.
The question is what terms that peace comes on. That’s where the differences are, and why there is a war now.
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> Make love not war
The problem with the slogan is that nobody wants war. Russia might choose war *in preference* to losing the ability to use hard power against Ukraine moving forward, but that’s not because Russia intrinsically wants war, but because Russia thinks that war is going to get her goals achieved better than any other route available. If she believed she could get to the same spot without war, she’d do that.
Anyone, pretty regardless of faction, can say “I favor peace”. You can ask the Russian government, the American government, the Ukrainian government, the Estonian government, the French government, the Belarusian government. They will all say — and can say truthfully — that they support peace.
The question is what terms that peace comes on. That’s where the differences are, and why there is a war now.
And that’s true of pretty much any war.
Louder for the people in the back