Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said his country won’t accept peacekeeping forces from Nato countries in Ukraine under any peace deal, following high-level talks with the US in Saudi Arabia.

“Any appearance by armed forces under some other flag does not change anything. It is of course completely unacceptable,” he said. Russia and the US said they had agreed to appoint teams to start negotiating the end of the war.

“Today is the first step of a long and difficult journey, but an important one”, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said following the meeting.

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    This is like sovereign citizens saying they don’t consent to being arrested. Did anybody hear us asking for permission?

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    Ukraine isn’t their fucking country so go get fucked, if they wanna have friends over to help scare the goons away of course they can it’s their fucking country.

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    What… Uhhh… What are they going to do about it? Bomb London and eat nukes?

    I know it’s escalatory but sometimes you have to accept a little escalation to show you’re willing. Just like a certain “Axis” in history they’re pushing because they think everyone is too afraid of an actual war. And appeasement directly led to their war because the other powers waited until it was so far gone it could only be war.

    But escalating a little to egg their face now, (not bloody it), it punctures that belief.

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    Lavrov was the first foreign emissary to visit Trump in the Oval Office the first time they stole the election. At that time, our demented rapist revealed classified intelligence that burned some Israeli spies and everyone learned very quickly not to tell the gibbering fuckface anything if you wanted it to stay secret.

    Since they sent Little Marco, I didn’t think they were serious anyway but now it seems ridiculously obvious.

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        if they were to use those for any reason, it would be horrible suicide for them. They could destroy the society as we know it with them but they couldnt stop the retaliation which would be so vengeance fueled I dont want to even think about it.

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          There was a “nato honest reaction” meme that showed nuclear strikes on every city in Russia with some heavy house music over it.

          I’ll see if I can dig it up.

          Found the animation the meme used but not the meme itself. Ah well.

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    Too bad dickhead, Ukraine doesn’t accept Russian troops in Ukraine but here we are.

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        Why are all of your replies indistinguishable from a bored algorithm trying to pass the Turing test? If you’re fishing for originality, maybe try harder than regurgitating the same tired insult.

        Engage with the substance or don’t bother. Otherwise, you’re just proving my point about the digital colosseum—hot takes, zero depth

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            Ah, the irony of accusing others of lacking substance while offering a response that could be mistaken for a placeholder text generator. If you’re going to critique, at least muster the effort to rise above the intellectual equivalent of a shrug.

            Substance isn’t flashy words; it’s depth of thought, something your reply seems allergic to. Engage or don’t, but spare us the performative dismissal—it’s tedious.

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              I think I’ve upvoted when I’ve found your comments to be on point regardless of the style choices. Hostility destroys the substance you’re trying to convey. Better to disregard the blame from those who get stuck with the format, provoking back never works.

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          Why are all of your replies indistinguishable from a bored algorithm

          Why do you keep projecting onto others the thing that people keep saying about you: that you write like a bot?

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      I’m sure all the families of the people in Ukraine who have died will be relieved to know that at least they didn’t die in the real war.

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      I have trouble making sense of your proposed world view. Your (well) organized comment gestures wildly at a bigger picture, implying there is something that one cannot observe by merely reading news. On its own that would be a straightforward idea, but you continue and claim that there is/are something/s governing the governments?
      I request, please, more information.

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        Their comments are not well organized. Look at their comment history; they write like a bot trained to generate pseudo-profound bullshit.