Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: Russian forces 'completely destroyed' the Donbas | DW News" video.

  1. ok clown. though I do personally blame many civilians who are still in donbass. I can somewhat understand the adults, but those who are still there with children have almost all made very bad choices. the time to start packing and planning in all of donbass was the night when putin declared the recognition of the DPR and LPR within the borders of luhansk and donetsk oblasts, and the deployment of russian troops into those territories. that was a declaration of war in the borders of donbass. now besides just any point during the fighting since, there was a particular point in time when everybody responsible for children should have gotten them out of ukrainian-controlled donbass, and that was the period of decreased fighting when russia was retreating from kyiv, at which point the ukrainian government told ALL civilians in donbass, not just those with children, to evacuate. very few people may have really not had a chance to evacuate, but at this point, almost everybody who has children south-east of kharkiv, dnipro and zaporizhzhia is being actively irresponsible. there are good enough accommodations for children in western ukraine and the EU to make it very clear that evacuating is the right choice.
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  2. that's not true. ukraine's agricultural capacity is mostly intact if the war ends now with the territories held as they are. ukraine's industrial capacity has mostly been taken by russia, but ukraine was actually making relatively little use of its great mineral wealth to begin with, and a lot of new industry could be built in the territory ukraine still holds. of course the rebuilding will be extremely expensive, but ukraine absolutely still has big economic potential. ukraine should have developed into one of the richest of the formerly soviet and soviet-aligned states if it hadn't been robbed so much by its own oligarchs and russia's. ukraine was set to develop at least as positively as poland.
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  3. cool story, olaf.
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