What are you talking about? The DPR requested Russian military assistance. If the DPR was legitimate and had the right to defend itself, then Russia sending troops in at their request was legitimate.
That has nothing to do with the full scale war. They’re two different conflicts.
I don’t believe countries have an inherent right to defend themselves, and if I did then I would say that the DPR had the same right.
It’s not the Donbas war I’m questioning, there’s a reasoning chain that’s understandable. Both geopolitically, strategically and culturally.
It’s the full scale invasion of 2022 I’m questioning. There’s no chain of thought leading to that invasion, other than greed and lust for blood by Putin and his inner circles. The nationalists were not in power by the time they began their invasion. They had already gained control of the region, Donbas, that wanted to be Russian.
There’s just no way to argue the full scale invasion should ever have started.
Somehow, the extreme anti-war stance of not supporting even “defensive” wars makes me a bloodthirsty warmonger
Your endgame argument is national states shouldn’t exist, but today they do. As long as they do exist, national governments should be able to defend against other nations attempt to gain control over them. Because if we do assume, at one point we get a global government and abolish the national states. Then it’s whoever carries the most power (that’s war machines), that’ll be able to decide the values of such a government. And by extend shape the culture that’ll impact everyone.
So that was a lot of words to say nothing.
Do you think Russia is in a right to invade Ukraine?
It’s the most clear cut conflict in the world at the moment, anyone supporting Putin’s aggression has lost themselves to propaganda. Ukraine unfortunately didn’t get enough support early on, this conflict could had cost half the lives lost to date.
It’s miles apart to be against an aggressive occupational force with no clear goals, and not support a country’s right to defend itself.
The problem is they’re sort of right, because the average person to show up in their nerd stores are also nerds. Just not necessarily ttrpg only nerds, I for one have played a few campaigns over the past 11 years and knows;
DND, pathfinder and Dagger heart. I’m that average person in the nerd store.
The average person on the street however, might have heard a podcast of people playing DnD, but not actually having played it themselves.
DND and Pathfinder however are sluggish machines spending too much time in battles and leaving too little focus for RP