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Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)

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Simon_ORourke ◴[17 Nov 24 07:56 UTC] No.42162689[source]▶
Not putting too fine a point on it, but Gandhi's non-violent resistance worked in the India of his time, because the British wanted both the labor and the natural resources, and killing all the former would simply have cost them.

In Gaza and Ukraine right now, the colonial powers simply want the territory, and are largely indifferent or are openly hostile to the continued physical existence of the people who live there.

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throw310822 ◴[17 Nov 24 08:57 UTC] No.42162919[source]▶
In Gaza and Palestine any peaceful resistance is surely useless, as there is a complete ethnic divide between the colonizers and the colonized and there is no place for the colonized in the future plans for the land. Any non-violent resistance will be met with enough violence to drive the people away (and to create a justification for driving the people away).

In Ukraine, since the point is controlling the land and not replacing the original population, non-violent resistance would not have stopped Russia but would have saved the Ukrainians most if not all the suffering and bloodshed.

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1. 7bit ◴[17 Nov 24 09:56 UTC] No.42163156[source]▶
It would not have saved them in any way. Putin would have thrown all Ukrainians in Gulags just as he does with critics of his own Nationality. He would have forced the people out of Ukraine to replace them with Russian Nationalists to establish the region as pro Russian and enforce stability. It would have been a similar situation for Ukrainians as it is today for the People in Gaza and Westbank.