I just listen to Zelensky, Biden, the little autistic climate girl, and Obama and any other Black(isn’t this correct now?) person that doesn’t question anything.
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Obama ain’t Black. He’s an American with Kenyan and Anglo roots.
You don’t think he voted for Biden?
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Listen to Putin’s speeches, or read the transcripts. USSR + Warsaw Pact territory are a minimum starting point (Putin’s request before the invasion), then EU, an alliance with China (and US isolationists aka MAGA) to destroy the dollar as an international reserve currency and in pretty hazy future plans Alaska and WA, OR and North CA up to Fort Ross, aka “ancestral Russian lands”
Sure, it sounds laughable now, as the corruption and incompetence of the Russian armed forces and society in general have been exposed to the wider world, but before Feb '22 they were seriously contemplating such deranged delusions, and even told a flabbergasted CIA director Burns that they have “military parity” with the US. And had they ran over Ukraine in a matter of days, their unhinged delusions would have gone off the charts.
He demonstrated remarkable personal courage and impressive sang froid in the circumstances. That speaks volumes.
Nope. He said if Ukraine loses, the Russians will attack Poland, NATO Article 5 will be triggered and then US will have to send its soldiers. In other words, give us weapons so that we (Ukrainians) can do the dying and not you at a later date.
@ins paraphrased it harshly, but the point is not ethnicity or nationality, it’s that their tsarist system is basically a copy of the Golden Horde khanate, their Mongol overlords for three centuries. Hence the father (tsar) and loyal serfs who follow his commands without question.
You’ve got it wrong. Again, ethnicity or race doesn’t matter, what matters is they are serfs to an absolute monarch. They have no agency - if the tsar tells them to kill you, they will you. If he tells them to fraternize with you, they will. That’s why they went from “Ukrainians are basically Russians, our fraternal people”, to “we have to exterminate the disease that is the Ukrainian people” in a matter of months. Whatever the tsar decides is followed through without question.
You cannot trust people who have no personal agency and follow the whims of delusions of one man (or one man and his inner circle)
And intentionally misleading. Reznikov wasn’t personally implicated in the scandal, a guy two levels under him was (overpaying for army meals), who was arrested. Reznikov offered a resignation on moral grounds, after a lengthy and agonizing discussion it was decided to keep him due to his rapport with Western officials.
And in my personal experience, the Ukrainians are almost pathologically obsessing over every cent and piece of equipment that is sent from the West knowing that any lapse/grift will be weaponized by the Russians and MAGAs
Yes, that’s why the Ukrainians organized a revolution - they didn’t want to stay a corrupt pro-Russian dependency and spend their lives making groveling video appeals to the tsar.
So it’s either liberty or death. Now where have I heard that before?
The world doesn’t revolve around American culture wars.
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So did anyone here googled or watched the work of Christo Grozev. The guy is a real genius in investigative journalism. At least watch Navalny to get a grip on the propaganda level and incompetence of Putin, Kremlin and FSB and how Grozev outplays them all in the spy games.
Hristo Gozev is an amazing - and incredibly brave - journalist, I just think he’s wrong about Navalny.
Mislja che ti kato blgarin razbirash ruski
Granted, this is from 2008 but holy crap that is some very racist stuff from the man himself.
Many of us are afraid that Navalny would continue the Russian Empire project, only more competently.
Again, Alanis Morissette is very jealous of these levels of irony.
I want to look into this.
Yes. Looking back at my post, I didn’t word it properly. I took the translation as you put it: supply us with weapons because if you don’t, your people will have to fight. And that would be something that I am skeptical about.
Oh yes, I don’t deny they have a different way of looking at the world based on this history that I have some vague knowledge about. It’s just, as you said, he framed it harshly, with ethnicity mentioned. However, if a people outside of where I live have a caliphate, monarchy, or whatever, that’s their business. Though not a MAGA man, I’m an isolationist.
I want to look into this other info you’ve provided. I know we don’t see eye to eye on some things but I appreciate the info and directions for other reading you’ve provided. There are conflicting takes out there.
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Imagine the nerve of Biden to tell someone else his race is dependent on whether he votes for him: “If you don’t vote for me, you’re not black.” That’s one of the most condescending statements I’ve ever heard.
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It would be outrageous to even think that. Take over Europe, and then the freaking world?! I was suggested a starting point though. So when I get a chance I’ll look into it.
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Russia as of this teritory needs to be an empire in order to survive. They have very harsh climate and bad geographic location. The problem with Putin expansion is he wants war. What Navalny can do is expand via trade, connections and access to logistics via good business practices. I have nothing against a civilized and ethical Russia expanding economically. I have no problems with Lukoil selling us Urals petrol at 34 USD per barel instead of 70 USD matching the rate of Brent, via corruption. We call it The Russia Tax where I come from.
If Russia changes and expands in a smart and ethical way, good for them. I believe this is what Grozev hopes for in Navalny. Of course we can be wrong. Navalny has been a part of Nazi groups as a young man, but we have all been there far in the deep as young man. Young men are filled with passion and often drift in bad way.
Listen good man. I am a fan of Donald Trump and I liked the man. He shaked up US politics in a very decent way. He did put America first and spoke some truths to NATO members.
Biden as bad as he is, and as guilty as he is for this war by lifting Nord Stream 2 sanctions. His responce to this war has been very good. UK and US have acted as guardians to Europe until we were able to figure things out. In fact thanks to US we were able to secure LNG and escape natural gas crisis. My gas bills have been 4 times lower this winter and that is thanks to US, local PM and EU.
I am very sad to hear Trump loyalists are going insane and are pro Russia in this conflict, using Kremlin propaganda. I am politely asking, dont be stupid. US is the big winner worldwide in this war. They are making new trade deals, showing the world that they can be counted on when needed, both with military support and trade deals. The whole fucking world is thankful to US at the moment. Dont be thr stupid side in this conflict.
Not my knowledge but that wasn’t was I was saying in any case.
My point is that if he indeed has plans to reestablish Russia’s former glory, which some experts have pointed towards then Ukraine isn’t his end goal. As such we can expect to see further aggression in the future towards other European countries if indeed that is his goal. If Putin can attack a sovereign nation in an attempt to annex the entire country and purge it from it’s “Nazi” leaders, without any international intervention then we can’t expect any other response the next time he does so and that could theoretically mean world domination. Again I’m not saying that’s his plan. I don’t believe that to be case - But my point is that if nobody stops him then in theory he could just keep going. Maybe he does stop after Ukraine. Maybe he decides to invade just one more country and then stop. Or maybe 2 more. It doesnt matter if it’s one country or world domination imo. He needs to be stopped and he and everyone else in this world needs to see that this kind of behavior isnt acceptable and that as a world we wont accept this.
I don’t like bullies and Putin is most definitely a big bully. Bullies keep bullying until they get stopped.
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Care to explain why you think that ? I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on it!
I’m not one to be some bullshit compulsive contrarian. Compulsive contrarianism makes me sick, actually. So without out of the way, I’m saying that what you’re giving is speculation of others. The rest of the world, including the US, has done nothing in many incidents of mistreatment, including what goes on as I type this. It is not feasible to constantly intervene and I don’t think it should be done in all cases. In some cases it actually makes matters worse.
Many Americans look upon much of the world’s inhabitants as dirt people, and I wouldn’t doubt that some, before this war came to mind, looked upon Slavs and Balts as dirt people from “shitholes” because they aren’t as economically prosperous (that’s actually a modern American outlook: if you’re not basking in consumerism and hedonism, you’re a shitholer). One is also a shitholer if he lives in “flyover country”. Even on here one poster’s country was referred to as a shithole. Although I was too young to understand the world at the time, I suspect Americans didn’t mind NATO bombing Serbia, because of yet another incident of neighbors not getting along, making me skeptical about all of this.
Here is link to a post I made last year in this thread. Should I think what’s bolded is unreasonable?
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Here’s what I bolded.
I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border.
It is a fact that over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns. Its military machine is moving and, as I said, is approaching our very border.”
Keep in mind, I’m not a Putin fan, nor would I think it is right to Russify Ukraine. I actually have read online and even an acquaintance once told me, “Ukraine is a fake country.” Now that is seriously disrespectful. These are typically the types who think Putin should be sainted.
You’re saying that the U.S. needs to prepare for all-out war with Russia, in defense of Ukraine/a place that was formerly(recently) part of the same country. And that the threat of nuclear war should not deter the U.S. from doing so. If any explanation is needed, you’re not capable of understanding any explanation anyway.
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Well if you don’t get the underlying long term threat of the opposite, then youre not capable of understanding any explanation as to why they should.
Youre not acustumed to people disagreeing with you ? What’s with the ad hominem undertone ?
NATO has been on the Soviet (Russian) border since 1949, in Norway. Eastern European countries that joined NATO in the 1990ies literally begged for NATO membership. Two were turned down - Georgia and Ukraine and both were invaded by Russia.
If anything, pre-invasion NATO resources in Eastern Europe were laughable to non-existent for the last 25 years. Germany basically demilitarized, The UK removed their troops from Germany by mid nineties and Eastern Europeans rotated most of their combat effectives through Iraq and/or Afghanistan as part of a US-invoked Article 5 engagement in early 00s (my brother did a number of tours in Afghanistan). Even Georgia and Ukraine sent a contingent respectively to Iraq. The US focused on the Ramstein base as a stopover for the ME and Afghanistan.
Only after 2014 and the invasion did the US send a whopping two hundred troops on a temporary exercise to Estonia.
Putin’s “security concerns” meant that the US and Europe should simply give Russia - an economic midget in international terms - a number of countries containing 120+ million people to Russia who are on average 2x - 4x times richer the Russia so that the Russia can reconstitute their Empire without effort and literally plunder them into oblivion.
It would be akin to North Korea asking for Japan, South Korea as Taiwan to address their “security concerns”.
And if you look at Putin’s one year invasion speech, NATO wasn’t even mentioned at all. It was all “ancestral Russia” and an attempt to ingratiate himself with MAGAs.
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Sullying a great post with an injection of TDS…