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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

Would have worked just as well without panels 2 & 3 and not require mutilating the format

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago

In 2014, the CIA supported a coup that removed the democratically elected president of Ukraine. Then Outlawed Socialist Parties. Just like the 20 year war in Afghanistan, which was utterly pointless and only to funnel money up to the top intelligence organizations and bleed public funds waqs a mechanism of imperialism. Also, mass immigration has a lot to do with climate change and endless imperialistic war. the United States wages War and uses proxies to weaken the global working class at the same time gaining more territory and resources. Pro-war liberals are disgusting because they live in a vacuum a storybook version of global affairs. Putin can suck on this D... But it doesn't mean I am a friend of a Yankee. It's funny, because if you've ever been to Europe, you know that America doesn't have a left wing. In the United States, we just have neoliberalism or right wing fascist reactionaries. The United States is an imperialist empire and fascist are sometimes liberals. Fascist.are the useful idiots of empire. The Ukrainian people are suffering because they are just a piece of meat in a bigger game. Liberals didn't even know about ukraine existed before all of this. And I remember during the Iraq Afghan war, you all wanted to save the women, the poor women. Liberals have always been the number one fascist elements in the United States. Russia won World War II, not you Yankee. It doesn't matter which tribalistic version of a amerihog ideology that you subscribe to it is still just fascist reactionary ideology. And all of this information that I shared in my own way is easily accessible. I really think Americans are just stupid lazy assholes. Also, the culture wars, like, do you like gays? Do you not like gays? Should they have rights? Should they not have rights? Are low-level issues relative to the financial issues that most Americans deal with. But if people are angry, well, it's like mountains of shame looking for someone to blame. Snobby, loudmouth, ignorant liberals, telling poor people how to think is how we got to Trump. And because most young men are incredibly poor, this is why the kids are alt right." Phil Ochs. Love me. Love me. I'm a liberal. " You have no class solidarity and you're hyper-individualistic easily Co-opted.. That's why your society is falling apart. Well that and free market capitalism.

[–] _bac@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

well, to be fair... remember the Cuban missile crisis?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Why does Russia, the largest country, not simply join NATO?

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

They don't have to. They just interfere in our politics

[–] bobthened@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

They've tried on more than occasion, but been rejected.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It was considered at one point in the 90s.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Before both sides walked away.

Russia will never abandon its imperialist ideology without a Nuremberg style purge

And NATO. in sight of that imperialist ambition. Wanted nothing to do with Russia. There was also the matter of Russia being a mobster state.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

Really was a consideration all the way up until mid 00's. After 9/11 Russia warmed to NATO when they expanded the "war on terror" and even became a part of a permanent joint council.

Relations soured when Russia started dicking around in Ukraine and Georgia again in 04 and 08. Russia's version of soft power is basically empowering local oligarchs by giving them cushy oil/mineral deals and have them get involved in their respective countries politics. A big part of the orange revolution was kicking out the pro Kremlin oligarchs.

Russia's transition from soft to hard power has always been funding and supporting "separatist groups" like they did in Georgia and Ukraine. It's always the same fucking playbook.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

Boris Yeltsin sure did drink a lot, eh?

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