head of the international committee in the Federation Council,

Wow, a fascist lying? Colour me surprised! Surely Russia kidnapped 700k children from a frontline.

Seriously, it’s going to be extremely embarrassing in 3 years time when the truth is revealed.

What are you even on about? Russia confirmed they took the kids

What amount of kids are you talking about? I specifically mentioned that this happened occasionally with few children left behind in the frontlines. I also discussed the 16k number thrown around by the Ukrainian government not being backed by any evidence or independent research, and most likely being a propaganda stunt.

I don’t have an interest in Russia winning, I’m sad for Ukrainian people and for the existence of the war, I’m just asking you to remember the people on the left of the political spectrum that have been asking for negotiations for the past 3 years, and who’ve been labeled as “pro-russian” for asking for negotiations as early as possible. The war will end with negotiations, the negotiations will most likely end up being unfortunate for Ukrainian interests and beneficial to the Russian government, and the 3 years of meat grinder could have been avoided if negotiations had happened from the start.

Just the kidnapping of Ukrainian children alone makes it genocidal

Ah yes, the “kidnapping of 16.000 Ukrainian children” that the United Nations report couldn’t verify and whose only source is the Ukrainian government, which is famously at war with the country it’s accusing. There were some instances of kids in the frontline towns being found by the Russian military and in some cases being sent to Russia, but it’s not a generalised thing mainly because, well, there are usually no fucking children in a frontline.

And the immediate ceasefire offer was not on any conditions of territorial exchange, just that they would stop shooting while negotiating. Russia categorically denied any stop to the war this year

Now that Russia is regaining Kursk at a fast pace, how would you expect Russia to want a ceasefire? “Hold up, we’re losing fast, let’s just stop the shooting altogether?”

Also, why would you say they are losing?

Because the Russian troops have been consistently advancing for the past two years, and in the past week most of Kursk including the city of Sudzha has been retaken by Russia. Just don’t be surprised when the war ends by means of negotiation and the terms are bad to Ukraine.

It’s an unfair war inflicted on the Ukrainian population, but calling it genocidal is crazy. Look at the civilian casualty rate in Ukraine, and compare it with another non-genocidal war like that of the invasion of Iraq.

They just signaled that they are open to an immediate ceasefire, but the Russians denied the offer.

They’re open to an immediate ceasefire on their own conditions, which isn’t something you can expect when you’re, you know, losing a war.

Negotiating?

I didn’t realise that human rights violations were justification for invasion and conquest

Dumbest take ever. The British and the Americans were right to send troops to France under Nazi rule because it was a mission to liberate French people. The USSR was right to send troops to Czechoslovakia to liberate people from Nazi rule. China was right to send troops to Tibet to free the people from their brutal feudalistic rule.

I fucking wish that my homeland (Spain) had been “invaded” by English and French troops to fight fascism in the 30s rather than ending up with a homegrown fascist dictatorship.

The man has worked all his live to bring Buddhism closer to the West

The man is a CIA stooge who hasn’t done anything productive in his life. He’s the closest you could get to an exiled Marie Antoinette crying about the rights of French people being oppressed after they kicked her out. He wants to bring back feudalism and essentially slavery to Tibet because he would be part of the few nobles reaping all the benefits.

The invader was only hostile to the wealthy landowners who quite literally enslaved the people in literally feudal Tibet. Imagine if China had given international recognition to Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, and people were treating her as a sort of government in exile. This is literally what the US is doing with the fucking Dalai Lama

Yes, Russia is a borderline fascist empire as it stands now, and its government deserves extreme criticism for it. Sad consequence of dismantling the Soviet Union and selling it to the most corrupt bidder under the supervision of MIT economists.

What’s your point anyway? That sending people to the meat grinder in Ukraine is good actually by either side of the proxy inter-imperialist conflict?

I’d say it’s a dead stalemate right now

Well then you’ve bought into the western propaganda. Don’t be surprised in some months when a very unfavourable peace agreement is signed.

You don’t get it though, Russia bad. Therefore, throwing your male population through forced conscription into the meat grinder with no expectation of winning is based and cool and patriotic.

I’ve been hearing the line that Ukraine is losing for three years now

And how have the frontlines moved over said 3 years?

Hitler never won absolute majority vote in an election, but I get your point.

I agree fundamentally with what you say even if I don’t believe in a natural law, that’s why I’m a socialist. So I suggest everyone to organise, to unionize their workplace, to build mutual aid structures in their local areas, and to join a revolutionary socialist party.

…which the democrats upheld during the entirety of the elections. Are the Russians behind the dems too?

Trump was democratically elected, what are your plans against that?

Honestly, why does it matter? Why not just focus on his policy and his actions? Trump is a fascist, oppressing liberties, defunding public services, and carrying out immensely harmful policy. Why the need to attribute that to a third country? Trump is only bad if he does these things because he’s a Russian asset? If he did this all because of his oligarch friends, and the desire for imperialism in the USA, and the increasingly openly right wing governments in all of the western world, it would still all be wrong.

There’s no need to summon le evil people from the east to objectively analyse the evil policy of Trump, and I don’t understand why you guys need a racist dogwhistle to do so when he is literally every single day walking alongside someone who did two fascist salutes in the inauguration.

So it turns out that what matters most in the end is less the intricacies of the system, and more what type of people get elected

Not talked about, but I can talk about

Freedom to speak, not to be heard. Good luck saying those things on TV and ever being invited again. Good luck talking about these issues in a book and getting it published.

Not justified, but the western version of the event is extremely falsified. Hakim has a good video on the topic.

My point is that the US has not been willing to escalate by using live rounds

Police violence aside

Kent state happened as a massacre against unarmed students. Tiananmen Square happened after several weeks of protests, in which protestors murdered and burned some soldiers and took their weapons. Only then did the military intervene.