No, chances are I have more in-depth personal knowledge of war than that fellow (don’t forget, the russians invaded in 2014).
To claim that all of war is based on cold war era “military industrial complex” polemics is ahistorical and doesn’t align with reality.
If that speech is as relevant as you claim, you should have no problems with explaining in 3-5 sentences how it is relevant in the context of this discussion.
You clearly have no clue what you are talking if you think russia is anywhere close to the US.
It would be like if during the invasion of Iraq, the US annexed Basra, banned Islam, sent anyone caught speaking arabic into basement torture camps and sent hundreds of thousand Iraqi children to Texas and made them eat pork chops and read about how great US oligarchs are.
So you were wrong about all western countries selling weapons to Israel.
No, this is incorrect.
Not all western countries sell weapons to Israel.
And you need to read up on russian history (at least 20th century).
One thing that I learned after moving to Lemmy is how vapid, trope-like and uninspired western “leftists” are in their thinking.
No wonder we have the rise of Donald Trump and significant gains among far right/pro-corruption forces.
There are of course other factors too (information age etc.), but I digress.
What does this have to do with russian imperialism?
Was the russian economy running off of war in the 90s too?
Does Smedly Buttlers speak russian? I am genuinely curious.
A dumb take considering the imperialist (and genocidal) history of russia.
They weren’t doing good in the 90s, didn’t stop them for invading Moldova, Ichkeria and getting involved in the Caucasus with malicious intentions.
I had a major project delivery on the next day (that still need some significant last minute work). I didn’t really get much sleep on previous night either due to the project.
Everything everything went OK, but not fun to be tired and need the sleep, but simply not be to do it.
I doubt this is going to work.
I was visiting an Asian country where alcohol ads were banned (and generally attitudes towards alcohol were negative, not like in the middle east, but still), they constantly had TV ads for a compilation album CD (this was a while ago) that prominently featured a major alcohol brand.
It won’t change anything.
Putin is a mere symptom, not the cause.
I don’t say this lightly, I’ve lived in russia for over decade in the 90s and 2000s.
If this actually was a “putin problem” and not a “russia problem”, what benefit would there be to claim to otherwise?
S Jaishankar, the external affairs minister, called Washington’s demand that New Delhi stop buying Russian crude “unjustified and unreasonable” and accused the west of hypocrisy, noting that Europe trades far more with Russia. To avoid the extra US tariff, India would have to replace about 42% of its oil imports.
The 42% figure needs some contextualisation. I believe the figure was significantly less (single digits?) before the beginning of the full scale invasion.
This sounds almost unreal, doesn’t it?
You don’t see how a bunch of Corbyn fanboys lying about easily verifyable facts would make someone from Ukraine less than willing to engage in a discussion in a diplomatic manner?
You may not be a Corbyn fanboy. To be honest it’s a bit difficult to track who is who in the threads for this post.
He is not anti-war, he is pro-russian genocidal imperialism.
He is a tankie, and when has the working class done well under regimes that tankies support?
As I mentioned in this thread, only an idiot would think such matters wouldn’t be reported in Ukrainian media (that has no stake in internal UK politics).
[1] actually referenced a different specific example, but the point remains.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/t5uaq4/private_eye_used_an_actual_image_from_stop_the/
The image in that reddit thread is from “Stop the War” fake-peace, pro russian genocidal imperialism organization. And that tankie Corbyn roach has a senior position in that shit org.
Yeah, yeah.
You don’t even know the position of a politician you’re fanboying for.
Someone did check the examples I provided and they are all true:
https://feddit.uk/post/35181984/19647124
I told you that such matters are reported on in Ukrainian media and they have both editorial and financial incentives to be honest about these sort things.
Keep telling yourself that.
You know I am right (even though you may not admit publicly). You’re too scared to look very clear and specific examples, because you know that Corbyn is a massive supporter of russian genocidal imperialism!
You’re only saying this because you can’t address the well documented points I brought up.
Anyone reading my post can see the context.
There is that supremacist paternalism that I was talking about.
This is exactly why Western “leftists” are either useful idiots (E.g. Varoufakis, who otherwise has very good ideas and a modern leftist worldview) or collaborators with the russians (Corbyn).
I am just highlighting how this comes off as.
The gall to assume I am just making shit up because I hate daddy Corbyn. Not mention thinking that our Ukrainian-language media (and even english language media run by Ukrainian diaspora in places like Canada) lack integrity to validate such reporting.
Height of arrogance, racism even.
I don’t even need to do a web search to write out these points. Who would have thought that in a country being invaded by russia for 11 years out of its 34 years of independence, the media would report on Western leaders collaborating with russians?
Or do you think we are all dumb eastern european sour cream n1ggaz who don’t have journalism?
You can look up the sources for the abovementioned points, it’s not difficult. Or assume I am lying, whatever works for you.
Shouldn’t Elmo be banned after from the UK after such actions?