reddit libs are losing their minds here 🤣

I think so, viewing capitalism as a cult is a good formulation that captures the nature of the system really well in my opinion.

secret is like the most abused word in western media, every time they write about some western idiot politician visiting Ukraine it’s always secret too 🤣

haha we’re growing by the day :)

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oh for sure

It’s amazing how the fact that US deployed missiles in Turkey first is virtually unknown in the west.

lol probably

When the inevitable collapse happens in the west and all these scumbags get to live to what Russians suffered back in the 90s, I’m going to feel no remorse for these people.

haha yeah

Lib position is fundamentally based on the notion that the west can dominate Russia. The whole rhetoric of saying that the west can’t let Russia set the precedent of invading countries and so on is premised on the idea that the west is in a position to prevent Russia from doing so by force. The west hasn’t had to do diplomacy for the past three decades and got used to simply dictating terms to the rest of the world.

Now, it’s becoming increasingly evident that the west is not a position to fight Russia in a hot war or in an economic one. Sooner or later the liberal mainstream is going to have to grapple with this fact.

The argument liberals make today is that negotiation is not possible because Russia cannot be trusted. However, this is an infantile argument because politics have never been about trust. Politics are about understanding your own interests and the interests of your adversaries. You don’t have to like or trust each other, but you have to have a mutual understanding of what your respective interests are. Once you do that then you can negotiate mutually agreeable terms with each other. This used to be understood when the west had to contend with the power of USSR, but seems to be a lost art nowadays. Hopefully the imbeciles running things in the west rediscover it before dragging us into a world war.

I find the trick with libs is that you have to use their sources they consider to be trustworthy, it makes it a lot harder for them to dismiss that. And western MSN will often squirrel the facts away somewhere in the article, so you just have to go through the pain of actually reading through the drivel to find them. This was a rare case where they put the relevant stuff in the actual headline.

and that’s why I’m crossposting :)

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same

exactly

I think this is intended to clear US of the terrorism, and set up Zaluzhnyi as the fall guy.

indeed

indeed

Thing is that you can’t run a country solely on the war industry, and as the standard of living continues to collapse there is going to be more and more civil unrest across the west. Neocons will undoubtedly keep control in the near future, but that’s just going to continue to sharpen the contradictions within western societies.

The way US is going, we might not to have to wait too long.

turns out Ukraine is releasing water from the dam upstream that they control in case anybody has doubts regarding who is responsible https://twitter.com/sinnaig/status/1666494567388962818

makes sense

yup

yup

here’s a good article on the subject https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202205/1265027.shtml

Yeah, anything that’s not connected to the internet is generally safe.