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[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nothing shows how bought out the Republicans are to Russia more than the statement on how they didn't want to send weapons to perpetuate war. That's all these assholes want to ever do. The one time they don't and it's for daddy Putin. Half the issues with populism in the US seem to stem from the level of destructive populism Russia enjoys.

[–] SUPERcrazy3530 34 points 6 months ago

They wanted to stay in Afghanistan even after 20 years but 2 years of Ukraine is too much.

[–] SinningStromgald 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I sure hope some alphabet agencies in the US are looking deep into the senators blocking aid to Ukraine for being foreign agents of Russia.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Americans who think the alphabet agencies are going to save us: ACAB includes the alphabet agencies.

[–] SinningStromgald 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh I don't think they will. I meant it sarcastically but I realize now that probably isn't coming across.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] thenewred 12 points 6 months ago

As opposed to Cole's law, which is a finely shredded cabbage salad

[–] Skullgrid 4 points 6 months ago

hope away, the alphabet is mightly righty

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Not from the US or Europe, but I kept hearing news about Ukraine countering Russia? What just happened?

[–] TropicalDingdong 28 points 6 months ago

Not from the US or Europe, but I kept hearing news about Ukraine countering Russia? What just happened?

US Republicans are working towards autocratic facism in the US, and fundamental yet unspoken within that is their palpable relationship with other autocratic and autocratic hopefuls like Un and Putin.

US Republicans (and their voters) would rather live under theocratic facism than to have to share the world with people they don't understand. They believe by supporting Putin, they'll achieve their goals, which to date, has show to be an effective strategy.

Republicans, the elected ones and the ones that just vote R, have become the enemies of Democracy globally, and within the United States.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Massive swell of people to make any progress to have something to campaign with for Putin's re-election. Ukraine has been generally running low on artillery and can't fully capitalize on countering large unit offenses. The Ukrainians have a lot of western equipment but are low on funds to supply them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You can’t reload Western equipment with funds, and the West’s ammunition production capacity has proven to be lacking compared to Russia’s.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Tbf, Russia has been sourcing ammunition from North Korea.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

Hahahahaha, good joke. Well, I suppose it's true, if you think of rusty nails and pellets as being "ammunition".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from the city in the industrial Donbas region to avoid encirclement, the army chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Saturday, adding that he had acted to “preserve the lives and health of servicemen”, stabilise the situation and move troops to more favourable defence lines.

The capture of Avdiivka gives Russia full control of the area surrounding Donetsk, a large Ukrainian city that was seized by Russian proxy forces in 2014, and comes as the second anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears.

The Ukrainian army had struggled on the frontline around Avdiivka in recent months during one of the most intense battles of the war, which left the city almost destroyed and caused nearly all of the more than 30,000 prewar population to leave.

The US president, Joe Biden, had warned that the city might fall to Russia due to weapons shortages exacerbated by months of Republican congressional opposition to a new US funding package for the Ukrainian military.

After the failure of Ukraine to pierce Russian lines last year, Moscow has been trying to grind down Ukrainian forces just as Kyiv weighs up a major new mobilisation and Volodymyr Zelenskiy has appointed a new commander to run the war.

It holds particular symbolism for Russia as it was briefly taken in 2014 by Moscow-backed separatists who seized a swathe of eastern Ukraine but was recaptured by Ukrainian troops who built extensive fortifications.


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[–] TropicalDingdong 1 points 6 months ago

This is the cost of bipartisanship with Republicans.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As usual, mods remove replies calling attention to discussion manipulation by a specific nationality mentioned in the post.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The votes & comments are organic. You’re just used to the voting patterns & conversations of imperial core social media platforms. Once you step outside that bubble, you may find that opinions genuinely differ.

Concerning the #BlueAnon conspiracy theory in particular:

Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork

MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes

Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If by "core" you mean "civilized world", yes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

So you’re just going to openly declare your imperial chauvinism like Josep Borell did?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to declare that positioning oneself against western civilization as if a moral guardian, yet embracing cancerous regimes like NK, Chinese dictatorship or Russian oligarchic dictatorship, is the hallmark of a moron that is working against Marxist interests.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

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