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[–] [email protected] 243 points 2 days ago (57 children)

Funny wojak faces but to clear up an apparent misconception here, Ukrainian weren't fighting for abstract concepts like "freedom" and Democracy", they were fighting to stop Russian soldiers from killing their families, raping their children, and burning their homes to the ground.

I hope this helps!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ukrainians were/are still fighting to defend themselves from an illegal invasion. But America sees and has always seen Ukraine as a proxy to weaken a geo-strategic rival. NATO was not realistically on the table as long as the conflict in the Donbas was ongoing (it would have immediately triggered art.5) to keep promising NATO instead of working on a more realistic path to peace has probably caused the death of 100000s of Ukrainians. And just as with many other imperial proxies in history, the proxy is left to deal with the fallout while the empire retreats to the metropol and prepares for the next conflict.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

US is fatal even for itself

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

US is in a state of slow implosion. Rest of the world needs to look at collaborating while excluding the US.

My guess is China will fill the void left by the disintegration of USAID in order to boost its global standing.

I strongly encourage all nations to begin violating US intellectual property rights. Nations like India already do so with pharmaceuticals.

Eventually other nations will need to take on the mantle of tech and pharmaceutical research and development and we don't want to live in a world where all this progress is lost.

Americans have chosen to nuke their own democracy and we need to minimize the damage done to the rest of the world as much as possible.

[–] chiliedogg 13 points 2 days ago

Our implosion isn't so slow these days.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

My guess is China will fill the void left by the disintegration of USAID in order to boost its global standing.

China will take large chunks. But I think we will also see a decentralization as china won't be able to take it all. Countries like Turkey, Malaysia, Brazil and so on will probably increase their regional soft powers a lot.

This process also already started years ago, but will be catalyzed by this.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 11 points 2 days ago

Going to start threatening to bomb Texas if it doesn't hand over its oil reserves, at this rate.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (20 children)

history truly is a flat circle

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This image is almost 3 years old already lmao.

If any libs want to learn how tankies see the future you might want to read about the past for once. Pop history doesn't count.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (14 children)

That's the kicker, Leftists are correct far more often than liberals yet libs never put 2 and 2 together.

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[–] Blue_Morpho 87 points 3 days ago (14 children)

If it was simple mob extortion it would be reasonable. Zelensky originally agreed when he thought the deal would be to pay for American protection.

But Trump wants the money AND wants Ukraine to surrender. Trump is a stupid mob boss who doesn't understand why "Pay me and I'll let the rival gang burn your business." isn't going to be accepted.

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