What a moronic take. As though whether or not Russia decides to take all of Europe is based on this one border conflict

Even if this were true and from a credible source within WikiLeaks, the idea that whistleblowers should be impartial is not something I have ever heard. Assange is trying to stop the world’s most violent and virulent warmachine. Working with Russia and likely China by proxy, there are sophisticated theories of action about how best to do that.

But honestly, Clinton was losing no matter what because her strategy was flawed, which we have ample evidence of because she still won the popular vote! You can’t have it both ways.

The USA partnered with the German company, Siemens, to install hidden wiretaps into the phone equipment that was used by every embassy in the world. For years the USA had access to literally everything that ambassadors from every country were saying.

Then we have the USA Congress holding a trial after it was revealed that every telecom company in the country broke the law and spied on all internet traffic and gave it to the NSA. The result of that trial? Retroactive immunity for all involved and changes to the law to make it legal going forward.

Then we have the Snowden leaks that show the NSA has chosen “market solutions” for data gathering, meaning that they will collaborate with private companies, even funding them through the network of money, so that those private companies gather as much data as they can on citizens so the NSA can buy it. They also have major partnerships to install persistent vulnerabilities that they can exploit, and there are major revelations in the leaks about how they influence which companies but which companies in order to ensure control over the startup tech that doesn’t collaborate with military intelligence.

Prism, Raptor, Echelon - these are the programs we know about. There are undoubtedly a number we don’t.

Then you have Oracle, Palantir, AT&T, Verizon and many other tech companies that were either founded by, funded by, or wrre revealed to be infiltrated by military intelligence.

Military intelligence influences cryptography at the highest levels, pushing for specific algorithms to be adopted by ANSI and ISO as the default recommendations.

USA spies get jobs in American tech companies. That’s part of the program. High level State Department and Military Intelligence officials take executive jobs openly in companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

And then they lie about it, have been lying about for decades, and create clear and obvious propaganda that belies their motivations. When TikTok was being accused of being Chinese spy tech, the USA forced TikTok to give control of its USA operations to a USA tech company with executives and staff from the USA State Department and Military Intelligence. Even after this happened, they continued to publish scare articles about TikTok being Chinese spyware even though in the USA it was controlled entirely by the government.

The USA has 600+ military bases around the world, it has secret black sites in dozens of countries where it conducts torture, bio experiments, and illegal operations explicitly to avoid legal troubles in the USA (because they aren’t there) and legal troubles in their host country (because they have immunity).

Compare that to China.

You have to understand that moderate positions or centrist positions are compromised positions. That means that you start with a position you have, then someone takes up a different position and then you change your position based on the relative location of their position. That’s not a great way to go about arriving at positions. In fact, it’s a guaranteed way to never actually get anywhere because your opponents merely need to go more extremely in one direction and you’ll just get dragged along.

What you think of as extremists on the side of communism are people with positions that have literally been around for over a century and have been based in an adherence to scientifically analyzing human society to arrive at their positions. Does that make them extreme? Would you say the same thing about climate scientists? Do you think it’s extremist to hold firm to positions that have been well and thoroughly analyzed and arrived at through rigorous study and debate?

The average age of Ukraine’s army shot up by almost 10 years. They have depleted their troop count, a tragic example of killing off all the military aged males through war.

This is how proxy wars go. The Republicans aren’t bought out by Russia. The USA uses proxies for specific strategic goals. When the goal is achieved or becomes untenable, they cut off the proxy. That’s just how it goes.

To avoid showing voters the realpolitik they need some plausible reasons for cutting off the proxy. Usually it’s a combination of fiscal responsibility noise and isolationist noise. This is no different.

The USA was provoking Russia. Russia got provoked. The USA activated some sleeper cells, those cells got neutralized. The USA wanted to see Russian capabilities, they got what they could, including intel on hypersonic missile performance, but I don’t know if they got what they wanted.

And then multiple fronts got opened up against the West (Niger, Palestine, etc) and threat escalations emerged in unexpected locations (Iranian missiles im Venezuela). And it’s become clear the West can’t produce the war machine it needs for the conflicts that are coming. So, it’s time to cut off the proxy. Russia doesn’t have the means to occupy Ukraine. The USA is not worried about Russian expansion, so there’s no more reason to be there, except of course the rhetorical reasons that were used to mask the proxy nature of the conflict in the first place (russophobia, anti-communism, moral posturing, etc). So, to control the domestic mood, the Republicans get to play their part as dirt bags, make a bunch of rhetorical noise about why we can’t fund them anymore, and psyops adds some Russiagate flavor through networks of influence to mask the reality: the proxy has outlived its usefulness and the USA is cutting them off.

That’s a HUGE decrease. I thought the USA was trying to decouple from China, migrate European industry here, and build a weapons supply chain? What’s going on?

What’s wild is that Western PR was actually saying that Russia was going to invade and Ukraine kept saying that they weren’t.

You mean fasco-christianty? As in some Christianity is fascist but not all Christianity? That’s not the point. The point is that all fascism so far has been Christian. Qualifying fascism by saying this fascism is Christo fascism makes it seem like it’s somehow different from regular fascism

But it sounds like it’s somehow different from regular fascism when you qualify it with a prefix.

It’s liberal brain rot to rip everything out of context and just assume each concept is a perfectly impenetrable frictionless sphere that exists in the realm of forms.

The real reason for the comparison, however, is to allude to the way the USSR marched to Berlin, liberating most of Europe from the Nazis, defeating 80% of the Nazi forces, and did so through superior supply chains, superior manufacturing, and superior grand strategy (not just battlefield but also social, political, and economic), which creates the spectre of Russia continuing to expand Westward, which creates the case for expanding NATO funding, putting all of Europe on austerity and a war footing, and getting the Americans to show up and fight the Boogeyman.

I ask this a lot, but why prefix fascist with Christo? ALL European fascism has always been Christian and explicitly so. It’s an inheritance from the Holy Roman Empire that dominated Europe and engaged in ethnic cleansing in the name of God. It’s the same Christian Manifest Destiny that genocide the indigenous in the western hemisphere. It’s the same Christianity that led to an explicit policy of rape by the Spanish all over Latin America to breed out the unclean blood and save as many souls as possible. It’s never NOT been Christian.

Just call it what it is. It’s fascism. It’s the same fascism.

You cannot reason with empire-building dictators that ignore all such restraints.

This is correct, which is why Russia ultimately invaded Ukraine, because after 30 years of trying, it was deemed impossible to reason with empire-building dictators in the West that ignore all restraint.

• 600+ global military bases
• pulling out of the intermediate nuclear missile treaty
• killing state and military officials via executive order anywhere in the world
• spending more on military than the next 10 countries COMBINED
• imprisoning 5 times the number of people they represent in world population, and the most per capita than any other nation
• wire tapping their entire citizenry, every single embassy, and accountable to no one
• dozens of black site in countries around the world for torture, medical experimentation, and illegal operations
• dropping more bombs on Korea than all forces combined dropped bombs in WW2
• transferring nuclear technology to Israel
• training hundreds of dictators and death squads throughout Latin America to kill indigenous, black, and left-leaning innocents
• training terrorists all over the world, supplying them with arms and intelligence
• protecting their oligarchs, making the richest people capitalism has ever produced, while life expectancy drops precipitously, maternal mortality grows past the worst in the developed world, homeless increases, and food insecurity spreads
• withholding life saving medicines from the world’s majority to ensure profit margins for their oligarchs
• launching wars for oil
• being the only country to use a nuke against humans, doing it twice, and doing it against civilian population centers
• enforcing collective punishment regimes for multiple generations to cause immense suffering and death in multiple countries
• creating a transnational nuclear military without democratic accountability, staffing it with Nazis, protecting Nazis by distributing them all over the world, creating underground Nazi militias all over Europe, then vetoing and voting against every attempt at the UN to condemn the glorification of Nazis

You are 100% right that you cannot reason with empire-building psychotics, but you have the finger pointed in the wrong direction.

Just look at the rhetorical narratives in both the government and the media over the last 2 years and you’ll the narrative has been shifting this way for many months, and the foundation for that shift was the completely inconsistent and illogical political theater of the Rs vs the Ds

Wtf?

Tibet and Xinjiang are literally autonomous ethnic regions that are under local governments of Tibetans and Uighurs, respectively. No one has any concerns about the poor donating plasma or Canadians pushing euthanasia to the poor, but you’re gonna just smear scientists because of Westoid propaganda?

Such fucking grotesque politician theater. They have the power to do so much more. They use their power, deliberately, on the smallest acts of symbolism. They are taunting us.

The US has been prosecuting domestic genocide since it’s founding. They were forcing hysterectomies by law up to the 1970s. There was a fucking State Eugenics Board in North Carolina and the involuntary sterilization laws in that state weren’t repealed until 2003.

The USA has always been a psychotic bloodthirsty genocidal regime and everyone has known for a long time except most Americans, most Canadians, and average Brits. This particular genocide in Palestine is finally waking those people up to the truth.

Is this that new Russian secret weapon?

If it’s truly disruptive tech, and we know about it, we don’t want Russia to know we know.