Zelenskyy is the fall guy, the guy chosen for his ability to act and improv which makes him capable of appearing to lead while being led. The Ukrainian government since 2014 has been a puppet of America, right up to today. As much as you think it’s Trump and Republicans discarding Ukraine, it’s the US strategists doing it because it’s not effective for their purposes anymore.
Yes, attack the source because you can’t attack the content.
Do you comment like this on every single article posted on Lemmy from:
NPR BBC Al-Jazeera WaPo NYT Newsweek Reuters AP HuffPo Washington Times SF Gate Wall St Journal The Atlantic The New Yorker CNN NBC ABC Fox
Or is it only Fox and RT?
Yeah, so that’s mostly spin.
First, NATO is a defensive alliance that has been used offensively multiple times. The very first time was by Clinton, who was critical to the discourse around structural security for Europe and the RF as the USSR dissolved, and he used it to launch a devastating invasion of the last remaining communist nation in the region - Yugoslavia. A clear show of force and willingness to commit war crimes.
The liberals argue that point by saying there was a genocide/ethnic cleansing going on, but then refuse to show any evidence of it in the numbers, and refuse to explain why NATO was dropping depleted uranium bombs in high density civilian urban areas.
Therefore the idea that NATO is defensive is suspect, but also the idea that NATO being defensive should give it a free pass is massively problematic.
For example. You think you understand MAD, the framework that keeps us all safe from nuclear war. But are you aware that the USA has been trying to undermine MAD for decades on the premise that it ought to be able to launch a nuclear strike without fear of retaliation? How would they do that?
Well, first it needs major first strike advantages. It achieves his by having very short times from launch to impact, which requires proximity. Then it needs diversity of paths, which requires encirclement. And finally it requires anti-missile asymmetry, which requires both proximity and encirclement.
By having defensive anti missile capabilities inches from its opponents, while it’s opponents can achieve no such thing, the USA can undermine MAD. This is inherently an offensive capability. You understand this pretty well because you understand why certain types of body armor are illegal for civilians. Body armor is “purely defensive” but what it enables is devastating offense.
So yes, if NATO was ONLY installing anti missile capabilities around Russia that would be enough. But that’s not all they were doing.
Right before the Maidan coup was Ukraine’s first ever join exercise with NATO. Through the following years those exercises would include Trident exercises, which saw nuclear forces training for strikes on Russia including nuclear bombers. Those exercises also included a simulated invasion of Russian territory.
Defensive simulations of defensive invasions?
No. The reality is that the Western claptrap that NATO is both purely defensive and also that pure defense cannot be a cause for intervention are both spurious and cynically deceptive primarily meant to be consumed by citizens of NATO countries to maintain an xenophobic fever that can be leveraged in times of need for public support of Western barbarism.
Incapable of imagining the end of capitalism, liberals become a death cult that increasingly fantasizes about nuclear armageddon
This is Russia Derangement Syndrome or what we used to call Russophobia.
Russia a) has zero intent to invade the rest of Europe, b) has zero capability to invade the rest of Europe, c) gains absolutely nothing by invading the rest of Europe, d) creates incredible strategic weakness by invading the rest of Europe, and e) alienates not only European markets but would even alienate its own allies
Russia cannot and will not invade the rest of Europe. Anyone fear mongering to the contrary is selling something.
Interestingly, it’s actually fascism. Look at how Italy and Germany salvaged capitalism as it was crashing all around them - they artificially buoyed the big industrial companies and protected their stock prices so that the owning class could maintain the value of their portfolios.
Compare this with communism every except China and it’s obvious this isn’t communism.
And when you do compare with China, you actually see the reverse situation, which is that China starts from total state control of the Commons and then slowly and incrementally creates operating space for private enterprise to develop within the confines of the communist project.
I’m sorry, do you trust Ukrainian sources? American sources? NATO sources?
UN, get your own shit together. What did you do about the Haiti sexual violence committed under your own fucking flag
This creates the conditions for India and China to develop better relationships
I wish liberals would contend with this in earnest. China is not publishing think pieces that explain in brutal detail how they will dismantle the US. Russia is not publishing these things. Cuba is not publishing these things. Iran is not publishing these things.
At what point do you acknowledge that the US is the evil empire and these other countries are nowhere near as bad as the US is?
This is not just intelligence agency. The story reads as though Microsoft just makes buggy software. But the reality as revealed by Snowden is that MS is under the active employ of intelligence and they create these vulnerabilities on behalf of the US intelligence agencies.
I am not being sarcastic. Your push back created the opportunity for me to go gather my sources to prove my points and instead I learned that I was wrong.
You know what? I’m sure you already know this - you’re right.
Here’s what I found to support my position:
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/india-neoliberalism-modi-hindu-authoritarianism (2024)
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/1/15/indias-modi-gives-warm-welcome-to-israels-netanyahu (2018)
But after a lot of reading, it looks a lot like India is charting it’s own development course that stays very clearly away from being a junior partner to the US. There are major economic ties, with the US buying 20% of India’s total exports, but everywhere I looked I saw US journalists and US politicians vastly overstating how much India was working with them, and I saw so much evidence of India playing politics while maintaining its sovereignty, maintaining its autonomy, and using the US and Europe to develop its indigenous productive forces.
So, Modi may be a hindu nationalist and stoking division with Muslims, but you’re right about foreign policy and trade and you forced me to reevaluate my propaganda-based perspective on India. Thanks for that.
Yes. This is hot on the heels of the US punishing Brazil and attempting to split them off of BRICS. Come to think of it, the recent bullshit of giving Boers asylum may also be aimed at disrupting BRICS.
India is not likely in an economic position to tell the US to go pound sand, nor do I think they are likely to fully cave. They will attempt to thread the needle, but doing so will require some harm to Russian interests.
As in do something performative that attacks some aspect of Russian revenue in order to get the US to reduce tariffs.
The reality I am referencing is the Modi government’s clear preference for neoliberalism, constant kowtowing to the USA, and clear recalcitrance towards anything meaningfully anti-imperial.
Edit: I was very ignorant about India. I still am, But I used to be, too.
India is likely to fold and punish Russia to get back on the USA’s good side. The Modi contingent are happy with being a junior partner to the empire.
Edit: I was very ignorant about India. I still am, But I used to be, too.
Thanks! It was valuable context
Go ahead. Make your educated case based on your research on how Putin is Stalin 2.0.
I’ll wait.