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Trump pauses new Russia sanctions passed by Congress amid deepening row with Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)
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President signed the legislation championed by late senator Lindsey Graham last month but has waived the restrictions as they were due to come into effect

Maybe "the West" no longer exists. There's just the US and then there's Europe, and each of them is doing their own thing.

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[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

As opposed to the based countries of Russia, China, etc, which have no feudal characteristics, political opposition is healthy and plentiful, have zero control of the media, and you can just say "no thanks" when you are called to fight

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  • [–] -3 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

    Russia does not have compulsory conscription. Did you think that was true just based on your spoon fed propaganda? Is this an emotional truth for you?

    Russia and China are liberators and peacemakers, respectfully.

    Just in the Sahel, Russia is helping bring to a close centuries of unending colonialism by Europe and America.

    The unipolar world order is over, and I personally think it couldn't have come soon enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

    Do you think the 600.000 soldiers and 13.000 civilians that have died so far in the war would agree with this sentiment? How is China a peacemaker while threatening their neighbors with war?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (14 children)

    There's actually far more soldier deaths, as the Discord Leaks showed. The Ukraine War is nothing but lies.

    But yes, so little civilian deaths is unheard of, and almost all from Ukraine's retribution on their own supposed people.

    China brokered peace between Saudi Arabia and Yemen before America and Israel arbitrarily attacked Iran, triggering Saudi attacks on Yemen. China has consistently pushed for mediation and diplomacy at the UN.

    America is out of control and needs to be stopped, and this didn't start with Trump.

    We currently arms over 80% of all dictatorships.

    America is the biggest threat to global democracy, security, and peace globally.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (13 children)

    Right, China is completely peaceful towards its neighbors, Japan, India, Taiwan and the Philippines have nothing but positive things to say. The aggressor Russia is doing nothing wrong, and all evidence to the contrary is fake → there is no point talking to you.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

    Japan occupied China and committed genocide.

    Japan occupied the Philippines and committed genocide.

    Don't forget Korea, same thing.

    Taiwan is China, only occupied by a warlord after the war. China has patiently and peacefully waited for reunification.

    You seem to think China simply existing after all this is a threat.

    And same with Russia, every war with Russia has always come from Europe attacking it. Now is no different. And the reason is obvious, same reason we always attack someone.👇

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (11 children)

    Why do you say „You seem to think China simply existing after all this is a threat“? How could you possible arrive at that conclusion?

    And same with Russia, every war with Russia has always come from Europe attacking it. Now is no different. And the reason is obvious, same reason we always attack someone.

    Nah, I consider Russia a threat for attacking other countries, conducting hybrid warfare against European countries and threatening nuclear attacks multiple times.

    That weird statistic again, we haven’t attacked the US, Russia, Canada or Australia or China. Pick another hill.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

    "Hybrid warfare" is your "It's coming right for us!" Give me a break.

    Millions of former Ukrainians stopped being "Ukrainian" the moment their democratically elected government was overthrown in a US bankrolled coup.

    Democracy is derived from the individual and nothing else, not race, not religion, not ethnicity, not arbitrary borders, and not even nations themselves.

    People have a right to exist, not nations.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (9 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_hybrid_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_sabotage_operations_in_Europe

    Go ahead, read up on it.

    Democracy is derived from the individual

    Demos is literally people. A large group of people who form a nation have a right to uphold that nation. Logically, ethically, and judicially.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 weeks ago* (8 children)

    masturbatory gestures

    The people of the Donbass are also people. What's your point? Once a nation or border is established its somehow undemocratic to change that? People being tied to land is serfdom, feudalism. Land is tied to people.

    Mince words and gishgallop all day, a coup is a coup is a coup is a coup. And FFS, I'm older than "Ukraine".

    And even it's founding was undemocratic. The first Soviet Referendum saw almost unanimous consensus by all the Republics to stay in the USSR, INCLUDING UKRAINE.

    I guess it didn't go like Gorbachev wanted, so the pizzahut munching drunk imbecile threw it out.

    America has never once supported democracy that wasn't profitable to America's oligarchs, and always at the expense of the workers everywhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    The people of the Donbass are also people. What's your point? Once a nation or border is established its somehow undemocratic to change that?

    Dude, I don’t even know what to say. If you cannot see that a foreign power invading isn’t democratic, we don’t have the necessary base of principles to talk.

    People being tied to land is serfdom, feudalism. Land is tied to people.

    That is a highschoolers take on this topic, come on.

    And even it's founding was undemocratic. The first Soviet Referendum saw almost unanimous consensus by all the Republics to stay in the USSR, INCLUDING UKRAINE.

    That’s almost 40 years ago, what’s your point?

    America has never once supported democracy that wasn't profitable to America's oligarchs, and always at the expense of the workers everywhere.

    This is a non sequitur but at least we agree on that.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    So D-Day wasn't "democratic"? Fuck off.

    40 years. Yes. I'm older than "Ukraine".

    This is all you need to know about the West's adversarial nature toward Russia. Same reason as all of our wars.👇

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

    Right, Ukraine is comparable to the Nazi Regime that had conquered large parts of Europe and declared war on the US, and Ukraine being younger than you somehow justifies a war against it. It seems you’ve eaten up so much Russian propaganda, your brain is fried.

    America has never once supported democracy that wasn't profitable to America's oligarchs, and always at the expense of the workers everywhere.

    D-Day was democratic

    Make it make sense.

    And - seriously - what is your obsession with this stupid graph? This is like the 5th time you posted this, as if you expected this commonly known information somehow explains geopolitics.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Natural resources is the only reason we ever fight wars in the modern age.

    That's the thing. America never "defeated fascism". The Soviet Union defeated fascism. America swooped in to save fascism from beneath Soviet boots, and we've been fostering ever since.

    NATO is the Fourth Reich

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Again, you’re victim to propaganda. The SU and GDR proclaimed stricter and swifter and better denazification, even built a anti-fascist-wall, but in reality they not only employed former NSDAP politicians, but even doctors who participated in euthanasia-programs of disabled children. They even helped them conceal their identity because it wouldn’t have the right look.

    And the Soviet Union had its own nuclear program with their own Nazi scientists.

    It was Realpolitik on both sides, stop ignoring one side’s faults because you like it more.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Nazi politicians and doctors? I'm calling bullshit. You made that up.

    Former Nazi scientists were taken at gunpoint and held as prisoners by the Soviets, then either repatriated to Germany or sent to prisons or executed for their crimes after all the information had been extracted.

    They sure as fuck weren't running their space program or going to Disneyland.

    You're a straight up Nazi apologist who can eat shit.

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