Background

I have been quite fascinated by Europe's continental suicide in the face of the failure of Project Ukraine and the fracturing of the "transatlantic understanding".

I think Europe still has time to choose strategic autonomy:

  • Rapprochement with Russia to restore their energy competitiveness.
  • Rapprochement with China to restore their global trade and industrial competitiveness.
  • Seek out global markets to blunt the Trump tariffs.
  • Pressure Ukraine to hasten their inevitable capitulation before they loose EVEN MORE LAND AND SOLDIERS.

Of course as we all know, the Western media has the complete opposite narrative, a jumble something like "Russia has lost 10 bajillion soldiers and they don't actually have military equipment at all and also advancing on the battlefield counts as losing if it wasn't as fast as we ourselves predicted it would be."

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Mod actions: removed comments, banned from community
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  1. This war started in 2008 at the Bucharest NATO summit, when the US announced its intention to expand NATO into Ukraine and Georgia. EVEN EUROPEAN LEADERS like Merkel and Sarkozy noted AT THE TIME that the Russians would view NATO expansion into these countries as tantamount to a declaration of war. Over the next 14 years the West did a "color revolution", the Banderites did an ethnic cleansing campaign in the Donbass, and the West sabotaged and undermined THREE DIFFERENT PEACE AGREEMENTS before the Russians' famous patience finally expired in 2022.
  2. Ukraine doesn't need money to win the war, it needs TRAINED INFANTRY and to a lesser extent weapons. MOREOVER, anyone who thinks this money will last Ukraine even a whole year is delusional. The annual BASELINE burn rate of the Ukraine regime is 150B+ annually, and tax receipts are essentially nonexistent.
  3. They must be REALLY DESPERATE to risk the CREDIBILITY OF THE ENTIRE EUROPEAN FINANCIAL SYSTEM on this foolish gambit. They are breaking the very "Laws of Capital" that the West itself wrote. The Europeans seem determined to beat the Americans in a race to economic decline and collapse.

Tell me again about the "moral case" for stealing sovereign assets to prop up a stunningly corrupt regime in terminal collapse?

Looking forward to the tortured logic justifying my ban.

My Commentary

I know enough to know that they really don't like contrary narratives about Russia/Ukraine in any of the Euro-comms so I wrote my comments very carefully.

Can you, the esteemed commenters of YPTB, spot the misinformation or rage bait? Perhaps I am just blind to it in my own content. If present, did I "ragebait first" or did the other commenter?

Reminder that "Russia says this, therefore it is misinformation" is not a cogent argument or evidence.

this is a screenshot of modlog entries for my user, showing my bans and comment removals from some of the European communities

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[–] [M] 25 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Reminder to keep the comments on the mod actions. Don't start debating the war in Ukraine in here

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  • [+] [S] -8 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

    Just for clarification is that topical restriction for top-level comments only or for all comments in YPTB?

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Don't get into litigating the political argument in this community at all. YPTB is for discussing whether the ban was power tripping or not. YDI for repeating soviet conspiracy theories about color revolutions and simping for a vicious authoritarian regime. A socialist should never be on the side of the aggressor. Your argument is 100% pure distilled campism that doesn't really merit a response other than the scorn of others.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    how tf you gon talk about not litigating the politics in here and then turn around and criticize the political opinion expressed in terms of its political opposition in the very next sentence, like

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  • [+] [S] -12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I'd probably be considered a "campist" in your taxonomy but these aren't arguments from that school at all. Every last one of these facts and arguments are sourced from "realist" commentators, the vast majority of which are probably Liberals. That's what's so infuriating to me and the whole reason to even try to swim upstream against all this propaganda.

    As I said to everyone else - can you dispute a single factual point I made anywhere in any of these comments?

    Also the fact that the Maidan coup was orchestrated by the West is well documented, even in the Western press. We also learned from the Kennedy files that the West was also behind the color revolution in Hungary from which the term "tankie" originates. Unless it's always soviet conspiracy theories to speak on the extensive dirty history of US regime change operations?

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (27 children)

    Misinformation easily highlighted with your comment on when the war started. That's ragebait and just false.

    #2 how do you buy things without money? Pay wages? You need money money #3 they aren't desperate, they are financially punishing a warmongering fascist colonizer.

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  • [+] [S] -10 points 10 months ago* (26 children)

    Just restating that something is ragebait and misinformation isn't adding anything to the conversation.

    There are numerous factual claims in my comment, we can break out some of them as an exercise:

    1. point 1
    • I claim several things happened at the Bucharest summit - do you dispute any of those?
    • I claim there was widespread condemnation at the time, even from Western leaders, on the basis of Russian security concerns. Do you dispute that?
    • Do you you dispute any point in my super-abridged summary of the years 2008-2022 in Ukraine?

    Regarding your responses:

    #2 how do you buy things without money? Pay wages? You need money

    • I chose my words carefully. Ukraine needs this money to stay afloat, that is unquestionable and explains the desperation of all the Western players. However, no amount of money that the West doesn't have (see brewing sovereign debt crises) will buy weapons that aren't manufactured (see industrial decline) to be used by soldiers that don't exist (see Ukraine's EXTREMELY well-documented manpower issues).

    #3 they aren’t desperate, they are financially punishing a warmongering fascist colonizer.

    • Ummm....do you know what desperation looks like? Does "we're locking these national leaders in a room until we have a deal" project calm and confidence in your view?
    • Pretty rich coming from the nations that invented colonialism AND fascism.
    • Yes it's essential to believe history started in Ukraine in 2022 in order to prop up the Western narratives about the Brave Ukrainians and their Noble Western Friends standing firm against the Unwashed Mongoloids and their Unprovoked Invasion.
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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (25 children)

    I claim several things happened at the Bucharest summit - do you dispute any of those?

    Sure lots of things happened, none of them started a war. When putler invaded Crimea he started the war.

    However, no amount of money that the West doesn't have (see brewing sovereign debt crises) will buy weapons that aren't manufactured (see industrial decline) to be used by soldiers that don't exist (see Ukraine's EXTREMELY well-documented manpower issues).

    Right and that 3 day military operation is going sooooooo well despite Ukraine being Tiny compared to the russia? The money is there, the manufacturing is there. The Ukraine heros are there.

    ....do you know what desperation looks like? Saber rattling and threatening nukes all the time. Yes putler has given many examples thanks.

    Pretty rich coming from the nations that invented colonialism AND fascism.

    Does mean putler isn't a fascist colonizer...

    Yes it's essential to believe history started in Ukraine in 2022 in order to prop up the Western narratives about the Brave Ukrainians and their Noble Western Friends standing firm against the Unwashed Mongoloids and their Unprovoked Invasion.

    thankfully no one thinks that. Keep excusing putlers and the russias genocidal cleansing ambitions. Ukraine strikes the russian infrastructure, the russians strike schools and hospitals, much like another fascist genocider, bibi and Israel.

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  • [+] [S] -10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (24 children)

    Sure lots of things happened, none of them started a war. When putler invaded Crimea he started the war.

    Ahh, I see, history actually starts after the Maidan coup but before the bloodless annexation of Crimea. Ever wonder why it was so easy for the Russians to take the peninsula?

    3 day military operation

    The Russians never said 3 days.

    Ukraine being Tiny compared to the russia?

    Indeed. Imagine if the Russians had conducted a full mobilization and all-out war instead of this SMO.

    The money is there, the manufacturing is there.

    When your own European leaders came out and said the Russians were outproducing all of the West in artillery shells three-to-one did you just simply not believe them? Did you think it was limited to artillery shells?

    The Ukraine heros are there.

    When every single person from the US puppetmasters down to the Ukrainian NCOs on the ground has been speaking for years about Ukraine's crippling infantry shortage, did you simply not believe them either?

    Does mean putler isn’t a fascist colonizer…

    You know why don't we get a few decades away from Europe being a neocolonial power (clock still hasn't started) and then they can start pointing fingers.

    thankfully no one thinks that.

    Really is that so? It seems like that is the exact narrative you were reading from mentally as you wrote this comment.

    Keep excusing putlers and the russias genocidal cleansing ambitions.

    Projection. If the Ukrainians had simply agreed to protect Russian speakers and the Orthodox Church in 2014 they could have kept Donbass AND Crimea. But the Banderites and the West had to have it all so they gambled with the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and now they are LOSING.

    Ukraine strikes the russian infrastructure, the russians strike schools and hospitals, much like another fascist genocider, bibi and Israel.

    Projection again. The Banderites are the ones who have been continuously bombarding Russian-controlled civilian territory since the 2014 coup

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (23 children)

    I see now that I am speaking with someone's who's perception of reality is so out of step with the real world. Keep spreading that kgb propaganda, keeping apologizing for putler. Have a good life

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  • [+] [S] -7 points 10 months ago (22 children)

    When faced with a clash of worldviews like this do you ever stop and ask yourself if you are in fact the incorrect one?

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (21 children)

    All the time, thanks, you should try it from time to time

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (20 children)

    How do you suppose it was that I went from being a Liberal to an ML?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (19 children)
  • [–] [S] 0 points 10 months ago (18 children)

    What media is NOT propaganda in your view?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (17 children)
  • [–] [S] -3 points 10 months ago (16 children)

    Well, in my experience many in the West believe it is essentially impossible for their native media to ever be propaganda, which blinds them to its deceptions.

    If by contrast, you hold the view that ALL media slavishly serves SOME master we need not discuss it further.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (15 children)

    Then it does not need to be discussed further.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

    So then I think we are agreeing that naturally there are at least two major disjoint information ecosystems (Western and Russian) surrounding this war.

    The people who I have been most interested in for the past several months are those within the Western media ecosystem, but from the "realist" school of geopolitics.

    All the realists in the West have a strong consensus about the decisive Russian victory that is building on the battlefield. I trust these realists so very much more than the corporate media because not only are their arguments much more sensible and better founded, but everyday they are risking severe consequences for speaking out against the "Good War".

    In fact, the EU has already started handing out extrajudicial sanctions against its own citizens for speaking out against the war. One sanctioned, you cannot fly, access your bank account, leave the country, work OR appeal your sanction in any way. Only the Realists are talking about this so I doubt anyone in the West who doesn't listen to them has heard about it.

    An interested party could watch this video of two European academic Realists (ostensibly both Liberals) discussing the sanctions and mourning the death of European democracy.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    All the realists in the West have a strong consensus about the decisive Russian victory that is building on the battlefield. I trust these realists so very much more than the corporate media because not only are their arguments much more sensible and better founded, but everyday they are risking severe consequences for speaking out against the "Good War".

    I am a realist, and russia can win if everyone gives up on Ukraine. Ukrainian sovereignty needs to be protected against russian expansionism. It's not speaking out against the "good of war" its parroting moscow talking points

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

    I don't think the arguments you are making would be considered Realist, but I don't really want to split hairs about that.

    Putting aside for a second the high-minded talk of sovereignty and aggression, if you believed that there is literally NOTHING the Ukrainians could do to achieve their war aims at this point would you still advocate a continuation of the war?

    Both the Ukrainians and the Russians have plainly said for some time that the manpower differential between the belligerents only grows everyday. There are literally no more weapons for the West to send, and the factories to build their replacements were mothballed two decades ago. It is also plain to see on any map of the war that the Russians have sidestepped, undermined and/or captured every major Ukrainian defensive line on the front, often in multiple places at once.

    Do you think Ukraine's sovereignty will be best defended by a catastrophic collapse of the state and military? That's where this is headed

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    if you believed that there is literally NOTHING the Ukrainians could do to achieve their war aims at this point would you still advocate a continuation of the war?

    There is no absolutes. There is always something that can be done. There will likely be clandestine terrorist attacks against Russia if they continue to occupy Ukraine, they will be jailed, lose their language and culture.

    On the flip side. Should russia be allowed to annex whoever they want, whenever they want?

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

    There is no absolutes. There is always something that can be done. There will likely be clandestine terrorist attacks against Russia if they continue to occupy Ukraine, they will be jailed, lose their language and culture.

    Are you literally advocating for a continuation of the war at all costs, even the total failure of the Ukrainian state and the complete breakdown of the Ukrainian military? How do you think the Russians will feel about that outcome? Is that a better outcome in your view than a weakened and landlocked Ukraine that still has a government and has an uneasy peace with the Russians so they can start to rebuild?

    Also, I chose my words carefully. By achieve their war aims, I mean the 1995 borders, NATO membership and/or security guarantees, and reparations from Russia. None of those are ever going to happen. There's literally no possibility in any conceivable reality. The difference in military power at this point in the war is just that lopsided.

    On the flip side. Should russia be allowed to annex whoever they want, whenever they want?

    That's just a silly absolute that no one believes or is advocating for. If you want to know what the Russians will do next, then you simply have to examine THEIR Great Power security interests. The Russians have said for almost 20 years that Western military involvement in Ukraine is absolutely unacceptable to them. It is plain to see now that the West should have listened.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    That's just a silly absolute that no one believes or is advocating for

    History is the reason, because russia has ambitions to get the gang back together, regardless of what people want.

    The Russians have said for almost 20 years that Western military involvement in Ukraine is absolutely unacceptable to them. It is plain to see now that the West should have listened.

    Are you literally advocating for russias colonial ambitions? Justifying their aggression towards neighboours who weren't doing anything to russia?

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

    Russia has ambitions to get the gang back together, regardless of what people want.

    Says who? The same people who are hoping to profit from an endless war with Russia?

    Are you literally advocating for russias colonial ambitions? Justifying their aggression towards neighboours who weren't doing anything to russia?

    No to both questions on so many levels.

    This simply isn't a colonial enterprise, that doesn't even fit. The traditional argument is that Russia is acting imperialist/expansionist which I also reject. Russia has laid out their red lines very clearly. The West deliberately antagonizing and provoking Russia by loudly crossing their lines then acting surprised when the Russians enforce them is the height of stupidity and foolishness.

    who weren't doing anything to russia

    The "nothing" in question:

    • LITERALLY DEIFYING NOTORIOUS NAZI STEPAN BANDERA
    • trying to join a hostile military alliance
    • overthrowing the unity government in the Maidan coup
    • complete Western takeover of Ukrainian military and intelligence aperatus
    • Banderite military campaign in the Donbass against civilians
    • sanctions and dirty war tactics against Russian energy
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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Says who? The same people who are hoping to profit from an endless war with Russia?

    Their actions

    No to both questions on so many levels.

    You say, but then you go on to defend their actions....

    So yeah, my original point stands. All the best to you, I hope one day you can realize what russia is doing is inexcusable, just like the us in Iraq. Just like Israel in... well everywhere around them... Just like the us in Venezuela... bullshit "justifications" through propaganda has people like you defending russian atrocious actions, I believe you are smart enough not to fall for this, if you take some time and realize what's happening, through an impartial lense

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

    Sure, this isn't my first war.

    If you really believe what you're saying, why won't you address any of my questions head on? Why do you keep retreating to talking points and hyperbole? Have you honestly considered the possibility that the West and Ukraine actually are the villains the Russians have been saying they are all along?

    I believe that you are smart enough to potentially break through the narratives and see the world anew - but you have to take the fearful plunge of being willing to fundamentally question everything everyone has ever told you.

    Whose side do you think I was on in 2022? The answer might surprise you

    PS:

    Their actions

    Please provide an example of "Russian Expansionism" that was not proceeded by a persecution of Russian speakers by a Western-backed radical right-wing government OR Western attempts to regime change a Russian ally. Ukraine has BOTH

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Have you honestly considered the possibility that the West and Ukraine actually are the villains the Russians have been saying they are all along?

    Have you considered that russia isn't a hero saviour? I know the west has done, and continues to do horrible things, helping Ukraine defend itself from a war mongering russia isn't one of them.

    but you have to take the fearful plunge of being willing to fundamentally question everything everyone has ever told you.

    That's straight up conspiracy bullshit.

    You want me to question that residential schools are bad? You want me to question that the us's actions in Iraq, and Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc are bad? No seriously. Stop suckling at the teat of Eastern propaganda.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    Have you considered that russia isn’t a hero saviour?

    Yes definitely. As I implied in my previous comment, I was previously all-in on the Ukrainian side, checking ISW map every day, donating money etc. I don't believe I changed my view until the last year or so.

    You want me to question that residential schools are bad? You want me to question that the us’s actions in Iraq, and Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc are bad?

    Uhhh...no, I didn't say anything about any of those. I was being imprecise for rhetorical effect but if we need to get specific what I believe you should question are beliefs such as:

    • Western countries are actually and effectively democracies controlled by the people's will
    • Western intelligence agencies are a trustworthy source of information and policy recommendations in the national interest
    • The corporate broadcast media is free and independent and will pursue and report the truth OR that you can consume such media and not be swayed by its propaganda
    • Ukrainian history started in 2022 and we need not consider anything before that
    • If the Russians say it, therefore it is misinformation / false. If the Western Leaders say it, it is Truth in Defense of Freedom etc.

    The invasion is not unprovoked. We have surely dispensed with that propaganda narrative by this point in the conversation right?

    You have mentioned "atrocities" numerous times. If we don't trust the media, then it's a natural step to not trust their reporting on these atrocities as well correct? Most of this will have to wait for the inevitable tribunal but are you at least willing to put all the reporting about "Russian attacks against civilians" in the "suspect" bucket based on the source?

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

    Look, im tired of you pushing Kremlin propaganda. Have a good life, keep on beating that drum

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You deserved it propagandist for tyranny.

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  • [+] [S] -17 points 10 months ago*

    This is the same misguided idealism that will destroy us all. Which nations are just, free and fair in your view? Also if I'm such a propagandist surely you could easily identify the factual error in my posts and enlighten us all?

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

    When your country will be attacked by russia which part would you give them, before your country loose even more land and soldiers?

    This should be posted in !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works or !tankiejerk@piefed.social instead, it would fit better.

    Edit: Just to have a word about the mod action: YDI You clearly wrote only what kremlin says, not an "independent take" or something, and you posted this deliberately to a community heavily supporting the other side. It's at least ragebait.

    And bragging about it's your first post with a 3 years old account, is also bending the truth. You use lemmy, you should know the rules. You frame it like you are a newcomer..

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Fuck meanwhileongrad . While it expose pro russian and pro china people. The mod is a zionist

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    MoG is filled with people who are more anti-left than trying to stop the fascists who actually have power, ran by a racist pos who hates the victims of Gaza. And tried to post gore porn on Lemmy before the admins said no.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Meanwhileongrad is some highschool level clique trolling led by one of the most immature mods on Lemmy. Don't even need a turbolibjerk community, they already parceled themselves up nicely.

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  • [+] [S] -14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    If my country was being ground down in a brutal war of attrition I would want to get out of it as soon as possible, but that's just me. The Ukrainians and their US puppetmasters in Germany are of course free to continue to attrit their forces in PR counteroffensives and hopeless cauldrons. Is that Slava Ukraini?

    Re: MWOG/TJ they don't play fair and I would never waste my time commenting over there. If their arguments are so good, let's have it out on neutral ground (the anarchist servers, aka here)

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [+] [S] -12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I understand the topicality restrictions on YPTB but does that reflect a wider view among the anarchists? In my years on lemmy it appears plain to me that the provision of a neutral space by the anarchist servers is the only thing holding the threadiverse together. Is that not a role that your side wants to have?

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    We're just not interested in turning this community into a political debate club. But if you want to have the debate somewhere then I think I'd be willing to host a non-partisan community here specifically for political debates, if we can work out a suitable set of community rules to keep a lid on the inevitable shit fights. Would that be of interest? Feel free to DM me if you want to discuss the idea.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    You went against the popular narrative, but everything you said has some backing. Mod was an asshole.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Enters Euro-centric space.

    Spreads Russian propaganda.

    Gets instaban.

    Whines and plays victim.

    God, you .ml folks are special. Like, "i hope you wear a helmet to the bathroom" special.

    YDI.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Is European space

    Continental suicide from political capture, propaganda, and an inability to adapt

    Bans anyone who speaks against it

    Ok euros, be free to destroy yourselves 👍

    P.S.: Feel free to point out the obvious factual errors in my comments that I am sure you have identified and are just itching to share with the class

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    TBH the actual problem here is the belief in "europe" and it's ability to "commit suicide".

    For me these are wacky white supremacist talking points.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I don't have a dog in that fight. Some people care a lot about ethnic makeup and assimilation but that's not what I'm talking about at all.

    I'm talking about the European institutions that they built up for themselves over decades literally self-destructing and taking down other parts of other institutions with them.

    For instance, despite the evident failure of the 20 sanctions packages to cripple Russia's economy, the people who were hurt the most were the Europeans themselves. They now pay some of the highest energy prices in the world, when previously they had some of the lowest when they had access to cheap pipeline oil and natural gas from Russia. This is destroying their industrial competitiveness. As a stark example, Volkswagen has stopped production at their main plant for the first time ever.

    As another example: Despite how absolutely essential trust is when building and maintaining a reserve currency, the Europeans are mortgaging decades of credibility by trying to seize the Russian assets. If they ever do do this, we can predict with extreme confidence a nosedive in the forex value of the euro and a corresponding and consequent spike in the yields on all their sovereign debt. Even the willingness to consider and debate such a step has probably already damaged their credibility beyond repair with foreign investors

    Many other examples available if you're still unconvinced.

    That's what I mean by Continental Suicide. The much lauded European Project is eating its own tail, and because it is so awash and propaganda, almost everyone is blind to it

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    YSHSIC: You Should Have Seen It Coming

    OOP is one of these accounts: 3½ years of anti-China & anti-Russia news posts by several similar Lemmy accounts

    Communities like !europe@feddit.org, which host these spammers, are likely to be modded by Western turbolibs who think history began on Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's PTB from the feddit.org admins exactly in the vein of .ml style of calling "misinformation" everything that contradicts their favorite narrative tropes

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