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  • Europeans ponying up to fund US weapons shipments to Ukraine - Euractiv

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  • The US fucked us so bad. They started this entire shit show by persisting on expanding Nato after the Iraq war, even though Merkel and Sarkozy both said that it would lead to war. Putin stated publicly that Nato expansion would be interpreted as an existential threat, and still the US pushed. They spend billions on pro US propaganda via USAid and the NED (just look up Red lines not to cross Zelenskiy, which is basically an open thread from the US to Ukraine not to sign a peace deal or there would be „civil unrest“).

    And even during the peace talks in Istanbul, they convinced (or coerced) Ukraine not to sign it „hey we’ll have your back you can win this war, trust us, we have never cynically abandoned proxies before“. And now they let the Europeans pay for it and the Ukrainians die for it.

    Yes, Russias attack on Ukraine was illegal, but the war was also preventable. And I have a hard time to believe that the Finlandization of Ukraine would have been worse than the complete destruction of it. Especially for all the man that have been killed or maimed for a preventable and doomed war from the beginning.

  • ugh

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  • If you think this is cowardice then you must not yet have developed object permanence.

    This is the main role of the democratic party, keep the left down and keep the capitalist happy. They will cynically adopt any issue - that doesn’t threaten that prime directive - for a few months, be it black lives matter or trans rights, and then drop them again once it’s no longer convenient.

    But if any real leftist candidate (with huge democratic support and winning based on broadly popular policies), ever comes close to power, all defense mechanisms kick in.

  • The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025

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  • Maybe it’s time to restart some some old Greek traditions and propose a law that anyone proposing chat control - from here on out - gets banished for life from entering European soil ever again.

  • Rule

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  • Francine "Penny" Patterson: She is saying that we are all children of Mother Earth and love is the universal language.

  • Buses are NOT welcome

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  • Ironically the sign indicates that ONLY busses are welcome in that street. A BBBB+ street (+ stands for bus)

  • Europe Must Abandon America To Save Itself

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  • Looking at my username it should be clear that I am not a fan of US imperialism. But, I do think Europe really has to consider how it deals with the security dilemma before it leaves the US security umbrella. At the moment we are still a bunch of nation states with individual armies, individual politics, and following that: individual interests. And especially with nationalism on the rise in almost all of Europe I would rather have a solid answer to the question if European peace was due to „learning from the past“ and the EU, then find out the hard way that it was because of the US safeguarding each country’s sovereignty (and thus breaking the security dilemmas cycle of mistrust).

  • 'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'

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  • Breaking news: oil found in Europe.

  • US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's Gaza offensive

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  • The Nuremberg trials took place in the context of the winner prosecuting the loser. So long as the current US elite (reps and dems) are in power this is never gonna happen. Only if the US decisively loses a war (very unlikely) or some type of revolution takes place (also unlikely but possible), will such trials be possible.

  • Google

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  • That reads like a description of the chatgpt start page. Just a prompt to start a conversation with a (mostly) helpful tool. But the moment they obtain absolute market dominance…

  • Railway network in the United States at the start of the US Civil War

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  • The northern elite also didn’t want to win at the start of the war: the union as it was, constitution as it is (with slavery that is). For the northern elite the south was a source of cheap cotton and an export market for finished goods, winning decisively would break that balance.

    The end of slavery was truly a bottoms up movement, that forced the contradiction to be so great that it could not exist in one country.

    John Dolan (aka the war nerd) has a great series on this subject on his podcast: Radio War Nerd.

  • Israel’s strikes on Iran follow international law, Russia’s war on Ukraine does not - Merkel

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  • Der Führer schützt das Recht.

    It’s a distasteful comparison, but it’s literally the logic here: „We are international law, and international law is us. If we must break international law to protect our interests, then we are protecting international law itself.“

  • Uyghur genocide GOOD

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  • TIL about Russia's plans in Europe and worldwide outlined in Aliksandr Dugin (aka Putin's "Brain")'s book Foundations of Geopolitics

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  • I thought you were done.

  • TIL about Russia's plans in Europe and worldwide outlined in Aliksandr Dugin (aka Putin's "Brain")'s book Foundations of Geopolitics

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  • It is, please reread the thread if you’re not convinced.

    The edits are small wording changes made within minutes of posting them (before you responded to them).

    Great job not sounding like a sore loser. 👌

    Edit: the original posts with my point aren’t even edited.

  • TIL about Russia's plans in Europe and worldwide outlined in Aliksandr Dugin (aka Putin's "Brain")'s book Foundations of Geopolitics

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  • Good point pal.

  • TIL about Russia's plans in Europe and worldwide outlined in Aliksandr Dugin (aka Putin's "Brain")'s book Foundations of Geopolitics

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  • That is the detail that you got stuck on. The question was: is the US culpable in the Palestinian genocide, or is Israel just a third country?

    Watch the news and it should be obvious what the answer is.

  • TIL about Russia's plans in Europe and worldwide outlined in Aliksandr Dugin (aka Putin's "Brain")'s book Foundations of Geopolitics

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  • Would the Palestinian genocide be happening without US support?

  • TIL about Russia's plans in Europe and worldwide outlined in Aliksandr Dugin (aka Putin's "Brain")'s book Foundations of Geopolitics

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  • What little green men do you think man the aircraft carriers, shoot down the missiles, or build the pier that was then used to kill civilians?

    The US army is actively involved on every front of this war/genocide. Not to speak of the intelligence that they are probably providing.

    And yes if you micro optimize the goal posts long enough there is bound to be a difference between Russian involvement in Ukraine before 2022 and Israel. But that is besides the point, the question is: would the Palestinian genocide be happening without direct US support? And the answer is irrefutably no.

  • TIL about Russia's plans in Europe and worldwide outlined in Aliksandr Dugin (aka Putin's "Brain")'s book Foundations of Geopolitics

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  • Saying Israel is not the US is like saying the Ukrainian separatists between 2014 and 2022 where not Russia. Israel gets its weapons, money and international support directly from the US. Without the US Israel would not exist in its current state, and definitely would not be doing what it’s doing right now in Gaza. The US fought the Houthis to defend Israel, and without the US many many more Iranian rockets would have hit. And even if all of this was not the case and Israel was just a normal ally, the difference in response to Russias invasion of Ukraine vs Israels genocide against Palestinians still proves the point.