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Ha, where is the fabled 'agency' of the Ukrainians now? -- Among the saddest things about this war is that those who champion the independence of Ukra...

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Agreed. Which makes him continuous with every other American president in history.

What, it's funny. They made such a big deal of suspending Russia.

Lmao I was just reminded that the US unilaterally pulled out of the UNHR council back in 2018 only to have rejoined it again in Janurary of this year.

From February, before the war: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/opinion/ukraine-russia-zelensky-putin.html This is common knowledge to anyone who di...

'Tis a silly country. Soon to be either under-water or scorched to a crisp, whichever comes first.

How's that going, exactly? Was this before or after he called for the no-fly zone that would inaugurate the annihilation of life on Earth? And Wiki wo...

"Despite the fact that the American state literally fucks with every nation on Earth thanks to its enormous and inescapable influence and coercive pow...

"Gosh imagine people dedicating their time to speak about the most objectively destructive country and economic system on the planet that has objectiv...

Some interesting Ukrainian/Russian(?) anarchist speculations on what comes after: https://crimethinc.com/2022/04/06/and-after-the-war-the-prospects-fo...

Imagine shilling for state-sponsored professional murderers and telling me my psyche is a wasteland.

They are soldiers who killed your friends and family, or - and this much is guaranteed - supported those killings. I'm not saying they should be kille...

And you're still dull as rocks but that's OK. But really who cares about Ukrainians killing Russians. If you're going to invade another country, expec...

True. It would be better for all the soldiers to murder their commanding officers instead, on all sides, all the way up the chain. The war would end t...

I have zero moral judgement about Ukrainians murdering, in whatever way they see fit, Russian aggressors.

Brutal state oppression from authoritarian police regime: https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1511850256450740226 But I'm sure the American boo...

The US wants to persecute Putin at the ICC. What, the same body they threaten every time they dare raise the prospect of investigating American war cr...

Politics is not ethics recast this is the most pernicious idea in all of philosophy and one day we will burn all of Rawls to the ground and everything...

As much as I would like to believe this I would not frame things in these terms. For one, it assumes the EU gives a damn about trading with tyrants. A...

Some interesting debates in good left spaces about the best way to respond to events in Ukraine: Alex Callinicos - The Great Power Grab: https://socia...

:up: This would be my approach too.

What do you reckon? Yay or nay to sending them over?

"A nuclear power is waging war in another country. I don't need to know what they have to say at all, or consider motivation or interest. This is a ve...

To be fair I don't think many of those who repeat the 'return to the USSR' line mean much by it other than a certain kind of ~vibe~, something vaguely...

"Stop being mean to Western imperialists waaaaa"

:up: "I'm just here to express my moral indignation and repeat verbatim the lines fed to me by most Western media" "That is right take!"

I still cannot get over how completely, totally, utterly garbage this fucking 'letter' is. Like it still makes me annoyed just thinking about it. So, ...

I appreciate that you lack basic literacy skills but you did not have to announce it so loudly to the world. Ah yes the 'ol "secretly aspiring for com...

You don't even need to cite Syria. The monstrous piece of shit that is Hillary Clinton already suggested it in the context of this war: https://twitte...

Incorrect.

Oh the question was facetious. The answer is because Trump supporters are walking slime molds with about as many neural connections.

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1508820090631905280 -- Also imagine thinking voting means anyone in the West lives in anything remotely like a ...

"In the US view, this is not a short-term adjustment to regroup, but a longer-term move as Russia comes to grips with failure to advance in the north....

With a straight face - this entire thing was the worst piece of trash I have read since the invasion started. Imagine some Anglo piece of shit in his ...

Biden's budget proposal: 10% increase in military; 11% increase in federal law enforcement; 13% increase for ICE. Biden wants $8.1 billion for ICE, wh...

omg can we not engage the 15 year old internet fascist

Would prefer no propaganda.

Zizek's invocation of the 'post-modern father' comes to mind: Western propaganda is of the latter type.

Meanwhile when mass child murderers like Madeleine Albright drop dead, people in the West really are sad about it.

Disturbing but not surprising.

Hey look it's that one time from the NYT in 2015 when Obama decided that unlike in other situations he would not continue to be a war criminal!: https...

The wonderful thing about Western propagandists is that it's propagandists really believe the shit they say. And it's all the more pernicious - along ...

Lol.

God, just read Perry Anderson's 2015 NLR essay on Russia and it is the best 'take' of all the millions of post-invasion word spew out there. Some high...

Hey you asked the question. Am happy to ignore you entirely next time.

Because this war is a video game for you.

My point exactly. But of course, my other point of course is that I don't think people like you give a shit about the latter question.

Oh, the thought experiment is a comment on the spectators, not a prediction about how things may turn out. By the by, I think I agree with you.

If Russia remains in Ukraine for the next 10 years, murdering its citizens, destroying its infrastructure, and (further) killing it's economy, I wonde...