The US being on the wrong side of every conflict is a pretty good reason to think it’s on the wrong side of this one, too. The US needs to be defeated. Besides, we can’t fight the whole world at once.

And it was already far too late to rely on influencing elections (and it’s not like Russia is uncontested - do you think the US doesn’t influence elections? ) because Ukraine was already at war with separatists in the Donbas. Russia intervened because the war was already ongoing, their options were either to invade or open the borders to refugees (and that would have caused a lot of other problems that Russia couldn’t handle). Ukraine didn’t just have neonazis. They were in the government, passing nazi policies, doing nazi things.

The equivalent would be if Mexico attacked the US for ICE putting people in concentration camps and gunning them down in the streets.

But I want to believe. 😞

Sort of. If law enforcement already knows the information that would be unlocked by the password they can compel you to unlock it through the “foregone conclusion” exception. They can also compel you to unlock a fingerprint scanner.

I believe Russia is right not just according to Russian sources, but from my understanding of empire. The US is usually on the wrong side of every conflict with only a couple notable exceptions that happened before my parents were even born, I see no reason to assume this is any different. It’s that momentum of history plus non-Western sources that convinced me.

And I’m certainly not going to convince you, we’ve both made up our minds, but we weren’t talking about that.

We were assuming what I’m saying is true i.e. that Russia is intervening to stop the Banderite NATO puppet regime from enacting a genocide of ethnic Russians. If we assume that is true, then Russia must be supported in this specific conflict even if they’re still reactionary on many fronts and still a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Do you disagree?

Russia isn’t some bastion of goodness or something. They have many internal contradictions that need to be resolved before they get my uncritical support. I merely see them as the lesser evil in this conflict, because they are opposed to the US empire.

Don’t you believe in supporting the lesser evil?

smdh the boyz forgot to paint themselves blue for good luck

The ones on the hook for those loans are the data centers and the banks. Samsung already got its money - no refunds.

The question remains, why Ukraine and not a more influential country first?

Ukraine is literally right next door, and was in the process of starting a genocide on Russia’s border. That’s significant.

And again, even assuming that what you said is true… Do you really, actually believe that this would be fighting against the nazis, not just fighting exclusively for the interest of Russian people? If those alleged nazi Ukrainians were killing Americans instead of Russians, Russia would do the same? It’s all about personal gain, there is nothing about fighting fascism here.

It’s both, nations always act in their own interests. It’s not a charity.

But do you believe Russia should have just stood idly by and let a genocide against ethnic Russians happen? Do you think they even could? Their own people demanded action, they had families in Ukraine that were in danger and needed Russian support.

There’s most of the western world supporting a genocidal Israel.

Worth noting, Russia is supporting Iran in their struggle against a genocidal Israel.

And let’s push the argument then. There are nazis in Ukraine, so the country deserves to be invaded. There are nazis all throughout Europe (actually a big current problem), so Putin should invade all of Europe, possibly the whole world.

The neonazis in Ukraine were both in positions of power and engaged in the beginning of a genocide against ethnic Russians living in Ukraine. That’s not quite the same as there just being neonazi street gangs or something.

The US getting what it deserves will never not be funny.

Not me! I cling to my flesh as though it will not decay and fail me!

No, like, now all those political commentators just took a hit to their reputations. This made them look stupid, too.

A nice pretty rake was set out in front of them and then they all lined up to step on it, one after another.

What was the point?

If they weren’t stupid, why did Platner’s campaign collapse so stupidly?

I never realized it gave off such “don’t talk to me or my son ever again” energy.

Iran can keep the strait closed even if the US goes all out, all flattening Iran would do is ensure the strait stays closed long enough for the oil reserves to run out. The US has to know this. The question is if they’re stupid enough to do it anyway.

Law enforcement are people too, sort of.

Usually people with really bad politics.

Are they more or less accurate than a trained human legal expert?

Does that matter? It’s not like cops are legal experts.

It’s a political statement, and people get really fucking mad about politics.

He’s not sure why there’s a popular saying about a specific district in northern Thailand, but whatever, he’s not a word-ologist.