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I’m hoping you’re just joking. Because if you‘re not, you really don’t understand what’s happening in Ukraine at all.

It’s literally as cringe inducing as people laughing at Russian soldiers getting blown to bits by drone strikes. Please show an ounce of maturity and stop.

The fact that you appear to delight in this is profoundly concerning.

This wouldn’t be the first time a completely hacked off Russian army has come home to overthrow a government. They’ve been sent to die out there, so I wouldn’t blame them.

...which are? I mean, the most Anglo propaganda I know is the stuff that builds up Ukraine to be saintly heroes, and this being a battle between good and evil. I know this to be nonsense. But Ukraine's great crime here lies in wanting to effectively break away from Russia. This is a War for...

Agent23, as a Bulgarian, has his cultural blinders on big time. But that is for a reason and not so much to do with Communism, and more to do with Russia essentially liberating Bulgaria from the Ottomans. So as tsarist liberator and later communist conqueror, what to think of Russia must be...

Yeah. I think Japan could do with a larger army, but the mass conscript force and its influence is gratefully long gone. Although they don’t seem to be nearly as worried with the Navy, which as an Englishman I can only heartily commend.

If anything, it was Saudi Arabia that ought to have been put to the sword for its role in 9/11. Their money was mixed up in it, and a good chunk of the hijackers were Saudis as well. That aside, “nation building” could have worked…if America hadn’t tried to ram liberalism and democracy down...

I was about to ask if his source was fucking Lexicanum, but I've been beaten to the punch on the 40k joke.

I don't know what's more futile. Convincing vatniks that their propaganda is wrong. Or the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

China's misfortune also derives, strangely, from its inexhaustible might and wealth. The Celestial Empire reigned so supreme, so unrivalled, there wasn't really a need to advance or go about colonizing others. The slow rise of Europe, on the other side of the world, was little cause for concern...

Ah, the days when we could do bullshit like that. In fairness, for beating the crap out of those damned Frenchies and the "Batavian Republic" (gags), it was fair payment. Then again, perhaps a little too harsh. Everyone forgets Dutch bluecoats helped defeat Napoleon at Waterloo. As I recall...

Do not underestimate Dutch politicking. Their cunning won them an empire, and allowed the bastards to somehow sail up the River fucking Thames to burn and steal the English Navy. God, that was a bad day at the office for us.

Speaking of soldiers, for what was once a premier military power, I understand the Netherlands doesn't have too many men at arms. Granted, what truly breaks my heart (as an Englishman no less) is what has become of your once mighty navy.

Some pretty bad ones too, but that's just monarchy for you. There's bad apples in any system. Question is, who could realistically claim the dragon throne by this point? I know Mao strangely showed mercy to the last of the Qing, but they were always seen as foreign barbarians and thus not very...

Who said anything about positive change to the government? The current issues, which the totalitarian state cannot address, will end up crashing the People's Republic with no survivors. Suppressing problems do not make them go away. What China looks like after communism, who knows. But I do...

Victims of cancel culture? Absolutely. Murdered for going against the state? Not so much.

As someone who is a proud Briton, I can confirm my government is useless… …and I haven’t been disappeared and/or murdered for criticising it. Let’s not give into hyperbole, regardless of our current unfortunate condition, and accept we could have it a lot worse.

And this doesn’t just concern Russia. Show too much weakness over Ukraine, and China gets all the wrong ideas.

This does seem to be the fundamental issue, doesn't it? Many on the Right, possessed by a cynicism that blossomed during Covid, can only see this through the prism of "globalists trying to control the world" (an amusing reversal of how the left can only see the world in terms of race and power...