Western media had more of a part in supporting the Maidan protests than the MIC/IC did.
Yes, thank you for a perfect example of someone who doesn't know what an ancap is, and thinks that AnCap = greedy. The money to pay this is coming from US tax dollars, which are all stolen. Stealing money is not anCap compatible. And that's ignoring how often the weapons are used to kill innocents.
No, I do believe there was legitimate unhappiness. But the US assistence was also there. 'Helping' an actual organic belief is more efficient. But the US was still there, doing shit. Which is wrong, btw.
Given that the corporate media does the bidding of the intel agencies of the US, this isn't much of an argument, though I will say I see the difference, I could see how Russia wouldn't.
Hasn't for a very long while. The only reason it lined up was because pouring money into a pit and lighting it on fire, knowing that the USSR had to do the same, was a legitimate military tactic vs actual, practicing communists, as our communism of handing out government contracts was orders of magnitude less onerous than theirs. But now that it isn't, as we aren't facing anyone practicing a command economy but the Norks, it's now back to being a waste of money to waste money.
See, there is no other option. Someone will own the foreign policy, and it won't be 'the common good'. It'll either be people saying leave me alone, got mine, or people saying "we can kill kids for cash". I know which I'll choose.
Seriously, I think this is even more insane than a straight-up "Russia is actually in the right side" argument or whatever the heck Agent23 is spouting. It's like saying I can't give bread to a starving kid because who knows? He might grow up to be the next Hitler!
Oh, I forgot, you are one of those 'taxes are theft' idiots.
Assuming the PLA would be '2/23/22 Russia... but Chicom' is a very dangerous assumption to make, not the least of which because Xinnie and his cabinet have spent the last year observing the war the same as everyone else.
Yes. Some argued the same thing about the brave mujahedeen Osama Bin Laden. It's like goddamn clockwork: everytime we 'help out' we are on the wrong side, or end up doing something horrific, or just fuck up entirely.
Given you are the one who calls for Japan to invade Russia thinking you'll live through WW3, I'll leave the idiocy to you:
Yeah, at least when I'm high off of unicorn farts, I'm still aware that nuclear war is a thing everyone loses.
The problem is that leadership of none of the other, past or aspiring world powers believes that, on the contrary, they would consider it utterly idiotic to believe it.
The current economic system of Russia and China are not much better than those of practicing communists, as numbers show. The West is worsening, but that doesn't change much. They represent more waste of money, and also with less freedoms. The West certainly won't improve if these powers representing even worse option get to dictate the rules in international trade and customs.
There are no karma rewards in world politics. There are power rewards though.
And yet the real mistake there is that USA was not proactive enough in taking down threats and ignored them for too long. Osama... was fitting the meme of "being known to intel services" for quite some time, and not so much for the good stories.
Only in Russian propaganda. Meanwhile it's Russia doing a lot of the stuff that got Hitler his reputation.
The Kuriles are not Russian territory, they are land that was Japanese before WW2, and which the Soviet Union refused to return because they would not sign the treaty ending WW2.
Do you know anything? I don't mean about Ukraine, do you know anything at all?
They are significantly better. Huge orders of magnitude better. You completely underestimate the costs of a planned, centrally controlled economy vs the simple mass theft in Russia today or whatever the fuck China has. Both are shockingly better. Note crucially the lack of mass starvation as a key indicator of this.
... I mean I am an anarchist in morality, if not in practice. But know, you can know stuff about who you are supporting now. Namely, we are supporting Zelensky and the Ukranians, who have known neonazis in their ranks and as units, but by no means the majority of them.
No, that's not necessarily sign of a much better system, just having more resources to waste before the population ends up starving and more international aid and trade being available to save their asses if they push a bit too far anyway. Even the bloody norks, despite keeping the worst of old commie system, merely balance on the edge of famine since 2 decades.
But, to continue the analogy, just because you can't trust the salesman doesn't mean every car on the lot is shit. We have eyes and brains and Russia's actions have been blatantly evil enough that we can draw some reliable conclusions. We know that this is not just another Afghanistan or Vietnam or whatever the fuck.
What really amuses me is how in at least 80% of cases you spot someone who is for "peace", non-interventionism, isolationism and the like and cares about it a lot, if you grill them on the situation they want to argue for staying out of, it's almost never "yeah, godspeed to them, country X sucks, but it's not really our job to kick their asses and we get nothing out of helping make it happen", and it's almost always going to end up with a reveal of belief in various propaganda facts spread by country X or western far left and its pseudo-moralizing, implying that this conclusion is based on a foundation of garbage facts, rather than different, even if silly analysis of the real state of things.
