Putin questions legality of Ukrainian government
Putin questions legality of Ukrainian government
Vladimir Zelensky’s rule is unconstitutional, Putin said while meeting with his Belarusian counterpartRT
"Ummm actually, both things can be bad."
"Uhh sweety, both things can be bad actually."
"Have you considered that hypothetically China bad."
"Both things are bad, unlike you tankies we can critise all types of imperialism...
You know more than one country can be dangerous, inhumane and unjust, right?
You know that being from a country doesn't automatically mean you agree with everything that country's government does, right?
You are from that country, tho. So do something about that or shut up about the foreigners.
Not to mention, "Tiananmen Square massacre" is a fabrication from US and their UK media lackeys in the same way they fabricated the beheaded babies and the Nayirah testimony and literally too many instances to name.
What happened was a violent clash between the government and US sponsored terrorists trying to hijack a wide-tent protest which dissipated quickly after the violence started. The US kills and has continued to kill more people than that on a weekly basis for decades, without even the veneer of legitimate self defense. Kent State massacre, the entirety of COINTELPRO, MOVE bombings, the killing of the Ferguson protesters.
There's one person in jail RIGHT NOW for every 200 in the US. Cops kill black and latino people on camera, unprovoked, following horrible displays of cruelty, then flaunt it in your face that you're gonna pay for them to do it again.
Shut up about china or anywhere else in the world that isn't funded by your government fr.
You are from that country, though. So do something about that.
Are you assuming I haven't because no one has stepped in and singlehandedly fixed all of the US's problems? What are you expecting?
shut up about the foreigners.
You mean foreign governments. I have no issue with any group of "foreigners", just the governments that brutalize them.
Speaking of, why are you talking about America at all, while telling people to "shut up about the foreigners".
Speaking of, why are you talking about America at all, while telling people to "shut up about the foreigners".
Peak gringo deflection. Because unlike USians speaking about countries they're actively, openly sabotaging, the rest of the world should be able to criticize the one government trying to fuck us all in the pursuit of having everything for its ruling class forever. I'll stop talking about the US the moment y'all fuck off and stop stealing all our wealth through your financial and military apparatus, or spreading torture and terror through proxies because it's "the strategy" only to use it as an excuse to talk about us like animals. I'd be happy to never again remember your shit stain of a country.
It isn't just the government, it's also the fact that the US is the world's imperial hegemon, and a settler-colonial state. There's a large portion of workers bribed by the spoils of imperialism and settler-colonialism into complacency with the status quo, or even enthusiastic support. The oppressed black, chicano, indigenous, and other nations within the US are in general not just fucked over by the capitalists and state, but by their fellow workers.
It's important that we identify the core issues with the US Empire, and that we don't white-wash its genuine problems away and push them all on the state or the bourgeoisie. The working class needs to unite, but to truly do so, we have to recognize and align on anti-imperialism and decolonization, both of which require a large portion of the working class to work against their own class interests.
What happened was a violent clash between US sponsored terrorists trying to hijack a wide-tent protest which dissipated quickly after the violence started.
Can you support this claim with evidence?
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More than thirty years later, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 remain a touchstone of a Western mythology spun to challenge the fundamental legitimacy of the Communist Party of China.Qiao Collective
Presidents of Russia and Belarus: Neither Ukraine nor the EU has any sovereignty
Presidents of Russia and Belarus: Neither Neither Ukraine nor the EU has any sovereignty: EADaily
EADaily, August 1st, 2025. No one has political sovereignty . The European Union, neither There is no Ukraine at all now.EADaily
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tldr answer: yes. They're in for a shock once they find out that Europe likes doing what the US wants.
ted talk answer:
They're saying this as a projection. Europeans generally tend to believe that EU countries are independent, sovereign and in control even when the US routinely puts them in their place and reminds them who's at the bottom licking the boot.
They will fingerwag, they will clutch pearls, they will be be perfunctory in the hopes to create an image that they have the bargaining chips in "negotiations" with the US, but inspite of it all, so long as the living conditions in Europe are good enough for the Europeans, and as long as wars, genocides, resource expropriation, modern-day slavery, comprador installations and other forms of imperialism applied on the Global South helps to refill their coffee mugs in the morning, and as long none of that is happening in the same manner to them, they won't mind being the US' dog for the foreseeable future.
They will fingerwag, they will clutch pearls, they will be be perfunctory in the hopes to create an image that they have the bargaining chips in “negotiations” with the US, but inspite of it all, so long as the living conditions in Europe are good enough for the Europeans, and as long as wars, genocides, resource expropriation, modern-day slavery, comprador installations and other forms of imperialism applied on the Global South helps to refill their coffee mugs in the morning, and as long none of that is happening in the same manner to them, they won’t mind being the US’ dog for the foreseeable future.
this could easily describe the people of the global north.
High-Speed Strike Weapon Capable of Reaching NATO Bases Within Minutes Now Deployed
Moscow’s New 'Oreshnik' Missile Can Reach NATO in Minutes
Russia has officially launched mass production and military deployment of its new ‘Oreshnik’ hypersonic missile system, a strategic weapon designed to reach NATO targets in under 20 minutesPetr Ermilin (Pravda English)
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Thankfully, I've only ever had to dole out some periodic dewormers (the yearly "just in case" ones), and only when the vet couldn't see us for that. It was an adventure every time, though!
Mum was a wiz at meat wrapping! I never understood what she did differently, but she was always one-and-done!
Keep our Apple data encrypted
Keep our Apple data encrypted
It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud. Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure.38 Degrees
FWIW the transition is :
- rely on OS default hosting, e.g iCloud
- disable iCloud and use another "cloud" provider
- self-host as cloud provider
- give up on Apple devices entirely, and go on to remove any other device that tries to do so
- enjoy, help others to do the same
Arch Linux Users at Risk Again as AUR Hit by Another RAT
Arch Linux Users at Risk Again as AUR Hit by Another RAT
A new pest appears in the Arch User Repository.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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Yeah but thats not really steamOS using the aur.
SteamOS using the aur would be unlocking the root folder, doing a pacman update and then using the AUR which I assume very very few users do.
I only mention this because everytime arch is mentioned steamOS gets dragged up as if its the same thing when they're worlds apart.
Using the AUR via distrobox can be done on every distro.
Yes but thats not relevant. Its like me saying windows users dont use the AUR and then you saying um actually im on windows and I run arch in a VM and use the AUR. Like ok thats still the AUR being used on arch.
Like the topic is AUR malware and someone was like arch users and steamOS users. But steamOS users dont need to be worried or lumped in because they aren't using the aur unless they're also using arch through vm or distrobox or whatever.
Am I making sense?
Belarus creates special operations brigade in region bordering Ukraine
Belarus creates special operations brigade in region bordering Ukraine
Major-General Vadim Denisenko emphasized the strategic importance of strengthening the southern sector, describing it as the most tense and unpredictable areaTASS
Pokrovsk on the Brink: Ukrainian Lines Shatter as Russians Enter The Streets
Pokrovsk on the Brink: Ukrainian Lines Shatter as Russians Enter The Streets
The thunder of Russian artillery echoes through the streets of Pokrovsk as the city teeters on the brink of collapse....Anonymous103 (South Front)
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Wall Street opens lower as Trump tariffs and weak jobs report hit global markets
Employment growth across America has been much weaker than previously thought over the last three months – a sign that the US labor market may be cooling.
The latest non-farm payroll, just released, shows that US employment rose by just 73,000 in July, rather weaker than the 110,000 new jobs expected.
But the big shock comes in the latest revisions to payrolls, with previous estimates for both May and June being revised sharply lower.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics now estimates that just 19,000 new jobs were created in May, 125,000 fewer than the 144,000 previously estimated.
Wall Street falls as Trump tariffs and weak jobs report hit global markets – as it happened
Just 73,000 jobs created in July, and employment in May and June was 258,000 lower than previously reportedGraeme Wearden (The Guardian)
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Putin offers no hint of concessions as he says he wants ‘stable’ peace in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has said he wants a “lasting and stable peace” in Ukraine but given no indication that he is willing to make any concessions to achieve it, after a week in which Russian missiles and drones again caused death and destruction across Ukraine.
“We need a lasting and stable peace on solid foundations that would satisfy both Russia and Ukraine, and would ensure the security of both countries,” said Putin, speaking to journalists on Friday, a week before a new deadline imposed by Donald Trump for hostilities to cease.
Trump has said if Russia and Ukraine do not come to an agreement to end the war by next Friday, 8 August, he will impose a package of economic sanctions on Russia.
Before he took office, Trump had promised to end the war in 24 hours, but since he became president his repeated overtures to Putin have achieved minimal results. In recent weeks, Trump has markedly changed his rhetoric on the conflict, appearing less conciliatory to Putin and more amenable to enhanced support for Ukraine. He called Russia’s continued attacks on civilian areas “disgusting” on Thursday.
Putin offers no hint of concessions as he says he wants ‘stable’ peace in Ukraine
Russian president’s remarks come as Kyiv rescuers find more than a dozen dead in apartment block after strikesShaun Walker (The Guardian)
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Donald Trump issues threat to Canada over "statehood of Palestine" move
President Donald Trump has said that Canada's support for a Palestinian state will make any trade deal between Washington and Ottawa "very hard."
In a post on Truth Social, Trump referred to comments made by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada was planning to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.
Trump wrote: "Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh' Canada!!!"
Donald Trump Issues Threat To Canada Over 'Statehood of Palestine' Move
President Donald Trump says Canada's support for a Palestinian state will make any trade deal between Washington and Ottawa "very hard."Brendan Cole (Newsweek)
Donald Trump issues threat to Canada over "statehood of Palestine" move
President Donald Trump has said that Canada's support for a Palestinian state will make any trade deal between Washington and Ottawa "very hard."
In a post on Truth Social, Trump referred to comments made by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada was planning to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.
Trump wrote: "Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh' Canada!!!"
Donald Trump Issues Threat To Canada Over 'Statehood of Palestine' Move
President Donald Trump says Canada's support for a Palestinian state will make any trade deal between Washington and Ottawa "very hard."Brendan Cole (Newsweek)
What Can a Cell Remember?
What Can a Cell Remember? | Quanta Magazine
A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is.Claire L. Evans (Quanta Magazine)
Russia launches 6,400 drones, missiles into Ukraine in record-breaking month
Russia launches 6,400 drones, missiles into Ukraine in record-breaking month
The scale of Russia's nightly strikes has been steadily increasing.David Brennan (ABC News)
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Report Shows 'Financial Insecurity Is Widespread and Runs Deep' in Trump Economy
The Century Foundation commissioned a survey last month with polling firm Morning Consult and found that roughly 6 in 10 Americans say that Trump's policies are to blame for their current financial struggles. However, the report also emphasized that Americans' "financial insecurity is widespread and runs deep," and that their concerns stretch back well before Trump's second term.
"More than 4 in 5 Americans (83%) are concerned about the price of groceries, with nearly half (46%) saying they are very concerned," writes the Century Foundation. "Nearly half (47%) of Americans are worried about their current ability to pay their rent or mortgage. And nearly two-thirds (64%) worry about their ability to pay an unexpected medical expense if one should arise. Nearly half of all Americans (48%) believe they would have difficulty paying an unexpected $500 bill without borrowing."
These anxieties were particularly strong among younger Generation Z voters, as well as among Black and Latino voters across all age demographics.
Report Shows 'Financial Insecurity Is Widespread and Runs Deep' in Trump Economy
"Trump's two flagship economic initiatives—his tariffs and the One Big Beautiful Bill—are not perceived as helping the economy," said an analyst for the pollster YouGov.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
Hunger in Gaza reaches 'tipping point' under Israel's offensive as children face lifelong impacts
Gaza hunger reaches 'tipping point' as children suffer malnutrition
Starvation in Gaza under Israel’s assault has reached a “tipping point,” with deaths expected to soar if Palestinians do not get urgent relief, while many children who survive will now face lifelong consequences.Chantal Da Silva (NBC News)
What's going on with Firefox?
Second try, shorter and less confusing than before:
* DNSoverHttps interfering with my DNS block
* shown to be enabled in about:policies
* set to disabled in policies.json as well as in about:settings.
The picture shows a console window witch the respective policies.json key being set to false (disabled), while the about:policies firefox page in the background shows DoT to be enabled.
Version is 140.1.0esr on Artix (Arch). Anyone can confirm?
Edit: It's not a broken profile; same happens in a fresh one.
/etc and not the user settings from ~/.configlike this
Looks right to me. Does Firefox require a reboot on Linux to recognise newly added keys? (It does on Windows with the registry)
La chiesa favolosamente ornata in grado d'incarnare il sincretismo della religione armena - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
La chiesa favolosamente ornata in grado d'incarnare il sincretismo della religione armena - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Oltre l’alto portale in pietra, il visitatore viene trasportato in un piano d’esistenza memorabile, dove ogni scorcio dello sguardo incontra e viene incentivato ad assorbire il sacro.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34000758
Rashid Khalidi
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDTColumbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossibleRashid Khalidi (The Guardian)
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34000758
Rashid Khalidi
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDTColumbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossibleRashid Khalidi (The Guardian)
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossibleRashid Khalidi (The Guardian)
In the United States, what makes a 'libertarian' right wing?
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34000402
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the Israel-Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the Israel-Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
Rashid Khalidi, in open letter published by the Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlementDani Anguiano (The Guardian)
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34000402
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the Israel-Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the Israel-Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
Rashid Khalidi, in open letter published by the Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlementDani Anguiano (The Guardian)
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the Israel-Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.
Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
Rashid Khalidi, in open letter published by the Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlementDani Anguiano (The Guardian)
El Salvador Changes Constitution, Ending Term Limits for Nayib Bukele
El Salvador’s National Assembly on Thursday approved sweeping changes to the nation’s Constitution, paving the way for President Nayib Bukele, who is in his second term in office, to run for re-election indefinitely.
The legislature, in which Mr. Bukele’s party holds a supermajority, voted to end presidential term limits and extend a president’s term in office from five years to six, according to the National Assembly's X account.
Mr. Bukele was first elected in 2019 and successfully ran in 2024 for a second term, even though legal scholars said at the time that El Salvador’s Constitution barred a president from serving consecutive terms. After Mr. Bukele’s legislative allies installed new judges on the Supreme Court, the court reinterpreted the Constitution and cleared the way for the president to run again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/world/americas/el-salvador-bukele-term-limits.html
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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Emma Graham-Harrison
Chief Middle East correspondent
Thu 31 Jul 2025 10.49 EDT
“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.Cogat, the Israeli agency that still controls aid shipments to Gaza, calculated then that Palestinians needed an average minimum 2,279 calories per person per day, which could be provided through 1.836kg of food.
Today, humanitarian organisations are asking for an even smaller minimum ration: 62,000 metric tonnes of dry and canned food to meet basic needs for 2.1 million people each month, or around 1kg of food per person per day.
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed inEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
Iran demands US compensation for war damage before any talks
Iran will not return to nuclear negotiations unless the United States agrees to provide compensation for damages sustained during last month’s war, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Financial Times.
"They should explain why they attacked us in the middle of... negotiations, and they have to ensure that they are not going to repeat that," Araghchi said in an interview published on Thursday.
The official added that the US must take responsibility for striking Iran during ongoing diplomatic exchanges and that talks cannot resume without financial redress.
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Virginia Giuffre’s family expresses shock over Trump saying Epstein ‘stole’ her
The family of Virginia Giuffre, who was among Jeffrey Epstein’s most well-known sex trafficking accusers, said that it was shocking to hear President Donald Trump say the disgraced financier “stole” Giuffre from him and urged that Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, remain in prison.
Giuffre, who had accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by Epstein, has been a central figure in conspiracy theories tied to the case. She died by suicide this year.
Her family’s statement is the latest development involving Epstein, who took his own life in a New York jail in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges, and the Republican president, who was his one-time friend. Trump denied prior knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and said he cut off their relationship years ago, but he still faces questions about the case.
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in reply to jackeroni • • •Oh no!
Anyway,....
IsoKiero
in reply to jackeroni • • •queermunist she/her
in reply to IsoKiero • • •Russians would revolt if he did this.
Whatever you think of the war, they really believe they are fighting against NATO expansion and neonazi repression of ethnic Russian in the annexed regions. This is a popular war, at least in Russia.
They'd support peace talks, of course, but they have demands too that have to be met.
IsoKiero
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •I highly doubt that there would be any revolting, but if there is it's all created by current leadership in Russia. They have all the resources and at least used to have one of the most advanced scientists on multiple fronts, massive culture and every other possibility to be an absolute global superpower with very few who could've challenged that.
But instead they threw that all away, didn't push their country forward to prosperity and instead let the selected few raid and rape the country. And now with the war in Ukraine, over million russians are either dead or wounded, economy crumbles and the whole empire is starting to fall.
Nothing has changed since second world war in there and seems like nothing will.
queermunist she/her
in reply to IsoKiero • • •First off, no nation on Earth can brainwash people into supporting an unpopular war. Their support isn't something Putin conjured from nothing and it's not something he could make go away. His people believe NATO will do to Russia what it did to Libya because NATO is imperialist. They also believe that Ukrainian neonazis are going to kill all Russian speakers, and the Russian speakers that live in the annexed regions are the ones telling them this.
Also... did you forget the USSR existed and was a global superpower? They were the first ones to space! They went to the Moon! Fuck off with this racist screed about how Russians are some kind of backwards idiot nation.
IsoKiero
in reply to queermunist she/her • • •Obviously not. That's what I'm referring to, they had all the means to prosper. Crapload of our everyday things on medicine, power technology, engineering in general and a lot of other things are built on top of what USSR came up with. And even after USSR fell there was still all the possibilities for Russian Federation to grow and prosper but their leadership chose not to. With their natural resources alone, when managed sensibly, they could absolutely dominate the US and seriously challenge China.
But they have brainwashed people making the war popular in the first place. Creating enemies out of thin air, like claiming Ukraine with their jewish president is a nazi regime, is something Russia (and USSR) have been doing for centuries. Instead of improving their own country they just create distrust and destruction.
Russian people (at least the ones I know) are generous and hospitable. But Russia as a nation is really idiotic as they could just have it all. Practical global market domination with oil, forestry and agriculture, a crapload of minerals to refine and (once) some of the smartest humans around to advance their technology but instead of that they chose basically violence on multiple fronts.
queermunist she/her
in reply to IsoKiero • • •The destruction of the USSR wasn't an accident caused by being an idiot nation. Their underdevelopment was the result of the Cold War! It was destroyed, it didn't just spontaneously collapse.
They had everything they needed to prosper and were attacked relentlessly for it.
jackeroni
in reply to IsoKiero • • •IsoKiero
in reply to jackeroni • • •There's no nazi regime and never has been one in Ukraine, unless you want to claim that natzi party actually ruled in Ukraine around 1940. No one, nazi or otherwise, was threatening Russia, Putin just has his obsession of the Soviet Union glory (whatever that means on him) and that's caused immense suffering and continues to do so every day.
I hope they're playing swan song soon on your television and radio once again.
jackeroni
in reply to IsoKiero • • •IsoKiero
in reply to jackeroni • • •Ukrainian people protesting against joining Russia and moving further away from EU was US operation to overthrow sitting president? Yeah, right.
US had nothing to do with it. If anything, Russia helped the whole thing to happen, or maybe even created it, by pushing against Ukrainian parliament and opinion of Ukrainian people.
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in reply to jackeroni • • •MacStache
in reply to jackeroni • • •I question the legality of Russian government.
How about them apples, Puttyput?