nohaybanda [he/him]

Purely defensive pact btw

All in the interests of Europe btw

I’m sorry, I’ll only discuss my true feelings on geopolitics with people who declare for proletarian revolution and call for a protracted people’s war against global Capital along Maoist third-worldist lines.

Fuck outa here, dipshit. Engange or disengage, your call. I couldn’t tell you where the block person button is, never used it in the five years I’ve had this account, but I’m sure you already know. Feel free to crawl back to whatever hugbox you usually inhabit and brag how you karate-chopped a battalion of Putin’s strongest cyborg posters or something.

I’m guessing they’re fruitlessly trying to use the Socratic method to make you critically examine the wild claims you’re making. Even if a victory for Ukraine were still possible as you say, this in no way means Putin is all but defeated and just hiding it. The Russians are not “banking” on Trump pulling back from Ukraine or the EU being unable to meaningfully contribute - both of those things were fully expected a year ago and we can clearly observe right now. Waging a bloody war of attrition until a more favorable geopolitical situation arrives is precisely the stratagem at play here, and is certainly not what losing looks like.

Unless you’re willing to say right here that Russia is an aggressor nation and that the nation, along with its authoritarian leader Putin, is completely in the wrong,

Y’all get that this isn’t a cartoon, right? Finding out who the “bad guy” is doesn’t mean they’re going to lose. Every single one of these things you wrote can be true about Putin and Russia and it still wouldn’t budge the situation on the ground at all, your condemnation isn’t magic. You can certainly take your ball and leave if you don’t want to talk to people with a different analysis, but you can’t go to Narnia.

Damn, you’re right! I guess we can’t rule out Commodore Perry and the unequal trade treaties being Trump’s fault either.

At least it has become one thanks to piss hair.

TIL Trump made Japan sign the Plaza Accord

2-3% is not small or inconsequential when you’re the worlds largest export economy. The reason China is well placed to take this hit is because unlike the US they’re very methodical and measured in the moves they make, and the party has command of the economy.

to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine.

The UN has, on a few occasions, voted to sanctioned war as lawful and justified. The resolution to condemn Nazism is absolutely not that, and it is pure bullshit to claim it would be functionally the same.