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Oh oh what is the diagnosis? Asking for a friend who has this symptom

Does it matter?

Yes officer, we simulated invading the house multiple times but we spent at least 3 times as much effort simulating how we would defend and against them coming out of their house to attack us.

The joint drills in question are literally simulations of invading the North, and the simulation is essentially a game of chicken where the US and its occupied territories act like they’re going to invade but say “no no. It’s just an exercise” and the North has to respond every single time by preparing for it as if it’s a real invasion because it is essentially one real-time order away from being an actual invasion

Funnelling weapons into the losing side of a war is how you get a forever war that devastates the losing side. The West has done it for years. They are killing Ukraine with this strategy.

The idea that Russia isn’t serious about peace sort of flies in the face of the last 30 years of Russian diplomacy. Since 1992, Russia has only had military conflicts with a handful of countries and only at their borders and never to occupy or ethnically cleanse. In the same time, the US has had military conflicts with over a dozen countries none of them around their border, with some countries completely devastated and leveled, at lease one active genocide, and with massive extractive occupation. Russia spent the 90s and early 2000s trying to join NATO to establish a framework of mutual security with the West and the West not only refused but basically strung them along saying that maybe someday if they’re good. Eventually Russia realized the West has no intention of establishing mutual security and now we’re here, where Russia is running out of options if it wants national security.

Security assessments from Western intelligence organizations has repeatedly stated that Russia is not discussing, is not planning, and has not the capacity to invade and occupy all of Ukraine, or any more of Europe. The idea that Russia is just trying to win territory and then it’ll just keep doing it is the premise of Command and Conquer: Red Alert, not a serious assessment of the reality of Russian capabilities and plans.

The path to peace was exactly what Russia was asking for over decades - a mutual security framework. All security is mutual. The reason France and England are at peace with each other is because they have a security framework that incorporates the security needs of both countries. The reason Europe and Russia are not at peace is precisely because the European security framework excludes Russian security needs and does so knowingly and explicitly. How many times have we heard “Russia cannot decide who gets to join NATO”. That’s literally saying “Russia has no legitimate national security concerns that we have to take seriously”. In essence, Europe cares if Europe feels threatened by Russia, but Europe does not care if Russia feels threatened by Europe. That imbalance is the cause of the conflict.

So yes, if we want peace, the answer is to stop the fighting, and the fighting would have stopped over a year ago if the West had stopped propping up Ukraine with weapons, but also, the fighting would not have even started if the West hadn’t been bringing in weapons and military and nuclear readiness to Ukraine in the first place. So it’s sort of silly to say the West should stop arming Ukraine to end the war because the war exists because the West was arming Ukraine in order to create the conditions for war in the first place.

It is the West that is untrustworthy here.

You do realize that the continuous supply of ammo, fuel, and spare parts would have so much more of an effect than literally any other thing you could do, right?

She is a Nazi, and she is supporting Ukraine. That’s commensurate. And the fascist regimes want her endorsement because she has a following, which means she’s figured a propaganda position that works for a meaningful amount of the population

Fuck, world war 3 is metastisizing

There is no way to avoid your writing getting copied if its in digital form because even on a single device it must make copies of it in order to function. So your choices are a) encrypt it or b) don’t digitize it.

There is no historical evidence that the theory works.

The words social democracy and democratic socialism have swapped definitions and started the same and have been translated variously. It’s even more confusing than the word histories of socialism and communism.

My understanding of social democracy in the contemporary meaning is liberal capitalist society with substantial concessions to the working class for quality of life, while democratic socialism is a movement to end liberal capitalism via the ballot box.

A theory that’s been mostly disproven

Absolutely correct. I just find that leaning in to the real history makes smearing it as a sheepdog and as a psyop somewhat more effective

Not that I am aware of.

Yes and also no. Yes because that is clearly the role it plays in the US. But no in the sense that it is a name for a specific theory of action, the theory that you can achieve socialism through voting instead of through a coup (even a bloodless one) or a civil/revolutionary war.

ACAB is an abolitionist slogan. People are not cops. People play the role of cop. Abolish the role of cop, the people remain. Similar to slave owner. We abolished private slave ownership without killing or imprisoning all of the slave owners.

ACAB says there is no cop that is worth keeping, that is to say every role from patrol to detective to chief to sherrif to SWAT to FBI… All the cops are bastards. Abolish the cops.

It’s not ironic at all. It’s exactly what one would expect from the longest running and largest empire in the history of humanity.

Needs more US and NATO bombing Libya complete with Obama and Hillary faces

The claim is that Ukraine knowingly and openly integrated Nazi militias into its formal military structure and openly celebrate historical figures who knowingly and openly collaborated with Nazis.

This is sort of public record and you can just go look it up. It’s real.

Why talk about it? To get people to realize what’s actually happening, which is that Ukraine is being used as a Western proxy as part of their never ending project to subjugate Russia and turn it into a resource colony. You see, prior to 2014, Ukraine was called a corrupt state with a president who was a Russian puppet. They wouldn’t work with the West to allow the West to continue its military expansion. But after that president was ousted, now it is said that Ukraine is “free and democratic” and of course with Russia being evil that’s why Russia hates the new Ukraine.

But the reality is that the West couldn’t ever convince Ukraine to politically become a proxy for the West until the Ukrainian far-right and their collaborative liberals became the dominant power, driven mostly by desire to participate in the super profits of empire. But how can we counter the propaganda from the West? Well, we have to show evidence that Ukraine is actually dominated and shot through by far-right interests. And guess what we find? Literal Nazis.

And of course, for so many Westerners, that doesn’t make sense. Why would the USA, who fought the Nazis, support the rise of Nazi support in their own proxy?

And of course, there’s 2 complimentary answers to that. The first is that the Third Reich was openly and programmatically organized around destroying the USSR and subjugating Russia. The Nazis and collaborators all across Europe, including in Ukraine, have a militant anti-Russian culture. So, if you’re the West and you want any Eastern European country to agree to participate in extending the Western military threat against Russia even if it means triggering a war, well, your best bet is to get the Nazis and their collaborators in that country into power. So from a simple pragmatism, the West can more easily manipulate Nazis into harms way.

But the second reason is that the West isn’t really anti-Nazi. The ruling classes of the West were all in on the Third Reich, Hitler, and Mussolini. They were getting super rich working with them to build out their war machines and supporting systems. IBM, Ford, Chase… The richest of the rich were all over Germany to build the systems that would ultimately become the most deadly war machine on the continent in history. The US had a massive Nazi culture with rallies and political organizations and summer camps. That stuff didn’t go away. It mostly just went underground. It was the USSR that defeated the Nazis, destroying 80% of the Third Reich and marching all the way through Berlin. The “Allies” basically just prevented the USSR from liberating Western Europe. While the Red Army was destroying the Nazis, the US was working with the Vatican to establish ratlines to spirit away 10k Nazis to safety to avoid war crimes hearings, integrate them into the West, give them jobs, property, protection, and sometimes fake identities (Operation Paperclip). They then build NATO and staffed it with Nazi officers. And then they use NATO to organize Nazis, neo-nazis, and collaborators into covert terrorist cells called “leave-behind armies” that they armed, organized, coordinated, trained, and funded with the intention of using them to fight the USSR if they could ever get the opportunity. (Operation Gladio)

So, reminding people that Ukraine is openly integrating Nazis into their military, government, culture, history, and narratives is not just an attempt to shake the support people like you have for Ukraine in this conflict, but to show the unbroken line of history that connects the Nazis of the Third Reich and the European program to destroy Russia with the current conflict involving all of the same actors, movements, programming, narratives, etc.

More conspiracies

Sure, but that’s why we are the only country in the world to charge prisoners hundreds of dollars a day for the privilege of being in prison, on top of the price gouging for basic services.