Putin wanted to join NATO. The US rejected Russia as an ally, while adding other former Soviet republics to NATO. Russia was slow to realize America wasn’t merely content with the fall of Soviet communism, but also wanted cheap access to its natural resources. Russia has adjusted accordingly.

America would’ve won cold war 1 & 2 in one move by admitting Russia to NATO and pitting them against China, but it got greedy.

I fucking hate these people who see Trump who is a huge malignant shitstain and immediately jump to pinning it on my disability and the medication I use to remedy it.

He’s a dipshit whose point is causing suffering of those he believes deserve it.

When he trips over his words trying to express those fucked up, poorly evidenced points to potentially well-adjusted viewers, these ableistic fucks go “golly gee, he surely must have a decent point, but his ADHD and/or addy habit caused him to forget”

the ableism is rampant in this thread holy shit.

this rowboat analogy fails because the interest to survive isn’t at odds with anything. America’s dominance comes at the expense of the well-being of most people in most nations on earth. A disaster to this boat would be tragic for those inside, but a blessing to those on other boats who were about to be torpedoed.

When one of the most bloodthirsty ghouls in human history chooses to board your ship, you need to ask yourself “where tf is this ship going?” and start planning mutiny immediately.

Trump is sitting here ready to quite literally sell our position to Russia and China

God, I wish I lived in the reality liberals have concocted for themselves.

You’re making Trump sound way cooler than he is. He’s a less savvy but more enthusiastic imperialist. Ending American (read white, anglo) supremacy does not inspire dread to anyone but weird xenophobes, financial exploiters of the global south, and weapons manufacturers.

I’m supposed to think one of the worst war criminals in human history endorsing your candidate is a good thing because their new guy is…checks notes…NOT PATRIOTIC ENOUGH? Is being the more competent pillager supposed to be an appeal?..while rent, food, and healthcare are unaffordable?

All this rhetoric does is inspires anyone who cares about anything above profit and bloodlust to not vote for your candidate. Meanwhile the people who like this xenophobic shit will vote for the more enthusiastic Republicans.

Trump replacements will pop up every 4 years until the end of the USA.

How authoritarian

Blackshirts and Reds was eye opening for me

Nix really has a kickass way of doing this. Won’t conflict anywhere and always let’s you know what is managed by Nix.

Great username

That’s exactly what this is.

14 words zyklon here to correct the record

They get hate because they challenge the viewpoints of liberals who have never peeped outside their western media echo chambers. They would literally just be considered normal leftists outside the west, but thats like garlic to a vampire for lemmredditors.

If you ask people on .world or .ee, it’s because they have positive views on China and Russia, who are responsible for all ills in the world.

Mirrored or old image?

This is literally why the FBI & CIA exist.

Trump finna turn the masses against the military and the military against the state. Fascists are so good at shooting themselves in the foot.

The Pentagon ran a program intended to kill untold number of innocent civilians just to hurt China and all lemmyoids can do is bicker about the effectiveness of Chinese vaccines.

The CIA thanks you for your service

BRICST’D’VE’MST

“Mom, not fair!”

You’re advocating for imperialism.

You mistake analysis for advocacy.

If Mexico started making military and security agreements to host Chinese security assets on our southern border, I wouldn’t be surprised if the US took military actions to stop it. I’d fight that decision, but I’d understand why the US made it.

I simply want the deaths to stop. It is looking like the only path to that is Russia having control over the eastern parts of Ukraine.

Who would have guessed that sovereignty is violated by war?

This conflict did not begin in 2022. The western conceptualization of it did, because the preceding events make their current narrative look illegitimate. US foreign policy is to instigate events like these in neighboring states of other regional powers.

Let’s not forget the US violated Ukrainian sovereignty by interfering in a coup to overthrow Yanukovych in 2014. Was Ukraine sovereign when the US gave intelligence to Svoboda loyalists so they could hunt down the former head of state? Was Ukraine sovereign when Victoria Nuland was ruling out candidates for subsequent heads of state?

I wish for Ukrainians to live happy, healthy, and long lives free of interference by foreign powers. I understand this to be impossible at present. They will never have an independent state or foreign policy again, regardless of who wins this war.

You wish for Ukrainians to continue to throw themselves into the furnace to beat Russia. They will have just as little sovereignty, but far more dead Ukrainians.

I feel so sorry for Ukrainians, especially those who wanted none of this.