Sorry, America is busy right now chasing after the Houthis, monitoring Lebanon, giving piles of Weapons to Israel, helping genocide Gaza, and shaming people to vote for a corpse in 2024. Try later.
Liberals wholeheartedly believe that if Russia gains an inch of territory that their next move will be to overthrow the world. If you mention that this is unreasonable and illogical, they insinuate that you're a Putin sympathizer and you want that to happen.
Putin has been in power for ~25 years. In that time, Russia has fought wars in… I think Chechnya, Georgia, and Dagestan. Small territories that were formerly part of the USSR, and for all I know it’s possible the USSR was justified in intervening or at the very least Russia’s action could not be called “imperial”. I guess there’s Syria too but the US is there too so that’s a wash.
Ukraine is the first real, full scale war Putin has launched. Still within the former borders of the USSR. And that was a war Putin tried to avoid and could have been avoided had Ukraine gone along with Minsk II and stopped shelling the Donbas.
Should we discuss all the imperialist invasions and wars the US has been in in the last 25 years?
Putin has had 25+ years to show he is imperialist and hasn’t done it yet. But libs think he’s gonna lead the Russian army to Paris if NATO dares shows any weakness.
Putin has had 25+ years to show he is imperialist and hasn’t done it yet.
But have you considered that imperialism is when a country does anything in another country? Kinda like the imperialist CCP building infastructure in Africa to lead them away from FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY(tm). Bet you didn't think about that. Chechmate tankie
it's always important to remember where the imperial core is, and who is dividing the world into camps (NATO) and who is responding to that division (non-NATO countries).
The Russian war in Ukraine is ultimately a side effect of the civil war in Ukraine, which is a side effect of neoliberalization of Ukraine, which is a side effect of the end of the USSR. All problems in that region stem ultimately from that event, but libs are incapable of seeing the end of the USSR as a bad thing, so they have to invent a world where former soviet nations are guilty of imperialism against NATO proxies and postcolonial countries are anti-democratic dictatorships who have to be brought in line by the "rules-based world order" (NATO).
When I saw a similar call to action from QAnon, I actually laughed out loud lol. He had like a 5 paragraph screed about the deep state and pedophiles and the holy battle between good and evil
The implied part is that their neocon leaders know how to apply the necessary imperialist violence. They know the vote doesn’t fix it, they know what they want their leaders to do
North Korea is peacefully advancing their economy, technology, and living standards. Since they are Communists, this cannot stand. We must invade to destroy the country before they can do Communism.
The liberal image of North Korea is of like...Mordor or something. You ask them to picture North Korea and they imagine that scene from the lord of the rings where the orcs are making weapons preparing for war in a burnt out volcanic wasteland. That's honestly what they think the country is like. The lies about the country are so extreme in the liberal press that their view of it is entirely 100% fictional. They don't know a single thing about the country and are incredibly hostile to learning even the most basic facts about them.
Quite ironic considering that the dark ages were caused by the ancestors of people living in Europe right now and rest of the world was prospering during the dark ages.
So it's basically saying that the western civilization is the main character of history and whatever else was going on in The Americas, Asia (including West Asia/the Middle East), and Africa was inconsequential.
For one big example of how much it centres western civilization, the dark ages were also roughly when the Islamic Golden Age took place.
But to go even further than that, the Carolingian Renaissance occurred during the dark ages, so it's not even the west or Europe that we're talking about when we call it the dark ages but a fictionalised notion of "western civilization" that goes from Ancient Greece to Ancient Rome to a big gap where "nothing important happens" to the High and Late Middle Ages in Europe where things like the Renaissance take place.
It's also mythologising because it implies that Western Europe are the heirs to the achievements of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome because they sorta inherited their scientific and technological legacy.
The inconvenient fact that is that the Islamic Golden Age preserved a whole lot of writing and technology from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome by translating important works, not to mention building on these scientific and technological advances and developing their own, so they would have an equal claim over being heirs to western civilization by that same logic. Also the Islamic Golden Age is essentially how most of the science and technology from Ancient Greece and Rome gets to Western Europe.
But that's uncomfortable for some people to admit, so they just ignore it and tell eachother fairytales about history.
Remember that scene in the new star wars where the guy says he sells weapons to both the empire and the rebels and then they never circle back to that plot point again? It just feels similar
irrelevant star wars
Rei and Kylo should have joined forces when he first offered and then become grey Jedi who tear down the Empire and the Jedi and then Darth Vader's force ghost shrugs and applauds
Fortunately we don't have to worry about libs like this because their only solutions are writing their reps, going to "protests" at the designated time and place and then immediatly going home, and voting.
So it's not like their going to have literally any impact on anything.
I wish it were that simple. But unfortunately it takes a different set of actions and much less to preserve and defend the status quo than it does for us to change and overcome it. These people will gladly help the state spy on us and repress our movements, for example, which is relatively passive shit that we don't really have the equivalent of. They get to exercise power almost simply by just being, whereas we have to put up active resistance and throw our bodies, our freedom, and our societal status on the line in order to accomplish anything. I think the notion that we just don't have to worry about them because they'll just casually contribute to the repressive tide we have to struggle against is actually kind of dangerous.
Not that the sense in which we should worry about them is in trying to "change their minds online". That's obviously a pointless and futile strategy. But we should be working, when we can, to humiliate, shame, disempower, and make them uncomfortable everywhere they turn. We should be working to dismantle their casual systems of power (reactionaly neighborhood watches, homeowners' associations, better business bureaus, NextDoor, etc.—and whatever the equivalents are in other regions, as I'm mostly familiar with the American ones) because those things are essentially an informal extension of the state and of capitalist power. They are basically brownshirts, except that the state and its tendrils have become so ubiquitous that they often don't need to actively take the violent actions themselves when they've almost always got a cop on hand to do it for them, and all they have to do is be that cop's eyes and ears. (And, of course, we shouldn't neglect the fact that the state will still be very forgiving of them if and when they do decide to be directly violent.)
That genuinely seems like a high bar to step up to. Biden has done a bang up job in the genocide department it’s actually hard to think Trump could top it.
I hear the angle, slightly more persuasively put but still the same as “bullies”, that “it’s all about the humans, I am against human suffering” which is false because it assumes the west are not actors with agency.
Too many soft leftists who believe that our society is simply responding to events rather than driving them, which is why “I am against humans suffering” is the more nuanced form of “BULLIES” that appeals to soft leftists.
Because they're the sort of people who, if they were school administrators, would put up a bunch of "no bullying" posters and declare the problem solved. They want the same thing for geopolitics, where they can just "inform" Putin that he's being a meanie head bully and he'll just stop.
Just spitballing: the validation of imagining that someone, someday, will point to their picture in a classroom and say "and these people were actually right and smart all along, but all the brainwashed people on both sides just wouldn't listen to what they had to say."
It's always a matter of the civilised world vs the barbaric hordes to them.
They don't actually care about history. Tell them about the political philosopher Ibn Tufayl and how his works preceded the Enlightenment thinkers and was a direct influence on some of them. (I can't remember the specific details but there was an early copy of his Hayy Ibn Yaqzan the library of... maybe a mentor of Rousseau? who had definitely read the book and was a direct influence on Rousseau and then suddenly Rousseau produces Emile, which has astonishing parallels to Hayy Ibn Yaqzan although no conclusive, direct link has been established between Rousseau and Tufayl.)
Do you think they're going to be fascinated or excited to learn about this fact?
Nah, no thanks! Only Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, and maybe whatever European history they're connected to via their heritage or their last name.
They're just interested in historical justification for telling themselves that they are heirs to civilization.
there was an early copy of his Hayy Ibn Yaqzan the library of... maybe a mentor of Rousseau? who had definitely read the book and was a direct influence on Rousseau and then suddenly Rousseau produces Emile, which has astonishing parallels to Hayy Ibn Yaqzan although no conclusive, direct link has been established between Rousseau and Tufayl
hmmmm that sounds suspiciously like how Newton and Leibniz both invented calculus at the exact same time after Jesuits had made contact with the Kerala school of mathematics
Imperialism and crypty-fascism aside, I think it is really funny how this guy is saying "Bullies and evil doesn't respond to [ineffectual milquetoast lib shit], we need to actually stand up and do [ineffectual milquetoast lib shit]!".
the year the world descended into the next dark age
Americans are screaming as if the world is ending because their empire is getting destroyed and their own country is balkanizing. Meanwhile, the rest of the world carries on their lifes.
These two accounts are spreading pro-Russian propaganda.
They’re portraying President Biden as a “weak president” when he is anything but.
Imagine getting worked up about a few Soviet-made trash rockets with zero accuracy being launched at Ukraine. lol Russia has zero chance of winning this, ok?
I am fairly certain that these people are just trolls paid by Putin and the Republican Party to divide us.
we need a picture of Donald Trump wearing a Hamas headband. I mean, pictures. every single iconic picture of Trump, photoshopped so he's wearing a Hamas headband
okay what is the thing about North Korean missiles? maybe it's my western chauvinism showing but I didn't think they had a significant arms manufacturing industry.
The latest Russian missile offensive yes? The narrative here is simple.
The US wants to escalate and give longer range missiles to Ukraine at the same time there is a struggle against the necessity to divert funding to Israel/ME. So the Ukrainian war hawks still believe their war is the most important and the point here is to create a narrative that if Russia is buying/getting even more help from their allies then we should continue to fund and escalate the supply of missiles for Ukraine.
Why missiles? Because there is literaly nothing else. The wondershit weapons are all done, be it the Abrams or the F-16s that will take months/years. Artillery? Yes Ukraine needs artillery shells but obviously the west can't supply those. So what is left? Patriots? Already given and obviously barely useful. So the only thing that admittedly had some efficacy was these cruise missiles. Ukraine managed to launch a few successful strikes therefore this is the only path.
So TL;DR the US wants an excuse to continue supplying missiles to Ukraine and the narrative of Russian escalating through their allies is the "excuse".
The reality here doesn't matter, it is merely a public political excuse to keep escalating against the Russians.
The only missiles left to send Ukraine are the sub-sonic Tomahawks (the US/UK does not have supersonic cruise missiles), and that really is all they have left. They have nothing else beyond this.
You can see it in the NAFOids already, they are using #TaurusMissiles in tweets talking about North Korean missiles used by Russia. They are trying to create an equivalency and a rhetorical justification for more ATACMs and Tauruses
I think they're talking about how the DPRK sold artillery shells to Russia. The DPRK has a sizable inventory of artillery batteries. The DMZ is one of the more artillery heavy areas in the world as far as I know
No they are now saying Russia is using North Korean ballistic missiles. If Russia is, it’s likely for testing purposes to help DPRK gather intel and not because Russia needs them