And how about you mind your fuckin manners, you're not talking to some lemmy brat with a day-old account, you disagree with my takes that's fine, state your reasons and move on, but don't go throwing terms like "westoid" and "defeatist" around as if I said something remotely chudish

Now you can disengage

Defeatist nonsense

The reality of Russian policy under Trump doesn't matter, what matters is Putin's perception of the state of US politics, and listening to any of his speeches it's clear he's not a particularly intelligent or canny individual, after all it took him decades to figure out the game the US was playing on Russia, he's a neolib thru and thru who's gotten moderately more nationalistic the last two years by sheer social osmosis from the rest of the country, god knows what he really believes deep down

He sees US politics thru a liberal prism modulated by sources that inflate and exaggerate Trump's pro-Russianness, to the point I believe it seriously effects Putin's thinking or lack thereof

Why does the victory have to be THIS YEAR?

Do you believe the people of eastern Ukraine want another year of war if it can be avoided, you're seriously losing the plot here

No, claiming a side doesn’t want to win is the most common form of defeatism. The “we would have won if not for the politicians” is the bitter whinge of losers.

Then in that case I look forward to Russia winning the war THIS YEAR and for the FALL OF THE KIEV REGIME

Nothing will shatter this friendship because both know they cannot stand alone against the existential threat of the west.

Do they know that, do they REALLY know all that? Or do they believe the calculus will shift when a different US president comes in?

A defeatist take would involve claiming Russia CAN'T win, I'm saying they DON'T WANT TO win because there's a faction in the government that wants to reintegrate with the west, and since Putin has been the face of that faction for the last thirty years he gets the blame

The dumbass probably thinks he could cool things down if Trump is in office, so he wants to put off the Russian offensive until the fall and mess with Biden's chances, despite all the rhetoric I believe Putin just wants the 2022 peace deal to finally go thru, the idea this neollib weakling is gonna march past the Dnieper strikes me as cope of the highest order, this isn't 2022 the Russians have the numbers and equipment to win this war in under a season, the longer they don't the more plausible my theory becomes that the neolib faction in Moscow just wants a peace deal that doesn't scare DC

Finally some common sense in the geopolitical scene

Who won the exchange? Considering how spineless and easily rattled AOC is, I'm guessing even a dumbass like Greene bulldozed her

CALLED IT! Fuckin "buffer zone" that dumb fuck Putin really does want to make the big Russian offensive into an October "surprise", yeah just sacriface the late spring/summer opening because you want to play political games with DC, this dumb war is gonna last another year cause Putin wants to hand the west a runway the distance from Kiev to DC, once a loyal puppet always a loyal puppet

A lot of those motherfuckers never grew up, there are still parts of the internet that ten years later are still rehashing gamergate filth

And don't get me wrong, the real story of William Adams is just as fascinating as Yasuke's, but again the fuckin gall

I take it this isn't a good time to detail my suspicion of the liberal faction in the CPC

In my headcannon they're kinda like the IDF, good at killing civilians with a horde of melee wielding psychopaths and storming the settlements of helpless tribes, but the minute they encounter an actual military force, out goes the ideology and in comes the firearms and presumably the hoard of weaponry collected from 87 tribes would be substantial enough to give the failing NCR a headache

Plus the Colordo river and Lake Mead are extremely defensible locations, even a horde of dipshits fascists could hold it for a while

More like my doomerism is comically inspired, over the last few weeks I've lathed so hard I'm convinced Putin and his allies are looking for a way to triangulate a Russian victory/defeat that pleases the west (an impossible task, but one non-west neolibs love to undertake), I mean look who were talking about, one of the butchers of the Soviet Union, Yelstin's creatures, a motherfucker so dense it took him until 2007 to figure out the west doesn't like him, PEOPLE LIKE THAT DON'T CHANGE

As the possibility and inevitability of a Russian victory becomes solid reality, the more my suspicion of these fuckers growth, will they really hand the west its greatest defeat in almost sixty years? Will they really go for regime change in Kiev? Or will they forsake themselves and everything for the dream of a beach house in Miami? (which I believe is the animating core of most Russian capitalists, even if the west forever thwarts their pro-Atlantic dreams)

I got the goddamn vision folks, I'm seeing the futuuure

Blinken visits Kiev, suddenly the Kharkiv Offensive fizzles out, Putin's faction sure can work quick when the goal is pleasing the west

Close, in the last game it was revealed the founder of the Templar Order was none other than......

From your lips to god's ear brother

Yes! Saw that branch you're sitting on you fascist motherfuckers

There are many historical figures I genuinely dislike on a personnel level, but Timurlane honestly takes the cake for me, it's like if someone dropped a 20th century fascist in the middle of the medieval era, reading anything about that motherfucker is extremely grating