TFU

It always astonishes me how that leap of logic works for libs. They totally misunderstood the Holocaust, the Nazis, all of it. They just believe it was bad because it was antisemitic, therefore if someone is doing the exact same shit to a group that isn’t Jewish, it’s not bad. I just can’t understand how they can miss the point so badly.

It does. Though whether it says a lot about the speaker (that he’s dumb enough to believe such an exaggeration, or thinks Americans are), or the American public for foolishly believing something so outrageous, idk.

I’m under the suspicion it’s not pointless, but an intentional effort to manufacture as high a death toll as possible. I don’t think the fascists ever expected or planned for a Ukrainian victory, but rather to sacrifice as many as possible in order to justify a new era of russophobic fascism in Europe.

What’s funny is even reducing Russian combat power by 5% in 2 years of proxy war actually sounds impressive to me, but I’m no general.

They’ll sell any delusion to manufacture consent with the people…

“Any member of the EU that doesn’t hate Russians and blindly support the US waging a proxy war on our borders through Nazi terrorist orgs is obviously an active Russian agent.” - the EU, apparent-fucking-ly

What exactly is his concept of “combat power”? It can’t be manpower or the weapons, vehicles, and ammunition, because Russia certainly hasn’t used up half of that. Just… what metric, what mental gymnastic, do you have to perform to even arrive at the idea Russian combat power has been reduced by 50%???

Again, makes sense.

I don’t doubt that. But I don’t doubt that it’s going to need to be a thorough victory to prevent the West from having anything to fund further action with. In the end, this is all speculation.

That makes sense. But wouldn’t leaving the rump state invite the fascists back into power? Does the gained territory really offer much of a buffer for Russia if what’s left of Ukraine keeps getting funded by the West to agitate the region?

I’d add that it’s not just a lack of quality scientific education, but an intentionally-taught distrust of academics and intellectuals. At least here in the US, there’s a trend in politics and media to encourage distrust and contempt for scientists. Typically the ringleaders are Christian fundamentalists who dislike scientists whose research validates concepts that contradict their teachings, and believe that Christian “scientists” who concoct conspiracy theories are unfairly shunned and censored by a cabal of corrupt, godless scientists. Most of the anti-science crowd here supports older, discredited sciences that align with Christian theology - at least the racist, colonial-settler flavor of Christianity.

Russia may win this war in the conventional sense. They may take Kiev, install a Russia-friendly government, and even have military forces occupying the country to keep the terrorists from simply walking in and overthrowing them. But the West will do all they can to spread civil unrest in the populace, to get them to side with the russophobes, to fund and arm those russophobes, and to recreate this same model in all of Russia’s neighboring countries. I’m not sure you can actually “win” the style of war the imperialists wage nowadays unless the imperialists lose wholesale. If the US and its lackeys keep channeling their propaganda in a region, keep throwing their money in a region, keep arming fascists in a region, then you have an infection you can’t control. And if you crack down and secure it, it makes your liberalized population sympathetic to the fascists because they can’t see or comprehend the threat to their sovereignty or lives. This is the game the West plays and has played for decades, and I don’t think its going to end until the head is cut off the snake and the fascists are cut off from their platforms and funding.

Of course, everyone here knows this. How this is going to turn out for Ukraine, who can say? The terrorists might slip the leash and attack Europe, immediately turning everyone off from the whole thing and giving Russia a needed reprieve. I suspect Russia may win the war, but the peace will be a grueling and draining affair for years, until the US is forced to divert resources elsewhere and the fascists are forced to go underground as their funding dries up.

Comrade from the US here. Not familiar with Sikkim and was curious what everyone’s stance is about it. I got a garland of country flags for my geography class and had to look up the Sikkim flag, which is right next to a flag of Kosovo, and it really has me furrowing my brow.

I genuinely can’t comprehend how a person could think such a thing. Even if I killed 1000 Nazis, I’d still feel a weight on my conscience from killing so many people. I can’t understand the mind of men who can kill civilians without an ounce of guilt or remorse.

I mean, I was stupid at 16-18, but I’m pretty sure doing anything like that would have given me a mental breakdown or worse.

I figured that was probably the case, too. I don’t really understand how people could think a Nazi unit would suddenly stop doing Nazi stuff during the war. Anything to pretend anti-communists are heroes, I guess.

Personally I think that’s even worse. It implies that SS Galicia had a reputation for brutal mass murder by that point and this dude decided to join up with them. It’s like wanting to enlist in the US Army right after you find out about My Lai.

If the US goes to war with a Chinese-supporting Mexico, I think it’s time I put my money where my mouth is and defect…

That’s about what I expected 😭