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  • because it is easier to disturb operations from within the organisation.

    And what disturbances do you mean? NATO spending has exploded in recent years. Last year NATO allies increased spending by 18%. Why would a Russian asset set about a plan that drastically increases the funding for Russia's primary enemy? Why is Trump's whole schtick that Europe needs to start spending more on defense?

    Why would Putin kick off the Ukraine war immediately after his "agent" leaves office?

    Why, in his first term, was Trump commanding Germany and EU to stop buying Russian gas? Going so far as to sanction comoanies involved with the Nordstream pipeline?

    Meanwhile, in 2018, the US expelled more than 60 Russian officials after identifying them as intelligence officers. To put it bluntly, any gains Russia might have achieved through Trump’s good offices are far outweighed by the strategic, economic, and counterintelligence realities that have emerged during his presidency.

    But any Russian intelligence officer would need to consider whether Trump really cares enough about kompromat and Russian money. Indeed, why enrol him as an agent of influence – a move that carries enormous consequences for both parties – when Russia could opt for a convenient friend in Washington?

    In reality, even if Russia sees Trump as an asset, we’re not talking about Trump being a new Kim Philby (of Cambridge Five fame). We’re talking about Trump being a self-interested businessman who’s happy to do a favour if it works to his own best interests – and that includes staying out of jail. There’s no evidence that Trump knowingly associated with any Russian intelligence officers. And there’s a big distinction between making the wrong kind of friends and committing treason.

    https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2021/02/title-240459-en.html

    Collusion/conspiracy/coordinate... just semantics.

    [Mueller] did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.

    Trump is not a Russian asset. He's an easily-manipulated businessman who does things in his own self interest, and that is as American as apple pie. There is no need to invoke Putin. Our descent into Christian Fascism is our own doing - one that Russia no doubt took advantage of. If you truly believe Trump is a Russian asset, then you have to concede that the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and the Five Eyes have all been captured by Russia as well.

  • If Trump is a Russian asset, why didnt the US pull out of NATO months ago? Why did Mueller's report conclude that there was no collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia?

    If Russia is blamed for Trump’s election, we avoid the unpleasant reality of our failed democratic institutions and decaying empire. We avoid facing the inevitable rise of a Christianised fascism borne out of widespread impoverishment, rage, despair and abandonment. We avoid acknowledging the complicity of the Democratic Party in the orchestration of the largest social inequality in our nation’s history, the evisceration of our basic civil liberties, endless wars and an electoral system bankrolled by the billionaire class, which is legalised bribery. The myth allows us to believe that Democratic politicians, like the establishment Republicans who have joined them, are the guarantors of a democracy they destroyed.

    All the investigations into Trump’s ties with Russia are unequivocal. There was no collusion. The Steele dossier, financed at first by Republican opponents of Trump and later by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and compiled by former MI6 British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele, was a fake. The charges in the dossier — which included reports of Trump receiving a ‘golden shower’ from prostituted women in a Moscow hotel room and claims that Trump and the Kremlin had ties going back five years — were discredited by the FBI. Sources, including the one that claimed Trump had long-held ties to the Kremlin, turned out to be fabricated. Special Counsel Robert S Mueller concluded that his investigation ‘did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.’ Mueller did not indict or accuse anyone of criminally conspiring with Russia.

    • Chris Hedges
  • It is one thing to pick sides between a predator and prey animal, but this was not that.

    Eh, those "circling predators" mentioned in the article just lost out on a feast. I can understand the non-intervention philosophy. Intervening while filming nature docs is probably not sustainable.

  • *US continues a 2-centuries-long campaign of militarily destabilizing Latin America

    IT'S THAT DAMNED POOTIN AT IT AGAIN

  • Nietzsche was not a nihilist. Nor was he a proponent of retreating when things get bad. Quite the opposite: his whole thing was about affirming your situation and living with high vitality - regardless of what life throws your way.

  • There's a reason most of Eastern Europe hate Russia so much

    A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 66% of Armenians thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful

    In a 2016 survey, 69% of Azerbaijanis believed life was better under the USSR.

    In a 2016 survey, it increased to 53% of Belarusians saying life was better under the USSR

    Another Pew survey, also in 2017, showed that 43% of Georgians thought the dissolution was a good thing, compared to 42% who thought it was a bad thing.

    In a 2016 survey, around 60% of Kazakhs above the age of 35 believed life was better under the USSR.

    A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 61% of Kyrgyz thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 16% who thought it was beneficial.

    A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 42% of Moldovans thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 26% who thought it was beneficial.[7] Regret about dissolution later increased to 70% according to a 2017 Pew survey, with only 18% saying the dissolution was a good thing.

    Levada polling since the mid-1990s on the preferred political and economic system of Russians also shows nostalgia for the Soviet Union, with the most recent polling in 2021 showing 49% preferring the Soviet political system, compared to 18% preferring the current system, and 16% preferring Western democracy, as well as 62% saying they preferred a system of economic planning compared to 24% preferring a market capitalist economy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia_for_the_Soviet_Union

  • ...

    I'm still going to engage with you despite you not engaging with any part of my comment..

    i don’t want to live in a country that scores [me]. I have the right to not want [that].

    You sure do have that right. Your right to not want that is just dandy. However, Chinese people, by and large, do support their implementation of the social credit system. The Chinese people are developing their vision of socialism. For you to personally not like certain features of Chinese socialism is fine and dandy. But to condemn the Chinese for some aspect of their development of socialism that enjoys high support is chauvinistic of you.

  • This thought-terminating cliche is getting so tired. You may as well just say "let's just agree to disagree".

    It's telling that this cliche is most often applied when western whataboutism is correctly called out, and all it does is serve to legitimize the act of manufacturing consent against China.

    USA invents credit score way back in the 50s

    credit score is immediately used to pull off the most calculatingly misogynistic, racist, and classist financial enforcement in modern history.

    china implements a technically similar system that aims not to control working people's financial agency, but to strengthen public trust.

    the west immediately spins up the presses and releases dozens of hit pieces a year that manufacture consent against China by portraying the Chinese social credit system as an orwellian nightmare that will rip a child out of their parent's home if the household spends too much time on videos games.

    leftists identify this whataboutism and correctly call it out

    liberals drop one of their various thought-terminating cliches to (not so) subtly bolster the western narrative - thus manufacturing consent against China.

    You've been effortlessly oriented by the State Department and its various propaganda apparatus.

  • The final goal of communism is a worldwide, stateless, classless, moneyless society.

    This has obviously never been achieved, but the socialist and communist factions that use Marxism Leninism to work toward this goal are still nonetheless communist.

  • It's also dumb to pretend the "boring" era wasn't politically aberrant as well. They were setting the stage for what we are seeing now, and it's telling that people are only getting upset now that fascism is getting focused inwards and domestically instead of outwardly towards other countries.

  • Only thing you enlisted in is ribs night at Golden Corral.

  • That only changes if people fight which is why it is important that the world stand with Ukraine against Putin and the fascists of this world.

    And there's the rub. You can't just stick your fingers in your ears when Ukrainians are aiming to end combat and pursue negotiations, and then turn around and say you are "standing with Ukraine".

    Put simply: to stand with Ukraine means to affirm the hopes and agency of common Ukrainians - which is definitively not what you're doing.

    Consider this thought experiment:

    In 5 years, supposing the grueling combat has continued, and 95% of Ukrainians definitively and undoubtedly wish to end combat, is it really "standing with Ukraine" if you reject this number and insist they continue to fight to "save the world from fascism" while you yourself have not enlisted?

  • Maybe you can cede your home and all your possessions to Putin? You realize that is what you are defending right?

    Nope, it's actually a simple question:

    Do you think the Ukrainian common people should be the primary agents in determining whether or not to continue combat?

  • The fact that they want the war to end doesn't mean they want to surrender.

    How does this follow or relate to anything we've discussed so far?

  • It's like asking "would you like peace?

    It's actually not like that at all. It's actually pretty simple:

    Which of the following statements about the war with Russia comes closest to your personal views?

    Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war

    Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible

    Don't know/Refused

  • What is it with yall refusing to believe any opposing viewpoints are organic?

    Those 69% of Ukranians who want to end the war via negotiation - are they Russian bots as well?

  • You know you can go enlist, right?

    I think what you meant to say was,

    I for one prefer Ukrainians continue throwing themselves in the grinder

    Despite the fact that,

    More than three years into the war, Ukrainians’ support for continuing to fight until victory has hit a new low. In Gallup’s most recent poll of Ukraine — conducted in early July — 69% say they favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible, compared with 24% who support continuing to fight until victory.

    This marks a nearly complete reversal from public opinion in 2022, when 73% favored Ukraine fighting until victory and 22% preferred that Ukraine seek a negotiated end as soon as possible.

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/693203/ukrainian-support-war-effort-collapses.aspx

    Edit: grammar

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