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When and where was it promised that NATO wouldn’t accept candidates from the east?

This was done by James Baker, US Secretary of state in 1990:

“there would be no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east”

Russia wants it’s area of influence ie hold power over other smaller countries.

Yes, this is a universal feature of great power geopolitics going back centuries.

Russia still thinks the big players decide everything amongst themselves. They think the us decides everything that happens in NATO alone. The us isn’t the dictator that controls NATO.

LOL who could even argue otherwise after the utter humiliation of US treaty allies in recent tariff agreements?

The only thing Russia has left is the information war

Well that and also winning the land war and the economic war…do you really not see what is going on?

NATO enlargement hasn’t done any real harm to Russia

Ok first of all this is a direct quote from the first secretary general of NATO from the literal website:

[the purpose of NATO is to] "keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”

The Soviets applied to join NATO in 1954 but they were denied. Also NATO bombed Yugoslavia in the 90s.

So yes, if it was exactly like you say that concept is called “critical support”. It is possible and often necessary to align with imperfect allies against the greater foe.

However, since we are in the Europe comm I assume you are implicitly alluding to the Ukrainian conflict. Once you believe that Russia is allowed to have national security interests, the whole conflict is quite cut and dry. In the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, The West has repeatedly promised that NATO would not expand East, and has repeatedly broken that promise. Would you trust the West? What if a right-wing government took over in a Western-backed coup and banned the use of the Russian language, while making overtures to join NATO?

This analogy is imperfect but imagine if the Quebecois seized power in Canada and banned the use of English, while also trying to join the SCO quasi-alliance. Do you think the US would wax poetic about self-determination or would we immediately see Abrams tanks rolling north?

Okay fun! Let’s see if I get banned.

The state religion of the West is known as Liberalism. This ideology has an insufferably self-righteous view of itself, like all religions. In this framing, only liberalism can be the path to good, and all other ideologies are flavors of the dreaded Authoritarianism™

In this way, liberalism becomes Capital’s perfect shield against all criticism or worse yet class consciousness. We can’t tax the rich, that would be authoritarian! The “Liberty” of the ownership class is the top priority, and the material concerns of the working class should barely even be spoken of.

The crown jewel of this system is media control, also known as “manufacturing consent”. We can’t have scary gommunism because Stalin and Mao killed a hundred bajillion people, I read about it in my trusted national news sources. The modern tactic is to “spread democracy” by pouring money into reactionary elements through well-known CIA cutouts like NED. This is known as a color revolution and wait for the best part! Either the color revolution succeeds and overthrows a government that prioritizes the working class over capital, OR the color revolution fails and we have a new slander to plaster across the media!

Once you stop caring about the “Liberty” of the capital class and start counting coups you might have a different understanding about what freedom actually means. Is it freedom to have to work for the capital class day in and day out or else your family will starve?

Found Noam Chomsky’s secret hexbear account

In my experience, the powermods on the Liberal comms are extremely incapable of telling the difference

Critics of Western imperialism literally built Lemmy

In the classic baseball sex analogy, a home run is full intercourse. There is a progression of bases 1 through 3 on the way to home plate, different people will call different foreplay sex acts different base numbers.

The joke here is that the poster is calling being vulnerable enough to show a potential partner their panicked state is equivalent to the level of foreplay immediately before intercourse.

Hope this helps and/or ruined the joke

Eth supposedly solved this problem with proof of stake

For 200 bucks an hour

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So if we landed on: most news video essays are trash but this one is actually good, then I think we are in complete agreement

Did you watch this specific video?

I think your criticisms are valid and accurate in general, but I have to say I don’t think they work very well against this video.

I think it would have taken Johnny Harris two hour-long videos to cover all the information she did in 24 minutes, and of course his analysis would be CIA sewage

I personally can read faster than a video, but this format has some advantages like:

• real human emotion to emphasize the important parts
• more historical photos than I think would work in an article
• getting to hear the local pronunciation for people and places
• like it or not, it seems the majority of the human population prefers to get information over video. This one happens to be seasoned with class analysis throughout

Yeah, I have to disagree. I had very little idea about all the history. Considering she covered two countries and over a century, I think the presentation was very concise.

I also believe that it all tied into the historical materialist argument she made overall, which would have been a lot less powerful if she’d only considered recent events.