I remember that one British stuffed shirt lamenting that war was happening, not to Africans or Arabs this time, but instead to a people who were "relatively civilized, relatively European." The racism was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
When you say that to liberals, they'll immediately point to Iranian laws mandating headcoverings for women -- as if having to abide by an admittedly repressive dress code were not infinitely preferable to living in a poverty-stricken, war-ravaged failed state with open-air slave markets. "But those aren't the only two options!" When the United States is involved, you bet they are.
The Biden Administration’s strategy is now to sustain Ukrainian defense until after the U.S. presidential elections
An interesting admission here. I think this is true, though the real reason has nothing to do with helping Ukraine -- it's about avoiding a political disaster for the Democrats.
Yeah, no. I'm from the states, and these Ukronazi losers can fuck off and pay their own bills. The same goes for Taiwan, Israel, and whatever other meme countries our government and ruling class -- the real traitors -- are supporting. Americans have their own bills to pay.
Yes, I remember people talking about how Ukraine was "systematically destroying" the Russian army at Bakhmut, and how it was a meatgrinder from which Russia would never recover -- in fact the opposite was true. Then (because Prigozhin) everyone was talking about corruption in the Russian military, how Putin's hold on power was extremely fragile, etc. etc., and saying with utmost confidence that the Summer Counteroffensive (lol) would absolutely collapse that whole house of cards; Ukraine would reconquer Crimea, there would be regime change in Russia, President Navalny would oversee the "total decolonization" of Siberia (also lol). None of that happened either. Plus throughout it all, we were consistently told that if we would just give Ukraine Leopards, Abrams, F-16s, HIMARS, Javelins, Patriot systems, Challengers, cluster bombs, horcruxes, baatleths, sticks and stones, and of course more of that sweet, sweet US taxpayer money, those plucky Ukrainian would beat the Russians in no time whatsoever. Western governments absolutely thought Ukraine could win, and some of the (particularly Britain) are still clinging to that illusion.
People who said the computer would end up being one of the most useful scientific tools ever invented were (1) right, but (2) also didn't anticipate how whole sectors of western academia would end up just browsing social media, collecting some screenshots, and presenting the whole together with some lazy-ass graph as "research."
Could not be so foolish as to allow such disarray to occur naturally, but could absolutely be dumb enough to let its government get infiltrated at every level by a foreign security service
This is not the defense of 'Murica they think it is
Ah, the old "two things can be bad at once, mkay?" Otherwise known as "I am too lazy to actually try and think dialectically about the world around me, so I'm going to sit on my high horse and act morally superior" defense.
All my comrades loathe Winston Churchill.