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The USA lies much more than Russia. The US press dutifully reports every word the US wants it to, in order to maintain access and credentials and be taken "seriously".

NATO is not a defensive alliance, and it never has been. It was set up as an anti-communist alliance, but it is not essentially just a tool for US dominance. Its first action was an offensive action against Yugoslavia, who never attacked NATO. Its next action was to invade Afghanistan, who had offered up Bin Laden in exchange for avoiding the invasion (but the US refused, and stated they don't negotiate with terrorists). Also, Afghanistan never attacked the USA or any NATO member state

If it stopped a war, why not say that they won't let Ukraine join NATO? Ukraine doesn't have the right to join NATO just as much as Russia. And just as much as Russia doesn't have the right to "call the shots." It is an offensive military alliance, there are consequences for how its membership grows and it affects the security concerns of other countries. It is so fun to just hear US government talking points repeated back endlessly.

Hmm, it isn't big brained if you followed what was happening. Why would the US dump $150 billion into arming Ukraine if it wasn't in their interests? that kind of money could solve so many problems the US has at home but they are wasting it on weapons and ammunition for a right-wing, failed state that was trying to ethnically cleanse 30% of its country

lol, Russia has as much to do with the USSR as Ukraine does. They were both part of the soviet union and were both replaced with corrupt reactionary states with economies that are objectively worse off than when the USSR existed.

Yes, every country must bow down the the United States and its junior partners. I see now. Wars can only have one bad actor, and one reason for occurring, and Ukraine is a shining beacon of democracy, and not a nearly identical country with a nearly identical political system (except until maybe the Nazi & US led coup in 2014).

The world will absolutely not be a better place if the US/NATO wins. The US government serves finance capital and the defense industry before any regular person. Russia sucks, but they don't have control over the rest of the world the way that the US does. The US is not a bastion of freedom or human rights, it the the world #1 jailer and is responsible for millions, if not tens of millions, of deaths around the world in the past few decades alone. While the planet boils from the economic system they defend to the death, they will be rewarding their class with money hand over fist, selling weapons and gas to their client states in europe, and all while telling us that they are fighting for human rights the whole time. The US has even written position papers that the war is good for them (check out the original RAND paper written prior to the war) They think using this proxy war will weaken a potential geopolitical threat, and they have had a huge windfall increasing their sales of LNG and weapons. The US wants to fight russia to the last ukranian and instead of calling for some kind of peaceful settlement liberals are frothing at the mouth for russian blood and calling them orcs, pretending it isn't racist at all

It absolutely was a civil war, it began with a US-instigated coup, with US state department officials calling the shots for who will lead Ukraine afterwards and passing out bread and cookies to the protestors (very different to how they treat protestors at home only six years later) ... You should listen to the leaked phone call with victoria nuland if you think the US wasn't involved.. Anyway, the civil war had led to thousands dying and Ukraine had effectively lost control of a large part of the country for nearly a decade... sounds like a civil war to me.

You are delusional if you think that Russia will "get their teeth kicked in and get beaten out of the country"... Ukraine is literally losing, or at best, in a stalemate. They are in the process of losing the third army they have raised and Russia has not fully mobilized... I don't think Russia was right to invade, but they had a much better reason to do so than the US when it invaded Iraq, or Syria, or Afghanistan, or Vietnam, or really any other conflict short of ww2

Would you be more or less likely to vote for someone if it was felt he poisoned his opponent? I feel like there are two separate things being discussed here. Was it bad that he got poisoned? jfk, of course. Did it change how the election played out? Sure? Did it make the results of the election moot, change the way in which the administration of the election occurred, or assure one side victory? Not really, no? idk if anyone knows that, but i don't think that is even why the Euromaidan occurred according to the people who participated...

I am pretty sure it was explicitly cited by Russia when the invasion started, and in the run up to the war they said over and over it would be avoided if the US could assure them that Ukraine wouldn't join NATO. Blinken publicly said forbidding Ukraine from NATO or assuring any security guarantees was a "non-starter" ... so I guess if they just ignored everything Russia was saying, then maybe they didn't believe NATO had anything to do with the invasion... but that still wouldn't make it true.

Did he die? Did they also poison all of the people who would have voted for him?

Wait, is that 50,000 people including the 14,000 the UN said were killed by the Ukraine military in the Donbass before the Russian invasion?

Should "peaceniks" support sending weapons to Ukraine too? Pretending that Putin is the singular reason this war happened is ridiculous.

Did the US electing Obama end racism? Did it mean that suddenly the US state was no longer racist or white-supremacist?

It doesn't matter much if their president is Jewish, when there are literal Nazi's in control of large parts of the military and other parts of the government. Zelensky was elected to enforce the Minsk accords, and the Nazi's in the military laughed in his face and humiliated him, so he did the self-serving thing... like any other politician. As an anarchist and a socialist, you should be more concerned that Zelensky outlawed basically all leftist parties and orgs, while sparing all the right-wing ones... this was even before the invasion.

Why does he sound like a Russian apologist? Russia is neither socialist or anarchist, so what would make him a Russian apologist?