u/notsoshaihulud

>Maybe Russia’s actions aren’t directed by logic.

They are, just not the kind of logic that considers human lives valuable.

>Every time you consider that not holding your opinion is “objectively stupid” you should stop a moment to reflect what those words mean.

Thanks, but I'm past elementary school and not here to explain the difference between calling out a direct opposition between stated goals and actual actions, vs "my opinion is the only objective truth".

Your whole post is incredibly naive.

>My European perspective is that defending corporate right as an alternative to fascism is an acceptable emergency measure while there are big credible efforts for large scale reforms to at least have a real left voting option, but it’s not by far a solution to the problem.

>And if you want that common platform to be the democrats, they will have to change a lot.

Like centuries of bipartisanism will be magically turned into a Euro-style multiparty coalition system in 3.8 years.

It's just fucking absurd that people can be beat up and tortured physically and psychologically but I'm being asked to be less mean because it will hurt feewings.

I consider enabling the "stick" to be beat the fuck out of you just because you're "not into carrots" to be objectively stupid. I'm a Euro transplant and I can't see how it is less stupid from a European perspective. The saddest part is that my wife and I have recession-proof professions, people who got us into this situation don't.

Remember when he said, “24 hours after he’d be president, he’d have peace?”

That's part of a desensitization strategy where trumpy makes outlandish claims nobody takes seriously so if he manages to deliver on a single one out of hundreds of such, he's celebrated as a visionary. So republicans are measured by their successes and Democrats are measured by their failures, no matter how low those rates may be for each.

>to all the American ~~leftists~~ *useless idiots* who refused to vote against trump

FTFY. Voting against trumpy was the easiest decision for anybody who opposes fascism.

people can make social media accounts full of soft core rat erotica just for travel purposes.

My favorite bullshit from the MAGAs had been "this is not a democracy, it's a republic".

It used to be both, now it aspires to be neither.

>They’re effectively the illuminati conspiracy theorists have been trying to find for many years now.

This is spot on.

Time to look into purchasing Swedish National Bonds, 'cause those Grippens will be grippin.

you don't know how military alliances work, do you? not to worry, the US president doesn't know either.

>The world population is orders of magnitude larger than it was during the second world war.

FYI, order of magnitude = x10. otherwise your math seems to check out, but this got me confused.

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

>All this raises the question: Why has the US president chosen to upend trade relations on the North American continent?

It's because the trade agreement trump's unhappy with was made by a raging moron.

Putin would have used a coup rather than an invasion if trump was in the office then.

I remain unimpressed by CNN reporters because he has not asked the most important question: **What will guarantee Russia's adherence to any kind of peace deal?**

It's boring to repost it the Nth time but the 1994 Budapest Memorandum was quite clear about these matters:

1. Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders

2. Refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories...

3. Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest...

4. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

Yet, putin kicked nearly every single point in the memorandum the moment he felt ready. Why would the same leader act differently in the future?

It's eerily similar in my view to the Abraham accords. Trump negotiated bypassing Palestinians and then we got Oct 7 and the war that spiraled from it. These "deals" are as flimsy as a CyberTruck, but it's also very trumpy. He gets to act like a peacemaker and then his successor will deal with the consequent shit. Same thing happened in Afghanistan.

*edit: also, if someone wants to be "fair" (i'd rather say naive) one can consider the official Russian narrative, but again that narrative explicitly goes against the Budapest Memorandum, meaning, they are very open about not respecting treaties they sign.

liebensraum

*Lebensraum. They don't have room for love.