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Huh?
and also, what about solar and wind?
So we give up on trying to fight climate change?
and now, is Moscow safer from missiles and have easier use of the Black Sea than before the war?
In a sense, Putin and Stalin did much to promote Ukrainian nationalism, much like the Nazis in a way promoted Zionism, or Zionists promoted Palestinian nationalism
When will this happen? Before 2030?
When do you think these parties will take over Germany, France, and UK?
Agree on all points, but small correction here:
Nazis did not promote Zionism by attacking Jews. Zionism made deals with Nazis to facilitate immigration to Palestine (Haavara agreement). Also Zionist orgs actively worked against the Jewish leftist groups in Europe, and by extension, helped the authoritarian states (Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia).
Zionism did not promote Palestinian nationalism. There was Palestinian nationalism that was suppressed under Ottoman rule and was advocating for their own state under the British mandate. The identity always existed and the state building was just starting early 1900s which was the same time when Zionism began colonization of Palestine.
Apparently the Jews didn't migrate fast enough as 6 million were murdered.
Oddly enough, IIUC, those who made it to Palestine in the 1930s fared better than those in most of Europe (I suppose UK, Finland, Switzerland, and maybe Albania being notable exceptions (I don't immediately know about those in Portugal and Spain, and I don't know how many were in Ireland)).
So noted, and eventually I'll probably check it out. Thanks.
We've given up on climate change in 2016 and even then it was already too late. Anyone pretending otherwise is just delusional. We're probably going to burn every single fossil fuel. And nothing we can do about it any more. Hitting somewhere around RCP6 is a near certainty now. That is unfortunately the sad reality. How much coverage does climate change and efforts even get these days? Near zero.
How The CIA Conjured Ukrainian Nationalism
This is based on declassified intel. The US has been supporting Ukranian ultra-nationalism since the 1950s. And they were utilized in the 2014 coup as the core of the Euromaidan. And as a Ukrainian trial verdict from 2023 found they were behind the Euromaidan massacre false flag operation. This is reality.
Did you know the slogan "Slava Ukraini" in the complete form (“Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!”) has been created by the banderites who fought with the NAZIs during WWII, and now been adopted as the official military greeting? The same banderites who massacred a 100.000 poles Wikipedia article. This is reality.
“Glory to the Heroes!”: The Cult of the OUN and UPA in Ukraine’s Military - Article by an Ukranian Historian
I don't know if anything like this reaches you. If anything at all can make you think for a moment. I see little difference between MAGAts, climate change deniers, anti vax and the people who are rabidly anti-Russia and pro US empire and neoliberalism. Complete denial of reality and incapable of accepting reality as it is.
You are being systematically lied to. You can check western sources to see this (see the links in this article), if you can read history and between the lines of propaganda. Historical facts are now denounced as Russian propaganda like reality and truth just doesn't mean anything any more. The official "Eu against disinfo" is spreading lies now. Do you still believe in democracy and liberal values? Because you are certainly not supporting them by repeating the propaganda of the US empire.
So in this political climate how exactly do you think Europe can avoid sliding into outright fascism?
PS: To add to the last bit, the thing is the AfD voters are quite stupid, and the AfD opportunistic neoliberals who will change their course on Russia almost immediately after getting power. Whatever gets their rocks off. They are not driven by any ideology, opportunists like MAGA.
But while these voters are very susceptible to certain propaganda, it's not the same kind of "idealism" propaganda that has hypnotized the left. Like they don't believe that Russia is evil because they are just acting in their own best selfish interest, and they'll believe the same about the US and other states too. This is the difference between "realism" and "idealism" in international relations. They think everyone, just like themselves, is out to get theirs. So talking points like "Putler will soon march and take Berlin" is defeated by a simple: What would he gain by actually doing that? While the idealistic people think "because he evil and irrational of course he wants to destroy everything!". And it's an old hat now. Sadam was a hitler. Gaddafi was a hitler. Assad was a hitler. The Ayatolla was a hitler. What those voters actually want is a clear nationalist policy platform that is in our own interests. But none the mainstream parties deliver on that and cowtow to the demands of the US empire instead.
So in answer to your question: "sooner than expected".
Kit Klarenberg
I don't think I ever heard of wt:thon.
Let's see: wp:The Grayzone.
I'm sure the CIA was up to a few things, and there are probably some bad elements in the Ukrainian armed forces, and I disagree with conscription (on both sides), and not allowing men between 18 to 60 years of age leaving (though even if they were, who'd take 10s of millions of Ukrainian men, assuming most would even want to leave Ukraine (and even despite the hardships)?).
I don't know if it can be called a coup if the Ukrainian parliament was involved and Yanukovych (wp article) was unpopular.
I think he should have been allowed to finish his term if was set to end later that year, but IIUC, he was on his way out.
wp:Slava Ukraini
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and that was very bad what Ukrainian nationalist did.
However, according to the article, this was between 1943 and 1945, when Stalin, and his ally, Hitler, made a pact to invade Poland and divide it between them. IIRC, 22% of Poland's population died in that war.
No one looks completely good in this, and my support for Ukraine isn't absolute.
(FWIW, after much contributions in r/Ukraine, my 2 reddit accounts (including my main one that had over 100 000 karma points) were banned from that subreddit, and now have been banned site wide. DMBFFF and Putinstartedthewar (Putin started the war) because I gave some slack for the Russians (and even DMCMNFIBFFF) got banned (different reasons, I think).)
Didn't Putin essentially tell Tucker Carlson that he doesn't think there really is such a thing as Ukraine?
MAGA sounds bad enough.
Yes, but Putin's authoritarianism isn't helpful to Russia, and his invasion of Ukraine kind of proves it.
Indeed, to this extent, it kind of parallels Trump.
Trump's taking Maduro was a relative cakewalk, but now he's again stuck in the "Forever War" in the Mid-East, in this case Iran. I'm sure a few in the state department told him, or would have loved to have told him, that invading Iran would be as "easily" as Iraq, except that Iran has more people, is (IIRC) over 2x the size, and has a lot more mountains.
Putin had a bit of a cakewalk in Crimea when Ukraine was, if you will and IIUC, fucking around and being corrupt. It was less easy for Putin when he started to stir things up in Donbas. Then 8 years later, he might have thought that he'd take Kyiv in 3 days, and now it's over 4½ years later. (perhaps not too much like Trump boasting that he'd settle the Russia-Ukraine problem the day he was elected—which was over 23 months ago)
For the cost of the war, Putin could have better developed Russia, or maybe land Russians on the Moon.
Now he'll be remembered as an authoritarian bully that wants to crush Ukraine, including murdering Ukrainians and trafficking Ukrainian children where they will be taught to hate Ukraine and kill Ukrainians, all because Ukraine won't bend the knee to the Kremlin and dallied with joining NATO, which Putin has made far more attractive to Russia's neighbors.
I'm not sure if I heard that. Controlling the governments of his neighbors would suffice, and getting Germany to leave NATO would be extra. He might be doing that with the AfD.
All of whom were dictators who murdered 10 000s if not 100 000s.
All who were very bad.
but back to my question:
I don't think any of them will have German chancellery, the French presidency, British prime ministership, nor the majority of their respective countries' legislatures: not this year, not next year, not before 2030, and perhaps not ever.