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Russian Disinformation has been wildly successful
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Because of one simple reason: "Don't care as long as I get mine's", personified in Trump, fueled by the increasing disdain those that have wealth and power have had for their neighbors such that the don't mind living surrounded by shit because they feel they already are.
The average American is really, really dumb
Yes and the propaganda helped too. The billionaires in the US figured out how to get control of most of the media. It's a master class for the billionaires of the rest of the world. I imagine it won't take long for everyone else to start seeing that kind of propaganda as well.
really, really dumb
Really, really, >really ~really DUMB.
Tbh it’s basically the movie 300 without king Leonidas.
I feel a ton of sympathy for the besieged Ukrainians. But it does feel good to see the Russians give it to the US war machine after 17 months of the US funding, arming and enabling the most gruesome Israeli crimes against the occupied Pal's.
Man, I've seen some stupid shit in my time, but this has got to be top 20.
Villain-face Matthew Miller standing there with a smirk while defending and excusing Israel's atrocities was much dumber.
The people who will suffer from this are Ukrainians and Palestinians, the rich Americans who have spent decades benefiting from the US' hegemony will continue being rich without feeling the repercussions of the current administration's actions. The only Americans who will noticeably suffer from this are the ones who have already been suffering for a long time: Minorities, women, the poor, etc.
Trump’s destruction of diplomatic rules of the game is real, but the Democrats helped pave the way by funding, arming and defending Israel's atrocities in Gaza and beyond.
USA has hell to pay with nobody who will save them. They deserve 10 times what happend in gaza, iraq and afganistan
Trump is 100% a Russian asset, wild to see that after it was blatantly obvious the first go around we were like "yeah let's out a Russian spy back in the white house."
The important point isn’t even whether or not he is a Russian asset. He undoubtedly is, but that doesn’t actually matter. All that matters is that he’s acting like a Russian asset. He’s doing all the things a Russian asset would do. Ultimately, whether the orders are actually coming from Putin is irrelevant, because the end result is still the same.
Half the country have always been aware of it, but are powerless to stop it, the other half either voted for him because of it- or are in complete denial that it’s happening- right before their eyes.
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The president grovels to putin: This is an unprecedented loss of u.s. soft power and the world is judging America for it's cowardice.
The president, congress and every major media organization grovels to netanyahu: ....
This does look bad on our part but the main thing making us look bad on the world stage is our support for Israel. If you ask the average person outside of the west what they find most offensive about this administration they'll probably say its genocidal policy in gaza, not it's shakedown of an ally.
That’s just not true
Countries threatened by China care a lot more about this than Gaza
Maybe, but that's a small amount of countries / people. Mostly Taiwan and to a far lesser extent south Korea and Japan. Most other countries aren't threatened by China, and the few that are aren't allied enough with the u.s. to plan there defense around u.s. support.
Meanwhile the Israeli genocide has brought together the large swaths of the Muslim world with progressive anti colonial movements in the global south against Israel and the u.s.
The world isn't just the u.s. and its allies. Most people live in countries outside that political sphere, though most within it tend to forget that.
You are vastly underestimating the number of countries and people that feel threatened by China. It's a huge country that is pushing its grievances and interests in virtually every direction it can. The list of targetted countries includes Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan (Republic of China/ROC), Vietnam, Bhutan, India, Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Singapore...and more
You missed the:
and the few that are, aren't allied enough with the u.s. to plan there defense around u.s. support
None of those besides taiwan, japan and maybe Philippines are or should be planning there defense around u.s. support. The u.s. has no policy or interest in supporting a war over the south China sea.
Also Myanmar is more focused on there own civil war then any threats from China or the message this interview gave. If they were so threatened, they wouldn't have allowed China to be a mediator to end the conflict.
It wasn’t intentional. Trump followed Putin just as Vance followed Trump. He is just too stupid to have seen how this would play out.
Getting attacked by a foreign leader is such an effective way to rally your people behind you, that governments often fabricate external threats as a way to unify their nation. Putin knew the ways this could play out. The only more desirable result for Putin would’ve been Zelenskyy reluctantly accepting the agreement, but globally discrediting the US was a guarantee.
Putin was a KGB intelligence officer for 16 years before going to work for Yeltsin. The man outsmarts intelligence experts for fun. Trump’s ignorance and ego make him the perfect patsy, and the greedy Republicans in office have fully manifested into spineless yes men that are guaranteed to stay out of his way.
Another big winner here is China. I would love to know the contents of that meeting between putin and xi, I think back in 2022(?)
It wasn't disinformation - it is a pedophile who had minors delivered into his bed and was filmed during the atrocities. The resulting child pornography is what makes orange guy the lap dog of a psychotic killer.
The rest was easy with an asset that high in the ranks.
Could be. It could also just be bribes.
The current situation is really nice for countries like Russia, Saudi-Arabia and China. They just need to pay a few billion to Trump and get stuff that cannot be bought and are easily worth hundreds of billions from the US empire.
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It was mostly disinformation though, if you look at how most of the social media, and MSMs ran, it's mostly talking points from Russia in some form another
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You know, I can easily imagine the first part opening a lot of peoples eyes about Trump if they saw it on it's own. Add the second part and they are likely to throw it into the flat-earth bucket of statements.
I really wonder how much of the current situation in the US is because people would rather be smug and gloat over people with different politics then actually try to convince them.
Don't normalize imperialistic ambitions as a way to appeal to fascists. Ukraine should be supported, but not because of the need to maintain the hegemony.
Down with American imperialism. Long live the imperialism of their successor!
So in response to my argument that you shouldn't directly encourage imperialism you're arguing "but my empire is better than their empire." How very... insightful. I understand that you believe imperialism is a fundamental reality of international politics, but it's only because of tact shit like this that defeats internationalism.
Well, "my empire is better" is a very good argument when discussing which empire should run the world.
There's only 3 choices for who gets the hegemony right now, or is my knowledge out of date? There's USA, China, and Russia.
Curious who should take over if Americans should let go.
Let me give you an overview of our argument so far.
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I made a comment that the original language encourages a false dichotomy that justifies imperialism.
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You replied that there are only options that allow imperialism.
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I replied that's a false dichotomy.
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You replied they're the only options.
In the meantime we've got the history non-aligned movement and the history of imperial ambitions being inherently self destructive and leading to fundamental overreach that destroys the very states that attempt them because they start to believe that absolute nonsense that you seem to. The frank truth is, neither the US, Russia, or China are CAPABLE of being a true hegemony. All three of them have serious issues even maintaining their own internal cohesion. Internationalism is the only rational path forward and these "realpolitik" takes are fundamentally a delusion derived from empires believing their own propaganda. Encouraging imperialist rhetoric is what allows fascists to thrive and results in idiotic interventionalism.
Ukraine should be supported because Russia is acting in an imperialistic manner, not because America has some danger of losing an ephemeral imperial power that it doesn't have in the first place.
A power balance would be more beneficial than the US rampaging without countries having other imperialists to align with.
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