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      geordi-no dabbing on the crackers

      geordi-yes Putin on the Ritz putin-wink

      (I formally declare Russians to be Non-white. ваши регистрационные документы придут по почте в ближайшее время.)

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    I find it incredibly funny that both libs and chuds think this is Putin trolling or playing some 4D chess to divide America, when in all likelihood, this was a purely honest statement if one applies even the slightest common sense:

    With Biden, at least Russia will always know that Biden will be pushing for the standard US foreign policy doctrine against Russia. There is a certainty behind Biden’s policy.

    With Trump, even if he somehow managed to become the true anomaly that re-establishes US-Russia ties (unlikely), then what happens after Trump steps down in 4 years?

    Who and what ensure that the new administration will not just tear up whatever agreement they had signed (not the first time, nor will it be their last time doing so) and re-impose sanctions and military hostility against Russia?

    What stops the US from exploiting the temporary truce under Trump to recoup and militarize the surrounding European states and plan for further NATO actions against Russia down the road?

    What is the deterrence here? There is none.

    Russia doesn’t need US military technology (it is already defeating NATO equipments at a fraction of the cost), it does not need US raw materials, it cannot fully utilize the Western export market anymore (Nord Stream was already bombed), it does not need computer chips (China’s indigenous chip makers can provide that), it does not need access to the dollar market (apart from the fact that Russia is no longer interested in the dollar, who can even guarantee that the US will not simply block their dollar access for the second and third time?), it already has nuclear weapons that readily retaliate if the US’s stick is simply not to nuke Russia. There is no incentive for compromise as well.

    Considering all that, Biden is indeed the more predictable candidate when it comes to handling US foreign policy against Russia. There is no doubt about it. Trump can say whatever he wants, but can he suppress the will and demands of the national security apparatus? What can he even guarantee when he steps down in 2028?

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      Americans act like their lives are Game of Thrones or Harry Potter or some shit where the Destiny of the World is in the hands of the individual, and that destiny is at risk of being changed because the individual is at risk of being defeated. And when I say Americans, I mean 50% voters and 50% government because it seems that they believe “materialism” means buying iPhone every year.

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    It’s interesting how American conservatives just kind of assume that their vision for the world and the visions other generally conservative political players have are in total agreement. At the end of the day most nations are playing for something different.

    (Well that and an actual officeholder making an official statement is gonna have a different calculus than disgraced talking heads or internet posters)

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    Would you believe a word that comes out of Putin’s mouth?

    Have some tea. It’s definitely not polonium-flavored.

    edit It is fascinating how abrupt and vocal a response I get here if I say something negative about Putin. It’s also fascinating how many upvotes those responses get. It makes the provenance of this community’s opinions fairly obvious.

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      edit It is fascinating how abrupt and vocal a response I get here if I say something negative about Putin. It’s also fascinating how many upvotes those responses get. It makes the provenance of this community’s opinions fairly obvious.

      debate-me-debate-me

      You sound exactly like Shapiro

      “People immediately telling me I’m wrong is proof that I’m saying the hard truth!”

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        Assuming the opposite would be silly and easy to manipulate.

        We should assume that he is lying, whatever he says.

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      No you’re right. Putin is lying. Biden’s mind is a haze and he is unfit for leadership. Putin is trying to psyop patriots into voting for a man who will destroy America.

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      Hey come on American Liberals, this whole Russian Federation thing was your idea, who do you think supported Yeltsin and Putin to power? Maybe if you don’t like him then you should take it up with the guys who gave him that job.

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          He was up to his crime bill bs then

          “We have predators on our streets that society has in fact, in part because of its neglect, created,” said Biden, then a fourth-term senator from Delaware so committed to the bill that he has referred to it over the years as “the Biden bill.”
          “They are beyond the pale many of those people, beyond the pale,” Biden continued. “And it’s a sad commentary on society. We have no choice but to take them out of society.” Joe Biden, November 1993

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      You get this reaction because we’re anti war and you goons are only going to get millions of people killed trying to start shit. You’ve already gotten a million Ukrainians killed, and for what? Shit should have been negotiated at least 18 months ago when the writing was already on the wall but liberals wanted to sacrifice limitless lives just to hurt russia for the sake of american supremacy.

      May I remind you that Putin is literally the person liberals chose to run the country after you overthrew socialists? You fucks want him over us. Liberals literally created modern russia.

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        If you’re as “anti war” as you claim then you should be pointing all the blame for Ukrainian deaths at the country which invaded them, and the man who ordered the invasion.

        The Russian military got Ukrainians killed. Period.

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              I’ve never gotten an answer when I ask this, and it is honestly a sincere question. If I believed all the lib propaganda about the war, then I would have been in the first reddit brigade to get merced. I can’t imagine believing all that shit, saying it’s necessary and then just hiding behind a desk.

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                Same here

                I once had a lib say that any Ukranian who didn’t volunteer to fight is an absolute coward, which they posted from an air conditioned room in the middle of the US

                I pointed out that Ukraine still accepts volunteers and if they think that it’s cowardice to not fight, they were welcome to join up. Dead silent after that

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              Nononononono

              Liberals believe OTHER PEOPLE should die for their beliefs, which are obviously worth doing for, just not for them.

              Obviously them having those beliefs makes them too important to actually risk their own well being.

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            “The war began 12 April 2014, when a fifty-man commando unit headed by Russian citizen Igor Girkin seized Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast. […] Russia covertly supported the separatists with troops and weaponry. It only admitted sending “military specialists”, but later acknowledged the separatists as Russian combat veterans. […] By late August 2014, Ukraine had re-taken most separatist-held territory and nearly regained control of the Russia–Ukraine border. In response, Russia covertly sent troops, tanks and artillery into the Donbas.”

            There are plenty of sources listed in the Wikipedia article if you need them. The fighting in Donbass was a territorial annexation conducted by Russia against Ukraine and a precursor to the full-scale invasion that began in 2022. It’s no coincidence that this occurred at the same time as the invasion of Crimea.

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              So you basically only have a very very basic understanding fed to you via anonymous completely unverifiable people that built a narrative using entirely western sources?

              What’s your opinion on the 2014 coup?

              What’s your opinion on the language law change that sent 3 regions of Ukraine into revolt seeking independence because they genuinely feared for their lives?

              What’s your opinion on the trade unionists being burned alive?

              What’s your actual opinion? Not whatever you can google and dredge up to repeat from a completely different person as if it is your own view. What is YOUR opinion. When is the last time you actually investigated something and formed your own opinion rather than regurgitating someone elses?

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              There are plenty of sources listed in the Wikipedia article if you need them.

              the geopolitical understander has logged on, it’s over lads

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              What do you think about Ukraine being a Nazi haven and Ukrainian fighters committing ISIS-style war crimes/using illegal cluster munitions in the Donbas? Curious for your opinion!

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              On that basis, do you think it was justified for Ukraine to bomb the region, kill people living there (which presumably they should want to save from Russia), and violate their ceasefire agreement?

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          So it is already apparent that you think NATO encircling it’s enemies and waging war around the world is all good and fine but did you ever stop to question why, what am I getting out of this? Upholding neoliberal US hegemony harms everyone and helps no one.

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      ‘anything negative about Putin’

      Not anything, we would be fine with criticisms of him from a communist perspective. But you are regurgitating the shallow, chauvinistic Liberal criticisms of him and we can identify that

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        Right, criticizing him for poisoning political opponents is “shallow”…

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          having some marvel movie level “have some tea. it’s definitely not polonium flavored” quip entirely unrelated to anything and with no further elaboration is

          1. not “criticizing him for poisoning political opponents” (which political opponents? where is the criticism? referencing something isn’t a criticism, jackass)

          and

          1. incredibly shallow, even if we were to generously forgive you for 1), it would be like, the most absolutely shallow “criticism” one could ever possibly make. It’s like if I gave you some quip about Hillary Clinton and how you shouldn’t work for a Clinton administration if you have a handgun or any history of depression and act like it’s some big ass mic drop moment where you’re btfo’d and said I levied a serious criticism against the Clintons

          it’s the most liberal shit since liberals first shat, liberal

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      edit It is fascinating how abrupt and vocal a response I get here if I say something negative about Putin. It’s also fascinating how many upvotes those responses get. It makes the provenance of this community’s opinions fairly obvious.

      smuglord

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      contextually, sure

      what he says about this has no baring on the outcome - if he said the opposite or was lying, would that change anything? I don’t think it would. It seems like a pretty candid observation. Maybe a Trump presidency brings about a negotiated settlement to Russian/Ukranian war – maybe ol’ Donny gets a bug in his pants over something someone says on television and doubles down, hyper commits, no-fly-zone; Cold War 2 becomes World War 3. I’d rather have Biden as an opponent, if I were in Putin’s position.

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        Am I not good enough for snarky replies? was I being too reasonable? Punish me for my sins, punch them holes in my echo-chamber daddy

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      It makes the provenance of this community’s opinions fairly obvious.

      “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.” marx-war

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      edit It is fascinating how abrupt and vocal a response I get here if I say something negative about Putin. It’s also fascinating how many upvotes those responses get. It makes the provenance of this community’s opinions fairly obvious.

      We haven’t had any smug posting redditors come in a while, don’t mistake us making fun of you for thinking anything but russia-cool

      But also gtfo lib

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      Lmao I’ve talked shit on Putin and gotten plenty of positive engagement. You think anybody here actually likes putin or Russia being a capitalist regime that hates on LGBT and personalfreedoms? It’s because you didn’t say anything new. You exhausted your wit with that glib polonium remark. We don’t trust putin and we don’t trust the state department on putin. You shouldn’t either. What can be observed, somewhat impartially, are the things these entities do and their geopolitical machinations come into a degree of focus.

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      edit It is fascinating how abrupt and vocal a response I get here if I say something negative about Putin. It’s also fascinating how many upvotes those responses get. It makes the provenance of this community’s opinions fairly obvious.

      michael-laugh

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      That edit is just primo. Site tagline material.

      “it is fascinating how people disagree with me and those comments get more upvotes than my reddit-ass comment. This proves you are all Russian trolls, how dare you compare me to a liberal Alex Jones.” alex-oopsie

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      Yes. There is no reason I see for him to lie in this case. Would it have mattered if he said Trump? No because Republicans would vote for him regardless.

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      Is this a bit?

      Like do you actually believe people are dunking on you because you said something negative about Putin? Is this the explanation in your head?

      Because in reality, people are dunking on you because you had the smug audacity to waltz in here and drop “Actually, I know better because I read a lot of headlines but not a lot of articles, and Putin is literally always a liar, and he physically can’t be telling the truth about preferring Biden over Trump, and you guys are idiots for believing this”.

      You know, instead of challenging the idea that Biden might actually be just as much of a useful idiot for Russia as Trump would be, but a more predictable one

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      It’s not the saying something negative about put in that sets us off, it’s the implication in your post that this somehow vindicates the russia gate bullshit, and support of the Biden regime.

      Fuck putin I hope he dies painfully immediately

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      It is fascinating how abrupt and vocal a response I get here if I say something negative about Putin. It’s also fascinating how many upvotes those responses get. It makes the provenance of this community’s opinions fairly obvious.

      “It is fascinating to me how many people come to dunk on me and provide me with more information and context when I uncritically regurgitate the most trite of talking points on a subject I know fuck all about. It’s also fascinating how many upvotes the responses get. It makes it fairly obvious that this community doesn’t like it when you just talk out of your ass.” Here fixed it for you.

      What’s fascinating to me is how hostile you are to being challenged on your beliefs, and how much of a sniwelling coward you are that you’d rather subtweet about people instead of either educating yourself or engage with those that challenge you.

      You’re a pissy little weasel with no ability for critical thought. Go back to your echo chamber.

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        What’s fascinating to me is how hostile you are

        You’re a pissy little weasel with no ability for critical thought.

        The irony… it hurts…

        Go back to your echo chamber.

        Hilarious.

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          Here, you forgot the rest of the sentence

          What’s fascinating to me is how hostile you are to being challenged on your beliefs

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          Did you miss the part where I explained why we were hostile to you? I know reading is difficult, but I think you should really give it a go! You’d learn something.

          Of us you’re the only one who fears new information. As so many have already written noone here is mad because you critique Putin, but because you’re writing the most inane toddler-level mushbrained takes.

          Also seriously what’s up with the dorky way you guys write? Do you come from the same factory?

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      Are you a flat earther because putin said the earth is round? Also do you hate vaccines just because Putin endorses vaccines?

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      Would you believe a word that comes out of Putin’s mouth?

      I’m curious what you think his motives for lying would be in this situation? To try and trick Libs into voting for Trump? Cuz that’s not gonna happen. If anything this alienates is supporters in the US among the far right so this doesn’t strike me as a 5D Backgammon move, I think it’s just his genuine opinion.

      edit It is fascinating how abrupt and vocal a response I get here if I say something negative about Putin.

      smuglord

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        Honestly all that needs to be said. Also, I love how all the debate perverts go quiet when they’re the ones who start shit. It’s because they don’t know what they’re talking about, but still. I’d like them to have a little more fortitude in their positions.

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          Yeah, I haven’t got the energy or the time to respond to all of the groupthink responses I get here. It’s so thick even Hanlon couldn’t cut it.

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        We will ban you if you insult, demean or harass anyone. That is not welcome behavior. This is distinctly different than ribbing or grilling someone.

        Moderators are held to a higher standard than other community members. If a moderator creates an inappropriate situation, they should expect less leeway than others.

        From a regular user, I’d just pass this by as “ribbing” per the code of conduct, but you’re not just a regular user.

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      You are a baby and you have the political literacy of a baby. Instead of coming here to spout your inane conspiracy theories I would recommend you get help for your derangement.

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      You are getting the opposite of updoots here because it is readily apparent to everyone else that major political figures including, even especially Putin, are not to be taken at face value, but the great news is that because of the science of historical materialism, we don’t have to, we can observe material conditions and deduce for ourselves. So what happens when you come here and state the obvious is that you reveal your own ignorance and immediately get tagged as team vote

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        Liberals believe they have the unquestionable right to lecture others on subjects they know nothing about.

        Fear not, Don Quixote is here to disabuse you of your delusions! You’re mistaking those giants for windmills! Wake up you stupid sheeple!

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      PIGPOOPBALLS