tbh any house in mayfair ought to be fair game for expropriation.
I havent seen anyone do that on here, if they do they're idiots, or more likely stooges. Of course he has agency!
Depends on your timescale of the word "new". Tensions like this are more like tectonic plates pushing against each other - feels stable enough until the earthquake.
Yes I read that too.
Interesting point about not having seen any of those...nor have I.All look to have been spread by Russia, so not seen any of them on here.
Analysts identify top 10 ‘war myths’ of Russia-Ukraine conflict
NewsGuard warns disinformation channels extend beyond sites and accounts with direct Kremlin linkswww.theguardian.com
I focus a bit more about the role of the west as it is where i live and where I have a miniscule degree of agency. Not much I can do about China
Sure but in the current crises the aggressor is clearly Russia and what does a defeat for imperialism look like in this case? It is a defeat for Russia, in whatever form that takes.
But OUR other thieving cunt who belongs at the end of a rope...
I take it this was directed at me. If so it is a strawman mischaracterisation - and one that smacks of the appeaser finger pointing variety.
no. let me put it this way: let's say that the united states comes in and ejects russia from ukraine. is that a defeat for imperialism? so, not imo whatever form that takes.
True, true. I was basically discounting that as a possibility.
I don’t know how much of ‘the west’s response is to do with concern for the people of Ukraine or their right to self determination and how much of it (the moves being made to defend Ukraine and cripple / punish Russia, the choice to ratchet up and play the game) are to do with concerns about what would happen next if they did not intervene.I havent seen anyone do that on here, if they do they're idiots, or more likely stooges. Of course he has agency!
The blame falls on imperialists playing the game. Playing the game requires agency. It also take two to play.
Every time an opponent plays a move we all lose.
I'm not pro war, nor am I accusing you of being an appeaser. So we can all be misunderstood. I'm just aware of a large section on the left who are looking too hard for excuses for the Russian war machine. Putin says he's reacting to NATO provocation and (some) people believe him. It may be true. But he does have a history of being a lying bastard. So does his nice neighbour in Belarus. It might all be the fault of Liz Truss as well, but I'm not convinced of that either.
i don't think liz truss can bear all the blame, some must be left for boris johnson
Thing is he’s made clear that the nato thing is way down on his list of claimed reasons, but people seem selective as to which of his grievances / explanations to take seriously.
It’s never all the fault of any one thing. Decades of incidents as well as the thrust of history (as exemplified by imperialism) have combined to bring us here. NATO and US expansion has played a part. Sabre rattling from idiots like Truss another one. And so has the support from, thankfully fairly small, numbers of lefties justifying the pseudo-republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Mostly tho it’s Putins desire to see a return to Russia being the prison house of nations.
There was one of these on R4 the other day. He was asked what he would do if captured by the Russians. 'Having seen (how exactly?) what the Russians do to theirs POWS, I won't get caught,' was his response, or words to that effect.I like to think the volunteers of The International brigades fighting Franco had much more brain than the stupid thick cunt interviewed in this article.
'Putin has to be stopped' - the Britons preparing to fight in Ukraine
We talk to some of the people responding to President Zelensky's appeal for foreigners to join in the defence of his countrywww.bbc.co.uk
Your solution to that desire for that protection was that the west didnt put enough weapons on the eastern border! A disastrous conclusion to make IMO.
Now you're making things up
