After a dozen or so staff were assassinated, everyone left chooses to be obsequious to save their own lives. No one dares to tell Putin that he’s making an unwise decision.

… and he had a pretty good run, considering. But he got too greedy, and so did his sycophants.

In the first month, I thought Russia would win. I thought their army was quite a bit better.

It’s fucked, and we were warned decades ago and did nothing but drill, baby, drill.

A lot of people will die. Which I’m pretty sure they’re fine with, less people= less expenses for social welfare programs, lower property values, and so on

“They” being the people in charge of our world-wide MegaForce economy, think JP Morgan and those who “serve” terms at The FED. (in actuality, they take turns reaming us, inflation is how central banks raise taxes without congressional approval).

I responded with links, where are yours? I guess you have no evidence. I’ve added a couple more, enjoy

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord’s_Resistance_Army

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Homosexuality_Act,_2023

You can start here. I stopped investigating once I saw video of “witches” being burned alive. I won’t provide a link to that.

Don’t be deceived, this church is a “face” church, and provides a mask of sensibility and veneer of respectability for the Christian faith.

In reality, they’re fleecing their parishioners just like every other, and making a bloody fortune on it. They should at least be forced to pay taxes like the rest of us.

If you want to see their true face, look at what they are doing in Uganda, for just one example.

USA only has 335 million people and it’s already on the risk of extinction just 250 years later after being born. China is what? 5,000 years and still going strong?

This comparison is ridiculous, USA is a former colony that wasn’t even founded until the 1700s; China is not a former colony, and has not been a cohesive nation for 5000 years for that matter.

Re not trusting western media, it’s foolish to trust any media on Earth, whether NY Times, BBC, Al Jazeera, or Pravda.

Re whataboutism, your points are pure whataboutism; not that whataboutism is wrong. It’s good to make comparisons, we all do it every day all day, and that won’t change no matter how it is labeled.

These are my criticisms to improve your argument for argument’s sake, nothing more.

I agree with you re integration of ethnic groups. Yes, I know it’s now called “genocide” by the UN now, but that’s pretty stupid in my opinion. A term that once meant the erasure of people by systematic murder has now been degraded to this fiasco definition. Of course China would want everyone to speak Chinese, why not?

Also agree with “American Exceptionalism”, that train left the station many decades ago and we’ve proven to be just one more empire. One can hope China doesn’t make the same mistakes, and continues to focus on China rather than being world police like the USA.

Using the UNs definition of genocide including “cultural genocide” means that every nation on Earth is and has been committing genocide. It’s an unfortunate definition, in my opinion;any distinction that applies to all loses its meaning.

This is goofy. Not one of us can wear whatever we want in USA (and many other countries). All sorts of rules on dress.

Dress codes for restaurants (jackets and ties required)… dress codes for schools (uniforms)… dress codes for jobs (uniforms)… dress codes for gas stations (no shirts, no shoes, no service)… dress codes for banks (can’t cover your face or wear sunglasses)…

This is a false issue, used to inflame the dumbest among us. Sadly, it still works.

Israel is doing exactly what it was made to do, why would the USA and UK betray their own creation? Especially since it’s working.

Because we made Israel for a reason, and it’s delivering.

USA and UK created Israel for a reason, and they’re fine with Israel’s actions.

Israel is doing what it was created to do.

This 20-year-old meme of a 40-year-old advertisement is getting somewhat tiresome.

Death is my only release

Trump was elected because of the permission structure.

No functioning republic would allow him past the primary. This is one of the unintended (joke) side effects of Citizens United and Super PACs, it just took a few years and billionaires are sharing the stage with Presidential victors, laughing. There’s a huge amount of money behind him, and he got more “free” press than anybody ever.

It’s not legal, but since we are ignoring subpoenas now it’s fine.

who knew the secret? Just don’t go

Also, Nazi, gaslighting, narcissistic, and especially whataboutism.

I don’t think Israel will accommodate this, see “Greater Israel”.

They want all of the land that God “gave” them, even though He’s not powerful enough to deliver it Himself for some reason.

Why wouldn’t other countries just not sanction us?

Because the vast majority of countries are dependent on the USAs financial system, odds are very good your country is dependent on that same system in thousands of ways. Especially Europe.

They hate America even as they depend upon it… and it’s even worse than that, as the USA is controlled by banking interests that have been around since the slavery days. Should America disappear tomorrow, another “financial center” will replace it, it’s an international web of financial interests.

Their only goal is profit, national concerns are irrelevant to them.

This isn’t even unusual, I’m surprised they didn’t do it sooner.

The USA is hopeful that there will be a civilian uprising, and will do anything in its power to make life in Iran as miserable as possible. Even as they complain about Iran’s killing of civilians, they will murder those same civilians.

Recall that over 500K Iraqis died to topple Hussein for the crime of killing 20K Iraqis.

Russia’s economy is smaller than California’s, don’t be silly.

He’s under an audit, you see. Those IRS audits are crazy, folks.

Give it about two more weeks.