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So a few things.

If the election weren’t legitimate, why do Crimeans still stand by the decision they supposedly made at gunpoint to this day? Why don’t they remember there being Russian soldiers being present during the referendum? Why would Ukrainian citizens be welcomed into Crimeans communities now if this had simply been a nationalist land grab? Why didn’t Ukraine invest in Crimean infrastructure and social services between 1991 and 2014? Why would Russia invest in that same infrastructure and social services post 2014? Why weren’t Russian citizens allowed to vote in the referendum, only Ukrainians with Crimean residency?

https://www.mintpressnews.com/return-russia-crimea-story-referendum-lives-since/262247

Comparing this situation to the relationship between the US and Iraq/Basra is grotesque and intellectually dishonest so there’s no point in discussing that further.

Not only that, elected and career US officials were present and active in the events.

If you’re trying to claim that these events were driven by “Russian interference,” I have some hacked voting machines to sell you.

The US effectively did. There’s no other explanation for why US elected and career officials were present in Ukraine during small and violent anti-government protests, and there’s no other explanation for how and why the US state department chose the next leader of Ukraine after the democratically elected and widely supported President Yanukovych was forced to flee in fear for his life. Ukraine for all practical purposes lost its sovereignty in February 2014.

If you’re talking about the small peninsula of Crimea, the residents of Crimea democratically chose to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia.

It’s not easy, but it’s very much worth taking some time to understand what sovereignty and democracy actually mean, both in theory and in practice.

Yes, in 2004 and 2014 by covert and “diplomatic” US forces.

This has never been about sovereignty and always about maintaining hegemonic imperialist control.

Indeed, accurate information is far less available in the US.

The leadership absolutely saw this coming, not only that but they have aided the whole process. Current cabinet members such as Baerbock and Habek were trained by US institutions to serve those institutions and the US capitalist class.

It must be said that while the French did do well to choose nuclear, their fuel comes in large part from colonial resource extraction arrangements in Africa. Hardly secure, although much more reliable and environmentally friendly than coal or gas.

France imports solar electricity from Germany during the day because Germany installed too much solar without the necessary storage capacity. This power is often sold at a negative price because it’s not needed but must go somewhere. Germany imports nuclear electricity from France and coal electricity from Czechia and Poland at night because it doesn’t have enough baseload capacity.

Let’s be real here, the Federal Republc of Germany has done nothing of importance since 1945 without at least consent, if not by the instruction, of the US empire. The post war industrialization was funded with US capital for the benefit of the US capitalist class, and now the deindustrialization is for the benefit (at least they perceive it this way) of the US capitalist class.

I think it would be more than embarrassing, it would be destabilizing to admit that the Federal Republic is ultimately little more than a US vassal.

Sucks to be a US vassal.

The US government has certainly invested in private space programs. SpaceX is just one very expensive and prominent example.

Following in the footsteps of PayPal freezing the account of Mint Press, Wikileaks being smeared, etc. Anti-imperialist voices will be silenced by the empire, by force if necessary.

This is also only the tip of the mud iceberg The Grayzone has been dragged through, and only because they report on uncomfortable facts.

The west never had freedom for anything except capital.

Famine in Africa is inevitable because of imperialist resource extraction and oppression. For example food “aid” is distributed (actually sold) by the US to keep resource rich nations dependent on imports of food staples, and policies by institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, and USAID prevent resource rich countries from developing their own agriculture in order to be self sufficient. Once the natural resources are all extracted and shipped off to the imperial core, the food imports will also dry up (as there’s no more foreign exchange to buy it), and these countries will collapse. If you don’t believe me you can read it from the World Bank itself.

The world can more than handle the projected global population peak. Imperialism cannot.

Holy eugenics Batman

Commends me on engaging some of the content in good faith.

Then makes bad faith arguments based on strawman arguments, demonstrably false information, and racist concern trolling to shut down my other salient points and project deflection on to me.

Sorry I just can’t with the hypocrisy here. Maybe I am shooting myself in the foot, but I just can’t with this kind of western bullshit. All for open dialog until someone challenges their worldview.

“Anti-CCP” is anti-China. The whole “hate the government not the people” charade is just a lame cover for racism and imperialism. Even the simple use of the incorrect “CCP” rather than the correct CPC is enough to indicate a person’s stance.

The sources linked even discuss how China is increasing social spending in a multitude of ways, but all that information is left out and instead the spectre of “overcounted or inflated numbers and sugar-coated CCP policies” and western concern trolling tells the story.

I’m not quite sure. The whole situation is really strange.

That’s what I’ve gone for. I use Obsidian as an editor on Android. It’s not ideal but the best I’ve found so far. On desktop I use Pulsar and sometimes micro.