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    3 years ago

    Germany is really going to freeze in winter and destroy its industry by rejecting Russian energy. Impressive.

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          3 years ago

          Yes and Barack Obama is a popular hero?! This makes no sense. Both are imperialist assholes who side with the industry against the common people.

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            3 years ago

            Both are imperialist assholes who side with the industry against the common people.

            Stop it, they don’t care. They like Xi Jinping and Putin.

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          3 years ago

          Compared to Vladimir Putin, I wholeheartedly agree. But he’s not young and the brain doesn’t always fare well with advanced age. Unfortunately, this happens arbitrarily to good and bad people and our science is afaik not yet advanced enough to cure it.

          That’s why there should be political processes to lessen the effects of such problems, if they arise. Declaring that one is the president until one’s death is antithetical to such processes.

          All this obviously applies to Biden also, but it seems to me that the US democratic process has successfully managed fight against the “forever leader” problem, even through Trump’s attempts to destroy it.

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            The problem is not the age of the ruler: wisdom is not correlated with age. Hell, i’ve met 15 year old kids who were more mature than politicians. The problem is centralizing power in the hands of select sociopaths, whoever they are.

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          Ukraine’s history of getting fucked by Russia is well known. Ukraine is fighting for its future, not to go back to being Moscow’s bitсh. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine proves why NATO is needed.

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              Please you are the one supporting Russia’s fascist leadership. Putin is a right-wing nationalist to his core.

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              Recall that Putin served in East Germany’s Stasi during the Cold War. Shoulder-to-shoulder with former Nazis, doing Nazi things. The guy is such relic that his his only response to opposition to his fascist failed state is to accuse them of fascism? That’s straight up projection.

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                Is this a joke or do you actually believe this? Any modicum of research would’ve shown you East Germany was the only part of Germany where former nazi’s actually faced punishment rather than promotions.

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                  So the where did the East Germans recruit their completely de-Nazi’d secret police? Pretty much everyone left in Germany at the end of WWII was in the party. The Soviets managed to create the foremost modern police state in East Germany from a blank slate? That’s pretty hard to believe. It’s entirely plausible and consistent that the SS that got caught behind the Iron Curtain cut a deal and suddenly became fervent communists.

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                  3 years ago
                  1. Russian fascism is also a nationalistic fascist tactic, by your definition.
                  2. Also, Nazism != Anglosphere supremacy, again by your logic.
                  3. Finally, the desire that Russia might stop attacking it’s neighbors doesn’t have anything to do with ethnic divides/supremacy myths. Ukrainians are your brothers. Stop killing them.