I like to think that I have a decent grasp of the world, particularly as a Marxist. But sometimes I really struggle to get into the settler cultural mindset. I don’t want to read Settlers at this point in time because I’m already depressed and angry enough. I just can’t believe how quickly all of this became normal.

Yeah I wasn’t paying attention to the comm. Still though, it should surely be a major topic. I don’t understand the American people at large.

24 comments, zero about the American/Israeli genocide. Stay classy yanks!

You’re just splitting hairs. They used the Minsk peace negotiations to buy time to prepare for war, “to become stronger”… and not for actual peace. This is a fact that you have to accept.

Later Hollande corroborated the admission.

“Yes, Angela Merkel is right on this point. Since 2014, Ukraine has strengthened its military posture. Indeed, the Ukrainian army was completely different from that of 2014. It was better trained and equipped. It is the merit of the Minsk agreements to have given the Ukrainian army this opportunity.”

The “merit” of peace agreements to prepare for war.

It’s relevant because understanding the root cause of the war is critical to defending your mind from the propaganda you’re being constantly subjected to.

Up to a week before the invasion Ukraine was threatening to install nukes and minimise Russia’s response time. This is a security threat that no state can tolerate. You know full well that the USA wouldn’t tolerate anything remotely similar.

This war was started by the USA overthrowing Ukraine’s democracy in 2014 and installing a puppet Banderite Nazi government designed to be a proxy for NATO to threaten Russia. The US believed they could take over Russia again and loot and pillage it like they did in the 90s. They lost control of it with the Iraq war, when Putin refused to help them murder a million plus Iraqis. He was supposed to be their tame, controlled dictator of the place that they were selling off to their oligarchs for pennies.

This was all well understood and known before the massive propaganda avalanche after the 2022 invasion (that Russia tried to avoid for the 8 years prior). Absurd repetition of the “Unprovoked” invasion, reinventing history to spin a yarn about Russia just deciding to invade to steal land etc.

• Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
• Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements

Most people think they’re immune to propaganda, or that it’s just not happening to them, it happens to people in foreign countries.

Here’s the news before the invasion:

Forbes - Ukraine Deradicalized Its Extremist Troops. Now They Might Be Preparing A Counteroffensive

The Hill - Congress bans arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazis

Years of the Western (BBC) Media Admitting to Extremism Among Azov Military Units:

BBC - Outside Source, (March 23, 2022)

BBC - Torch-lit march in Kiev by Ukraine’s far-right Svoboda Party (2014)

BBC - Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine: NEWSNIGHT (2014)

BBC - Ukraine conflict: ‘White power’ warrior from Sweden (2014)

BBC - Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict (2014)

BBC - Ukraine’s most-feared volunteers (2015)

BBC - The far-right group threatening to overthrow Ukraine’s government - Newsnight (2015)

BBC - Ukraine: On patrol with the far-right National Militia - BBC Newsnight (2018)

BBC - Ukraine coat of arms in UK anti-terror list furore (2020)

BBC - Behind Belarusian ‘far-right mercenary’ claims (2021)

Al Jazeera - Ukrainian fighters grease bullets against Chechens with pig fat (2022)

The Hill - The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda (2017)

These are all western sources. This was real reporting. I think the question you have to answer is were they lying then? Or are they lying now?

To your knowledge, what was the reason Russia invaded Ukraine?

Edit: I guess BadEmpanada has an account here.

I think it may be because you appeared to be speaking out of both sides of your mouth on this. I remember when that video came out and it was at a very sensitive time for the subject. MLs were inundated with demands for refutations by anarchists, trots and other assorted liberals. He caused a huge amount of damage with his bullshit. I’ll never forgive him for it.

I just found this while I was googling for Dr Asatar Bair’s debunking of his bullshit.

He once made a video about the “Uyghur Genocide”. That’s already enough to know the level of the guy.

You could also take it to mean that it’s compromised by the west.

This isn’t a doom story?

That 20% has been liberated from the fascists Ukrainian state that was trying to ethnically cleanse it. They want no part in its elections.

The Ukrainian constitution prevents Parliamentary elections during wartime, not Presidential ones.

But you see, when the imperialists are being beaten with a stick, they’re not much happier when it’s the peoples’ stick!

Taps forehead smugly.

Neither side tried to get rid of student loan debt. One side just pretended to try.