Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Did a US Marine Join the Russian Army to Serve in Ukraine" video.

Honestly, don’t we want antivaxxers to move to Russia? This is more of a win for us than a win for Russia.
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@thryce82 I get what you’re saying, but political opinion shouldn’t matter in this day and age as long as you’re willing to keep your politics out of your job. So there’s irony involved when an anti-statist goes and works for the state. But in the cases of certain militant groups (neonazis and other white supremacist groups seeking to overthrow our constitutional order), it’s not ironic. Infiltration of law enforcement and the armed services is part of their plan, because the police and military are the biggest obstacle to these fascist seizing power. The military already admits that it has a problem with WSs and Nazis enlisting/infiltrating to recruit others to their cause. Police agencies are beginning to discover this is a problem in their ranks as well, worse than merely racist cops.
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⁠ @Nuinwing It’s like the running joke in the TV show Community, where one of the characters (Britta) becomes associated with failure. Although I’ll admit an entire country adopting the joke of an entire country fucking up is much more impressive than a TV show’s ongoing gag. When I was a kid (in America), we told Polack jokes. We told lots of different racist/nationality jokes because America is the land of equality, but the Polacks were all associated with being dumb. “How many Polacks does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three. One to climb up the ladder and two to turn the ladder.” But we never turned the word Polack or the name of the country into a verb or descriptor for being dumb or doing something dumb. I remember taking a Scandinavian vacation and hearing the same joke in Norway and Sweden, the only difference being that the nationalities were switched. In Sweden: Did you hear about the Swedish psychopath that escaped from the insane asylum? They eventually found him teaching school in Norway. And vice versa in Norway. National rivalry jokes are as old as the day is long. In the U.S. we also have regional and state rivalry jokes (including a lot of jokes about Texas). But the jokes haven’t entered the vocabulary like Russian jokes have entered the Finnish language. Bravo to the Finns. But the real credit goes to Russia for being so ryssiä. 😂
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@2138Dude Wait, are you saying that the bastion of truth Tucker Carlson wasn’t entirely forthcoming about his trip to Russia? I find that very hard to believe.
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@craigplatel813 During that time I knew a guy in high school that joined the Marines and was forced out in basic. He was a social misfit, had a gun fetish, and was an intolerable weirdo in a place where we tolerated weirdos. He was always talking about enlisting in the Marine Corps throughout high school. Anyway, he was basically PTed until he quit. I think there were some extracurricular beatings involved, too. He got out on a medical discharge thanks to some outside help (either someone with connections or a lawyer depending on who tells the story). And that’s the last I heard of him.
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@Lobos222 Fundamentalism: I have the right to do whatever I want to do, and you have the right to do whatever I want you to do.
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@BR-it2qe It doesn’t matter. It’s not illegal to act contrary to the national interest as long as you’re not committing a crime in doing so. We are not currently at war with Russia in any formal sense.
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@enoughrope1638 If he fought on the side of a declared enemy with whom we were in an active declared war, he’d have problems. That’s not the current situation, so 🤷🏻‍♀️. But his current course of action could (and might have already) lead to his passport being revoked. That would cause problems and headaches when/if he tried to return. But there is no general law against an American acting contrary to our “national interests”.
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⁠ @kemarisite That’s 100% correct. A state won’t even be considered for NATO membership while it has an unresolved border dispute with another country. And this is another argument against the Kremlin contention that the 2022 invasion was necessary to keep Ukraine out of NATO. All Russia had to do was hold Ukraine and continue the “border rebellion” in Donetsk and Luhansk. Urkraine would never be able to join NATO while Russia was taking little nibbles, even if Ukraine relinquished its claim on Crimea. The Russian Federation had always had the means to prevent non-NATO countries on its periphery from joining NATO. This should also put to rest the “Realist” theories of John Mearshimer and his ilk.
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