Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "TLDR News EU"
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@TruenoBestWaifu
...Really? The country that bombed civilian hospitals, tortured people (blacksites) on its own territory, illegally supported rebel factions in Syria and invaded Afghanistan, composed a coup d'etat in Libya and Iraq, has a piece of Cuba's sovereign territory, whose CIA tried to assassinate Julian Assange, sold weapons to Saudi Arabia (another dictatorship, totally ok though, NOTHING like Russia) to commit war crimes in Yemen, that overthrew countless democratic governments?
If anything, the US is even better than Russia in that regard. Who's really special here? You can list what Russia has done, but bear in mind the list above.
Everything Russia has been accused of, America has also done, in recent memory too. But only one of them gets punished for it. Ask yourself why.
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@stephenjenkins7971
Well, why would they? Mexico is a dysfunctional rump state of its former self.
It cannot (due to geography) project military power, and whatever soft power it manages to project are due to the large Mexican population in the US.
Mexico has been neutralized as a threat since the 1800s. So of course the US has no reason to be aggressive.
But looking back, when Mexico had much more territory, and was within striking distance of New Orleans, the US had no qualms about being aggressive, eventually taking 50% of Mexico's land.
In short, You seem to be looking at events backwards- "Mexico has good relations with the US because it doesn't present a threat."
The reality is, Mexico no longer presents a threat to the US, therefore, the US has good relations with it.
And that's fine, you might argue even logical.
But the US cannot simultaneously operate under that framework and pretend that its values are freedom and democracy (overthrowing elected socialist governments, even non-aligned ones, as recently as 2019, removes any deniability).
I just wish the US was honest about its imperial position.
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@TheHamsta101
Or maybe, they don't like their country being split apart along arbitrary lines?
Or, if along ethnic lines, then inconsistently applied across Europe?
No one at the UN or in washingston dc is calling for England to give back Northern Ireland or Scotland, or for Spain to give independence to Basque or Catalonia, or Brittany from France.
Hell, if we're going by ethnic lines, why is Republika Srpska a part of Bosnia?
Yet they froth at the mouth talking about Chechnya, Kosovo, Kurdistan, Uighurstan, and Crimea.
Can you spot a pattern?
Your real reasoning for wanting these changes isn't altruistic or good. It's playing into the plans of the Anglosphere to keep any potential competitors small and weak.
As it has been for centuries.
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It is an oligarchy, not a dictatorship. Putin does not control the oligarchs, merely manages their interests.
Same problem with Stalin- the West deliberately misinformed its citizens about the nature of USSR political structure to keep them motivated to contribute destroying it.
(I am not saying that Stalin was good, simple that he was not a total dictator, more like the captain of a team).
And I do not think anyone actually cares about international law- if violating these laws confers a benefit to the country in question, and the violations are being enforced unequally, then it makes no sense for Russia to stop.
The US government was summoned before the ICC for war crimes and allegations of torture in Afganistan and Palestine. In response, the US denied the charges and sanctioned the ICC.
Europe has not sanctioned the US over its human rights violations, has not made the lives of American citizens worse... so why is Russia treated differently?
If the "international community" truly cared about the principles, it would apply the same measures against the same crimes (human rights violations) committed by both countries. Yet, America gets to keep trading with the EU, because they and Europe are on the same team.
It was never about human rights. It is about limiting the influence of competing powers.
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@hunterkage2842
Doesn't really matter, the larger point you are making about the state of Russia's military is the same. And it's untrue either way.
I would need a source for that claim, since
1) Ukraine's gains were tiny, and Russia has already leapfrogged past Avdeevka, and
2) Russia hasn't launched an actual offensive yet. They are retaking towns but it's not an all-out assault like Ukraine did.
I'm also not sure what you mean by "cannibalize their own military". Russia does frequent rotations, and has 400,000 in reserve. Ukraine's President, by contrast, just signed a bill lowering the conscription age to 25.
Why would they need to do that if they weren't... say, cannibalizing their own military? They are running out of willing fighters, while Russia is just ramping up.
Same point with the economy— it is suffering not from contraction, but from overheating.
There is a labor shortage and unemployment is basically zero, so real wages are rising fast. The central bank needed to raise interest rates to cool the economy down or risk a meltdown.
Your next point is probably the funniest. I will grant that Ukraine does have Western weaponry, but most of it is older. And as German Leopards and Patriot missile systems smoldering in Ukraine right now show us, the supposed "advanced" nature of these weapons systems doesn't really matter in an actual wartime scenario.
They can all be taken down with a cheap drone costing maybe a few thousand dollars.
You can call it a sign of primitive development, I call it intelligent use of resources.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "demilitarizing his own military", can you give an example of a specific action that indicates that? Like a policy change or something. Smells like vague, wishful bs to me.
The gas export ban, so far as I can tell, is due to the increased consumer demand that I mentioned earlier (economy getting too hot and growing too quickly). It's also becoming spring, so people become more active, drive more, and drive up demand.
I am not sure what delusions you are harboring in your mind, but it is likely Putin planned this out in advance. The US would have turned Ukraine into a NATO member had they not intervened.
In case you forgot, the US has something of a track record with getting physically close to a country and then sending "freedom fighters" or "moderate rebels" in there to destabilize the country.
Not because the government is incompetent or bad (if that were the case, you would not be allied with Saudi Arabia) but because they don't like threats to their global power. Russia, apparently, is that threat. It's almost flattering.
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