Quote (fender @ Jan 19 2023 11:41pm)
what a moronic spin that is, lol. ukrainians are fighting because they reject russia's ideology, they don't want to become pootin's puppet, just another region of a failed petrostate. unsurprisingly they prefer the freedom and prosperity that their european neighbours in the west have. NATO isn't forcing them to do anything, they are literally BEGGING for equipment to fight back the russian invaders.
does all of this play perfectly into the hands of the bloody americans? unfortunately yes, contracts for military equipment and their shitty LNG are skyrocketing, european nations are completely hyperventilating and overestimating the threat that russia's conventional military is to NATO members, but that's not a result of biden's masterful calculation, but rather one of pootin's horrible blunder of underestimating just how much ukraine detests them. his failed invasion is driving a region that could have lifted russia out of its poverty firmly back into the greedy clutches of america. you aren't seriously suggesting that biden somehow MADE pootin try to annex ukraine, are you? sleepy joe, who can't even string a full sentence together... xD
russia and ukraine have the exact same ideology
failed post socialist states with mass poverty and world class corruption controlled by oligarchs
a bit more or less democracy does not change the framework here
and when this is over ukraine will be americas bitch for decades to come, paying off mountains of debt, while the west grabs its resources for pennies and after the oligarchs take their cut its back to normal
we dont disagree on ukraine as much as you think with your pootin obsession, but the future looks rough for ukraine imo
they are lightyears away from western "prosperity" or democracy and that wont change whatsoever even if they get all their territory back
the next step in the playbook is shitloads of money flowing into black holes in ukraine and firearms coming out of there