Nice testing ground, eh?



This post was edited by Norlander on Feb 24 2025 07:11pm

Which way do you think the war is going right now?

just gonna leave this here again, welcome to 85% of Russia
Now its going to get even worse since Russia needs propaganda image of "rebuilding" new territories, or maybe again just have central asians build shitty boxes like in Marikpool that started falling apart before russians who bought them moved in, either way sucks to be russian indoor toilet not moving any closer to being reality for average russians living outside 5 largest cities.

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There, one can find answers to many questions, in particular: why a million Ukrainians fled to Russia if it's worse there, and why emigrants are so afraid to return to defend their homeland from Russian alcoholics and toilet thieves.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1iwd2x9/im_a_soldier_of_the_azov_brigade_and_i_survived_a/

Reddit hosts a nice AMA with a... Nazi

Yes, its a big and poor country, we've known this for over a century.
They have 11 time zones, and the economy has not improved much at all since 1991.
Still solvent and outproducing all of NATO's combined arms factories, so at least they got something right.

If I want to conclude that all politicians lie (and therefore imply that it's okay that Trump and Putin lie every chance given) I just can't use my own expactations that everybody lies as reasoning, that's not how logic works.

I can find a lot of straight up verifiable lies by Trump and Putin - if you can't do that easily for Zelensky, their relation to the truth is clearly not the same.

Tldr (not for you personally but for jsp in general): stop spouting russian propaganda, Putin (and his buddy Trump) lie a lot. Look at independent sources, look at data, form your own opinion. if your opinion is based on your facebook feed, fox news shows that they themselves claim are lies or tirads from your racist uncle, put it in the trash.

EU offers its own ‘win-win’ minerals deal to Ukraine

The European Union offered its own agreement on "critical materials" to Ukraine on Monday, just as U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Washington was close to inking a deal with Kyiv for the rights to its vast natural resources.

Source: Politico

https://www.politico.eu/article/critical-minerals-rare-earths-deal-eu-not-donald-trump/

Anyway since we're three years into Russia's invasion and 11 years in since tha Maidan I'm going to ask the questions I've asked ever since Ukraine started existing in the western consciousness

Does anyone have a means to explain why western ukraine, after overthrowing a democracy, should be able to lay claim to the disenfranchised separatist regions of the east in the DPR/LPR/Crimea? Why are their independence and annexation referendums illegitimate but the post coup government supposed to be legitimate? What do any of the United States, Europe or Ukraine stand to gain by prolonging a losing war where we have not and will not invest the strength necessary to defeat Russia but only bleed both sides, to our strategic detriment in a multipolar world when China is the real competition?
Why are we sending heavy weapons to Nazi war criminals?
Why do democrats see Nazis in every hand gesture and written in their alphabet soup but not on the guys with swastika tattoos and passing out copies of mein kampf and protocols of the elders of zion?