eh every geopolitical event is related and has a hundred causal factors. Brexit wouldn't have occurred without the Syrian war, it was the refugee crisis that created the public support for breaking away from the EU. It wasn't until a bunch of women were groped on news years at cologne that the anti-immigrant wave reached a strong enough pitch to push the UK away. And sure, that's only possible because the UK was never really invested in the EU to begin with and always had cold feet, because of government distrust, because of economic factors with the push and pull of austerity and overspending on social programs they couldn't afford, blah blah blah. For the purposes of the Ukraine parallel, I think the main takeaway is that the europes willingness to absorb all the refugees of the world and pay for the welfare of shithole countries, has limits. That Putin could exploit it to drive a wedge into the EU and break it up, that the EU wasn't interest in being the benefactors of Ukraine.
I do think that at a wider lens, the fact that we even have to play around with the idea of calling the UK racist for not being willing to bear the cross of every brown person in the world, when every non-western country is self-interested and largely homogenous and xenophobic, is demented. It shows how self-destructive the baizuo movement has been. How many Ukrainian refugees are being resettled in Japan and South Korea and Vietnam? 300-400? A whole basket of deplorables

as predicted. snipestradamus is never wrong.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Apr 22 2022 08:14am

if you are threatening to become a pedo out of spite just cause you saw someone condemn pedophilia at a time when children get sent by their parents to dance on stage in strip clubs & get tens of thousands of upvotes on social media - that is your problem

If you think you ever have a point, please do a separate topic for that, with proofs.

Causality of the Ukraine war

Putin's regime => Keep imposing the oligarchy-kleptocracy => Successve fails in keeping puppets in charge => End up to start an invasion to "liberate" Ukraine.
Nato/Us/Eu => Are proposing to Ukraine to join them => Support for revolt/protests => End up to give intelligence and military support to Ukraine.
Ukrainian people => Want to get rid of Putin's regime => Maidan revolt in 2014 want join EU => Elect Zelensky with 73% of votes in 2019 => Take the arms and fight.

My preference: more like Russia's fault. But does Putin's regime really representing Russians ?

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Apr 22 2022 08:48am

ok bro, this u on the right side btw ?

Stop your spam and personal attacks please, else i will be forced to report you to goblins

They can quit acting like orcs.

75minutes video, probably one side propaganda. Probably waste of time, but maybe i watch it, idk.
Putin's Russia is simply an evil country, that wants to rebuild its old evil empire.
They want to enslave other nations. Sometimes they success without war, like in Belarus, other times they need war like in Ukraine.
Countries can choose their own friends, their own trade partners, their own alliances.
Now in the age of long-distance nukes, and Russia's nuclear submarines everywhere in the world, nobody sane can even think about attacking Russia, whether we like it or not.
And for sure not the democratic liberal countries. So its all BS that NATO countries scare them.
Eastern Europe resists Russia attacks and occupation for 250years already, with only some peacetime breaks. Nobody here wants to be russian slave. When we (Poland) were under Russian occupation, monthly salary here was just 20usd, all the best goods like meat were forcibly exported to Russia at low or no cost, shops here were pretty much empty and there were queues for hours. Our elites and opposition were being killed. In exchange Russia gave us only trash like bad for our health asbestos, that they had plenty to spare. Not to mention numerous rapes by Russian soldiers. And we can still consider ourselves lucky as a country, as we didnt have a "great hunger" , that Russian applied to Ukraine.
My uncle was a polish policeman, and as such "potentially dangerous person who knows how to use arms" was deported to Russia's cold Syberia. Never made it to come back home.
Why do you give Russians law to enslave other countries?

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regardless of your inclination, that video is quite informative. While you might call it propaganda, I would instead have called it an early warning system (which failed, as it was not heeded), or common sense (but that the powers that be pursued their own course of alternative "common sense").

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 22 2022 09:00am