Well, now that Russia is occupying an American lithium field, maybe the US will say Russia is attacking the US.

I wonder if the whole point of the mineral deal with Ukraine was to create a new cassus belli

Oh yeah, I got spam bombed by one but also got harassed by a few others.

Unsolicited abusive DMs - such a common trope among reactionaries

Love that libs are down voting actual truth because it comes from RT instead of BBC

Punch a tree until it falls. Make an axe out of wood. Use it to chop more trees down. Find shelter for the night. Build a crafting table. Wait until sunrise. Run around until I find sheep. Kill them for wool. Make a bed.

And this is why you are ignorant

Brandt’s remarks are a reminder that many Social Democrats are still reluctant to embrace the country’s “Zeitenwende” — a historic turning point — on defence, which former SPD chancellor Olaf Scholz declared in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Wow what weasely writing. The Social Democrats don’t want to build up another German military-industrial nightmare and the press says they are still reluctant to embrace austerity in favor of world war.

Well. The social democrats are going to lose, like they always do in an economic crisis, and many will die because of it.

Do you get this paranoid when you see an article from the BBC?

Oh fuck I didn’t even read the rest of your drivel.

Japan was LITERALLY NEGOTIATING SURRENDER when the US nuked two civilian cities.

WW2, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iranian coup, death squads in Latin America

What are you even taking about?

That opinion article is absolute trash.

The idea that the Bolsheviks fought to preserve the boundaries of the Tsarist empire, including invading Ukraine, is absolute nonsense. Ukraine was one the founding members of the Union and the USSR was the first formation that recognized Ukrainians as a nation and actively promoted their distinct national heritage, language, and culture.

The Bolsheviks did fight against a subset of Ukrainians, specifically the anarchists, because the anarchists literally organized an army and said “now that the Russian revolution is over they are weak and this is our time to strike”. So they were crushed. But not in any way, shape, or form because of a reasserting of Tsarist imperialism.

So yes, this article is complete Western consent-manufacturing trash and can be safely ignored as such.

I don’t think you understand just how ridiculous your sentence is.

Hong Kong IS China. It was carved away from China by the British and occupied for a long time. Reunification has always been the goal.

During the British occupation, they treated the Chinese like shit - right up until the point where Thatcher realized they would not be able to extend their occupation past 1999 no matter what they tried. So you know what the British did? They started a propaganda campaign to define Hong Kongers as a new identity and got a bunch of comprador Chinese people to take huge paychecks and powerful positions to lead independent movements that looked eerily similar to running a liberal democracy opposed to China.

That’s why when the protects happened the protestors were mostly young people who were being goaded on by local politicians. The grandparents in Hong Kong actually told their grandkids to stop protesting because they knew what the game was.

Hong Kong was finally returned to China and China did something that no other country has done in this situation, they created a policy framework of one country two systems. Hong Kong got to govern itself using systems that the British had put in place and this would allow life in Hong Kong to continue without major disruption while the process of reunification happened organically over time. The only place where that could not occur is national security. Hong Kong would not be expected to defend itself against enemies foreign and domestic, and it wouldn’t be expected to run its own counter intelligence programs. That means that the existing Chinese national security framework would replace the British national security framework in Hong Kong and would do so on a much faster timeline than any other governance.

This is ultimately what the protests were about - a Chinese national security law that the Chinese state used as part of counterintelligence specifically against the types of infiltration that the Brits and Americans are fond of. This had the result of making certain comprador politicians ineligible for public office and that sparked the protests.

Now that the compradors are out of office you know what’s happening in Hong Kong? Organic reintegration of Hong Kong into the primary governance framework of China. Why? Because the Brits aren’t there creating financial incentives for sedition and the Chinese system is incredibly effective at improving quality of life.

This idea that Hong Kong doesn’t have autonomy is silly. They absolutely have the legal right to continue the process of choosing how their system evolves. And it turns out that when you remove British influence, a community of mostly Han Chinese with friends, family, and colleagues all across China are going to slowly drift towards the governance model that is most effective at creating the best life for everyone. Whole process democracy ensures Hong Kong maintains a level of autonomy that benefits them, and one country two systems allows Hong Kong to decide how long it wants to hold on to the systems the British put in place.

Literally nothing about this process is negative except the things that are historically contiguous with the traumatic separation and dominance of Hong Kong by the Brits.

That’s not what propaganda is. Propaganda is much much bigger than that. First, if state media is propaganda then you have to discard BBC, NPR, and Al-Jazeera, among many others.

Second, if you only look at state media you miss the decades of infiltration and manipulation of Fox, NYT, AP, and many others by state actors.

Third, if you forget how class works, you miss the centuries of propaganda produced by private media companies with leadership that collaborates with the state to maintain and expand their power.

Example, when China banned opium, it was British merchants who owned newspapers that published inflammatory stories calling for the royal Navy to intervene, this starting the Opium Wars.

You HAVE to read everything because everything is propaganda and you ARE capable of learning from it without being swayed by it.

The true lesson is that protesting against the anti-imperialists to maintain an ideology imposed on you by your imperialist occupier is most effectively disarmed through dialogue, demonstrating patience and tolerance, and ultimately showing the people that national security against the imperialists is important enough to make changes to the law.

LOL. Peaceful. The protestors were throwing Molotovs at the police for weeks and the police showed more restraint that anything in the US, UK, or Canada.

Name Russia’s imperial holdings

Imagine a bat fight that you started, you are trying to avoid being hit so you are in a room in another part of the bar. Suddenly, a projectile flies through the walls of the bar and is stopped at the last minute before it hits your square in the head. What stopped it? The neighbor of the person you picked a fight with.

That’s what Iran did.

Oh yay! Alright then, India, you’re next.

Oh yay! Alright, you’re next Brazil!