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Middleeasteye definitely has bias on this issue.

They are also big supporters of russian genocidal imperialism.

What a childish worldview.

You’ll know, believe me.

I live in Ukraine, so I know what a war starting is like (and living through it).

Blaming everything on the CIA effectively white washes the Iranian regime.

WW3 is not starting, it’s not even close.

Don’t be so dramatic.

The whole “global south” framing is suspect. It includes a large list of countries differentiated by level of democracy, economic development levels and geography/culture.

Even two countries seemingly from the same region and with somewhat similar levels of development; India and Nepal have a very different foreign policy and global economic outlook.

In general, there is a tendency to put the global south on the pedestal so to speak. This is incorrect both from a functional perspective (dumping a group countries together by an arbitrary measure) and that the leadership of said countries have different priorities. It’s not uncommon to see hypocritical approaches on things like imperialism and many of the said countries don’t support the current Cuban regime (a corrupt authoritarian dominated by oligarchy consistent of state insiders).

Haha, that’s funny. I didn’t even recognize it was him in the photo. I didn’t realize he was 62.

While this is true, European political systems are generally more competitive and flexible (i.e. not a two party state).

US is a two party state where both parties are very corrupt, but worst thing is that the base of the centre-right opposition is largely tolerant of corruption.

I’ve been constantly looking at long term weather daily forecasts for the past few weeks.

About two weeks ago, it was showing an increase in temperatures starting from earlier this week and extending into Feb.

The latest forecasts show temperatures going down to -25 (at night in the coming days). The russians will definitely strike around that time.

And fuck american “communist” online roleplayers. Let’s hope one day they end up in russia (with their citizenship cancelled).

I live on a high floor and it’s a fucking pain to deal with the cold and lack of water. Than being said, I can manage. I do feel for ladies like Janchuk. My grandma is 80+, but we can support her.

Individuals like Merkel with their arrogance and de facto support for russian genocidal imperialism are massive enablers of the russians (Schröder is a piece of shit too, but unlike Merkel I don’t think he actually believes in anything, if the bribe is large enough he will pitch anything). I hope both of them get a severe case of Alzheimer’s.

Totally!

The individual who responded to me doesn’t believe that Ukraine should not have self-determination and it should under russian domination.

I just made that up, right?

Ah, you’re a tankie who supports russian genocidal imperialism.

No, wonder you’re being so holier than thou.

Bye!

How do you think I got the $2800 B figure?

The whole framing is dumb.

I have no clue around the exact sum provided to the USSR (although I have read about the nature of the support and what it focused on). I am just pointing you can’t compare dollars in a nominal manner.

Your whole framing is suspect, not to mention you’re talking finances and you can’t even figure out that $150 B (EDIT: as written in the post, when I posted this I didn’t check that the nominal figure really was) in 1944 dollars is closer to $2,800 B in 2025 dollars.

$11.3 B in 1944 dollars is equal to $207 B in 2025 dollars.

There are obvious practical considerations for such an approach (security, trade), but I doubt it will possible. The US is not reliable and is ruled by criminal plutocrats.

I was also surprised about it when reading the headline about 5 years.

That’s just one charge, there are others that are being prosecuted (with lengthier sentences).

Of course, not a disorderly one, a multi-staged, organization expulsion of US services.

Forget taxing them, the ones who committed crimes against humanity (Zuckerberg with enabling the Rohingya genocide, Musk for the disastrous disorderly shut down of USAID).

And get rid of all American oligarch gang activity; Apple, Google, Meta, all of them.