Russia: “European troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets”

Translation: If anti-Russia states put “peacekeepers” in Ukraine, Russia will use them for target practice.

The questions are also purposely formulated in such a way as to basically amount to just asking: “do you want good, nice things?”.

They are far too general and don’t even define what “individual rights and freedoms” even mean. Rights and freedoms to do what, exactly? What makes these rights “individual” as opposed to, what, collective rights, presumably? And who is to say that the respondents don’t already assume that they have those things?

Let’s say for instance for the first question they instead asked something like: “Would you prefer to have the US political system instead of your current one?”. Does anyone really believe that the result would reflect the same high approval score? I say no way. Everyone can see how dysfunctional the US is.

How about instead of the second question you reformulate it to ask: “Do you want to give rich people the freedom to buy politicians and the right to exert disproportionate influence on elections?” That’s an “individual freedom”, right? Or how about “Should everyone be free to carry a gun?”

Or for the third question, you can instead ask: “Should leaders be selected based solely on popularity and media coverage instead of proven skill in leadership and governance?” or maybe: “Should someone with no qualifications have as much say on policy in a specific field as a trained and educated expert?”

This is the problem with all polling of this sort. It all depends on how you formulate the questions. You can make something sound good by using words with generally positive associations, or you can take advantage of the fact that people don’t understand the hidden implications of what is being asked.

Lol. Eurocucks are getting more delusional by the day. We saw exactly how much leverage Europe has over the US in the tariff “negotiations”: zero. The US dictated terms and the EU accepted them.

Europe has long since destroyed any potential it had for sovereignty and put itself in a position of slavish subservience and total dependence on the US.

No matter how much the dogs bark now, they will still heel when the master commands it.

Therefore, the fundamental task for the socialist stage is to develop the productive forces. The superiority of the socialist system is demonstrated, in the final analysis, by faster and greater development of those forces than under the capitalist system. As they develop, the people’s material and cultural life will constantly improve.

And might those ethnic Russians have been there due to a sustained campaign on the part of the Soviets to depopulate the region of ethnic Ukrainians and replace them with ethnic Russians as part of a plan to increase loyalty of the region to the central Soviet authority?

Literally the exact opposite happened. The Soviets did a Ukrainization campaign to support and popularize Ukrainian language, literature and culture in regions where it had previously been marginal at best. Ukrainians were disproportionately represented in the leadership positions of the Soviet state. The Soviet Union was extremely pro-Ukrainian.

> “I’m not racist”

> Proceeds to be racist towards Russians, Chinese, Indians and Pakistanis

Russia was invading militarily Crimea well before 2014

Lol, do you mean the lease agreement in which Ukraine was getting a ton of money for the Russian naval base in Crimea? Is that your definition of “invading”?

Ah yes the dehumanizing Russian rhetoric towards the Ukrainians of… *checks notes* calling them a brotherly people. Smh…how awful of them.

Whether or not it is safe depends on how stringent the safety measures are. Even physical links can fail in extreme circumstances, or with poor maintenance or improper handling.

Let’s wait and see what the testing shows. Let them have a trial run of the technology and count how many accidents happen. For now we can’t make conclusions if we don’t have any data, right?

RT is right. EU bureaucrats are Nazi losers and Musk is a Nazi loser. They both deserve each other.

non-authoritarian communist and socialist systems can and do exist. They are distinct from authoritarian communist system

You’re also trying to pidgeonhole things into a dichotomy

There is no bigger false dichotomy than “authoritarian” vs “non-authoritarian”

I live in Germany. Merz is absolutely a Nazi. Just because Russians are saying something does not automatically make it not true.

I think they realize it’s quite unlikely to “make it” as a musician.

A lot more children from developing countries tend to want to be teachers because education is not taken for granted there (even when it has been universally available for a couple generations like it is now in China, the times in which it was not are still in living memory…go back to the 1960s and 70s and you still had many people in especially rural China who had very low levels of education). Education is seen there as a noble profession helping people on the path to a better life, and they look at teachers not too differently from how they look at doctors.

By contrast, developed countries tend to take education for granted, and young people see that education is not really that necessary to become rich, powerful and famous, and the most glamorized people in the society tend to be either some kind of entertainer, sports or pop star, or rich entrepreneurs.

You need manufacturing capacity to enable a green transition. Solar panels and wind turbines have to be made somewhere. Without cheap energy there is no manufacturing and no green transition. The only other option would have been buying Chinese solar panels, but Europe also chooses to antagonize China and place import restrictions and tariffs on its products at the same time they cut themselves off from Russian energy. Therefore Europe’s “green transition” is a wishful thinking, it simply won’t materialize. Europe is just becoming more dependent on expensive US fossil fuels.

How convenient to fall back on arguments about self-determination only after the island spent decades under a repressive military dictatorship, and then decades under a US controlled “liberal democracy” with US controlled media and an education system that brainwashed and indoctrinated entire generations of people to see themselves as different from the mainland. Why was the issue never put to a referendum? Why are sympathies with the mainland still harshly repressed and any talk of reunification suppressed?

Neither the EU nor the US are the world’s police. They have absolutely no right to unilaterally declare themselves the world’s policeman. Only the UN has the right to impose sanctions.

I mean, that’s like…whatever. It’s irrelevant, it’s ancient history. Hong Kong has moved on and China has moved on. I wouldn’t waste any effort debating that point with libs. Let them make whatever comparisons they want. What’s important is that there is organized resistance.

Has the western MLs been fully infiltrated by chinese/russian bots

Is this a joke?

WTF do I do here.

The only thing you can do. You continue to educate, agitate and do your best to try and organize. Organization is the most powerful tool that the proletariat has at its disposal in the class war. Political natural selection will take care of the anarchists and their obstinate refusal to organize. Effective strategies that can demonstrate success will win the support of the masses while those tactics which go nowhere will fail to win support and will remain irrelevant.