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  • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mltoEurope@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 days ago

    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.



  • 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.










  • 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?





  • 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.



  • Not all NED funded protests of this sort aim at regime change. Some merely serve the purpose of applying pressure on a comprador regime that may be getting too comfortable and independent minded, to ensure they remain loyal, make them feel insecure in their position and understand that, should they step out of line, the US can immediately activate its regime change apparatus and do to them what was just done to Nepal. Is that what is happening in the Philippines? I don’t know. I don’t think we have enough evidence at the moment to draw a definitive conclusion. Time will tell.