My point isn’t who is right or wrong, my point is that this war was preventable. A different security arrangement, for example a neutral Ukraine could have prevented the country from being destroyed. This was not a fringe opinion, many international relations experts and politicians have stated this, yet somehow knowing all this the US pursued. It’s almost as if there is a group of Russia hawks within most administrations that actively seek to escalate conflicts with Russia.

And if you think the US supports Ukraine altruistically you’re delusional, especially after what they are doing in Gaza. (Or Iraq for that matter).

Merkel literally said that adding Ukraine to Nato would cause war, and here we are. Is Merkel a „Tankie“?

The US fucked us so bad. They started this entire shit show by persisting on expanding Nato after the Iraq war, even though Merkel and Sarkozy both said that it would lead to war. Putin stated publicly that Nato expansion would be interpreted as an existential threat, and still the US pushed. They spend billions on pro US propaganda via USAid and the NED (just look up Red lines not to cross Zelenskiy, which is basically an open thread from the US to Ukraine not to sign a peace deal or there would be „civil unrest“).

And even during the peace talks in Istanbul, they convinced (or coerced) Ukraine not to sign it „hey we’ll have your back you can win this war, trust us, we have never cynically abandoned proxies before“. And now they let the Europeans pay for it and the Ukrainians die for it.

Yes, Russias attack on Ukraine was illegal, but the war was also preventable. And I have a hard time to believe that the Finlandization of Ukraine would have been worse than the complete destruction of it. Especially for all the man that have been killed or maimed for a preventable and doomed war from the beginning.

Maybe I‘m being too suspicious here, and should take off my tinfoil hat, but this plastic panic feels a bit like the next distraction by oil companies to stop any movement on the energy transition. Especially these types of articles where it’s said that both are equally bad, or plastic pollution is the next climate crisis.

The climate crisis will render most of the earth uninhabitable within a 100 years if businesses as usual continues. But the plastic pollution crisis is thus far mostly hypothetical, yes it’s everywhere, yes it’s probably not the healthiest substance to have in your body, but most articles fail to mention any proven effects even remotely close to the health effects of, for example, smoking.

Again maybe I‘m completely wrong here, or it’s the classic stupidity of journalists misinterpreting and exaggerating earnest science.

If you think this is cowardice then you must not yet have developed object permanence.

This is the main role of the democratic party, keep the left down and keep the capitalist happy. They will cynically adopt any issue - that doesn’t threaten that prime directive - for a few months, be it black lives matter or trans rights, and then drop them again once it’s no longer convenient.

But if any real leftist candidate (with huge democratic support and winning based on broadly popular policies), ever comes close to power, all defense mechanisms kick in.

Maybe it’s time to restart some some old Greek traditions and propose a law that anyone proposing chat control - from here on out - gets banished for life from entering European soil ever again.

Ironically the sign indicates that ONLY busses are welcome in that street. A BBBB+ street (+ stands for bus)

I thought you were done.

It is, please reread the thread if you’re not convinced.

The edits are small wording changes made within minutes of posting them (before you responded to them).

Great job not sounding like a sore loser. 👌

Edit: the original posts with my point aren’t even edited.

Good point pal.

That is the detail that you got stuck on. The question was: is the US culpable in the Palestinian genocide, or is Israel just a third country?

Watch the news and it should be obvious what the answer is.

Would the Palestinian genocide be happening without US support?

What little green men do you think man the aircraft carriers, shoot down the missiles, or build the pier that was then used to kill civilians?

The US army is actively involved on every front of this war/genocide. Not to speak of the intelligence that they are probably providing.

And yes if you micro optimize the goal posts long enough there is bound to be a difference between Russian involvement in Ukraine before 2022 and Israel. But that is besides the point, the question is: would the Palestinian genocide be happening without direct US support? And the answer is irrefutably no.

Saying Israel is not the US is like saying the Ukrainian separatists between 2014 and 2022 where not Russia. Israel gets its weapons, money and international support directly from the US. Without the US Israel would not exist in its current state, and definitely would not be doing what it’s doing right now in Gaza. The US fought the Houthis to defend Israel, and without the US many many more Iranian rockets would have hit. And even if all of this was not the case and Israel was just a normal ally, the difference in response to Russias invasion of Ukraine vs Israels genocide against Palestinians still proves the point.

I would prefer to be under US hegemony than under Russian or Chinese hegemony (for the time being) but mostly because the US is richer.

But morally speaking the only difference is scale:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231108-gaza-deaths-compared-to-ukraine/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

I‘m sorry but saying that the US cares about human rights is simply not credible. They literally have a bomb-The-Hague act in case one of their many war criminals ever faces justice.

Or explain to me why the US are allies with Saudi Arabia, but Iran is their biggest enemy. In what world is Saudi Arabia a country that cares about human rights, democracy or equality.

All actions by the US show that they only care about power and that human rights and democracy are pure rhetoric to be used when convenient.

To what extent is this different than what the US currently does?

This just reads like a guy that was frustrated by the fall of the Soviet Union and Americas following hegemony, and said: what if we did all that.

Especially the tactic of destabilizing rivals. For example: how sincere can Americas concern for a Muslim minority in China be, when they have directly caused the death of millions in all their illegal Middle-East adventures of the past decades.