@FtwSte @TuckerCarlson It's alright. It's not news to me.

@PeterMenke7 @TuckerCarlson

American interests are another matter. It is understandable that America wouldn't want any such entanglements at a time like this. Europe desperately needs to get back on its own feet. The nicest thing America could do right now is to help kick out the current European ruling class.

Interesting. I have heard that since 2014, but I don't recall hearing about it before then. If so, that's insane for Europe because decentralizing Russia doesn't make the threat go away. It actually makes it much more difficult to predict and manage. Even before there was a Russia there was a threat from that region.

@FtwSte @TuckerCarlson Sure but a lot of demoralization propaganda involves relativizing things so much that people fail to even take their own side. I don't want to be like those people. Europeans have valid interests too.

@namor987 @FtwSte @TuckerCarlson Yes, but Zelensky did say they would after Biden got into office, and Biden being Biden, likely didn't say or do anything that would assuage that concern. There were still good reasons to doubt it, but it may not have been reasons the regime in Russia could understand.

@FtwSte @namor987 @TuckerCarlson I can certainly agree that Zelensky didn't handle the matter well. Putin's track record is also awful. There has to be a third option for governance beyond "muh democracy" and the system Russia and Belarus have.

The Chekists' POV is they have continued to lose influence in Europe since December 1991, including in Ukraine, and controlling Ukraine is particularly important to them for resources, people, access to trade routes, and military advantage over Europe. The things they have done to preserve and gain power have not had the effects they intended. Going to war always made it worse, but they don't have any other levers of control; natural resources alone didn't work, and cultural soft power would require reforms they're not willing to make. Now they're in a quagmire but they have to save face and control Ukraine, directly or indirectly or some combination thereof, in order to preserve their regime, which they earnestly believe Russia will perish without. I could also give you the Ukrainian POV if you like. My own POV is different.

When Russia first attacked in 2014, Ukraine basically had no military at all. On paper they did, but it was basically just one giant looting operation, worse than the Russian army, because the assumption was that there was no need to prepare for a war because Russia would always defend them.

@namor987 @klimakirken @TuckerCarlson Bingo.

@AnnaFromUA_YT They never really reformed after the Soviet times, so the fundamental problems are the same ones they had back then.

@thevivafrei It sounds like you are *in favor* of banning porn on X, as usually when people say that, what they mean is unsolicited images.

@Harry1T6 @michaeljknowles If they said that then they are very wrong. It's just ethnic cleansing.

@sirtemplemount @michaeljknowles I agree, if these European governments had any integrity they would wage war against Israel.

@michaeljknowles The game is if you don't care then Israel gets rid of them. But if you DO care, then Israel gets rid of them.

@TheClassicalCon @michaeljknowles There simply is no hypocrisy. Recognizing a Palestinian state means it's over there, not in your own country, and voicing a humanitarian concern does not mean those affected have to come halfway across the world to live in your country. That's retarded.

I do not believe myself to be a cruel person, and I have no position on what this broad's personal religious feelings are. But I do not think public displays of concern for these people are good for society.

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@Black_Pilled *That* was the most vile hatred possible? Hold my beer.