To be clear: you're celebrating Islamic aggression on and genocide against Armenia, right?
But then again, you were told to believe that. The EU's Witch-in-Chief Von der Leyen had a photo-op with Aliyev just a few weeks ago, announcing that it would be funding the genocidal Azeri war machine.
Hypocrisy is the state religion in the West. This is why Western hegemony needs to be smashed by any means necessary.
(And they're hardly Islamic, not even when compare to Armenia's Iranian allies.)
I like this rhetorical trick. This is the argument I'm going to use next time you use a slur for Russia, or one of the other countries that you don't like.
Russia is hardly corrupt, compared to your Ukrainian ally.
It's hardly aggressive, compared to your American allies.
Iran is hardly Islamic, compared to your Saudi allies.
In absolute terms, perhaps, but there's also much more to be corrupt about (natural resources).
Americans didn't invade a neighbour in 100 years now
"Americans so thoroughly dominate their neighbors that they don't even have to invade them" isn't the slam you think it is. Also, Monroe Doctrine.
Think of the Ukraine War as the Mexican-American War. After the Ukrainian Cession and it becoming a nice obedient puppet country to Russia, it... won't have to invade anymore. Apparently, you think that is a great success.
Poland has "Saudi allies"?
Saudi are American allies, and have been for a very long time, and you regard those Muricans as your friends, even as they export BLM to your country.
Also Russia is way closer to the Saudi Arabia now than America under Biden.
And good for them. Even evil regimes can do good things.
And as you should know, the Monroe Doctrine is completely dead. Not only Moscow arms countries like Venezuela or Nicaragua, which is nothing new, now also openly has troops in them. And a former guerrilla even just became the president of Colombia.
He was correct about Assange (but obviously only 'correct' in the sense that Western countries that commit way worse atrocities are 'correct' about Mariupol).
I'm glad you at least haven't lost all your marbles over that corrupt puppet non-country. Azerbaijan should be nuked, then occupied. Low-yield tactical nuclear weapon should do the trick.
Meanwhile the despair and hysteria on Wagner Telegram channels and Russian TV substains me.
Speaking of Russian media, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova had just accessed America of having "committed genocide" against Russian media and journalists.
But you know, you're the most amazing guy. The Russiana have been cleared from the entire Kharkiv Oblast, they don't even try to hide it, but you still can't believe.
But maybe you should finally explain to me what did you mean by "creeping defense in depth" that you invented.
Considering it's an undisputed fact that the Ukrainian fixed-wing airforce is still flying even today, I don't know why Putin bootlickers are still going on about the Ghost of Kiev. At that time it was disputed due to the claim that Russia had disabled/destroyed Ukraine's airforce, which we now know they didn't do.
The myth of the Ghost of Kiev is probably an exaggeration, but in hindsight the idea that a pilot was flying in Kiev at the time and shooting down Russian aircraft is not only plausible but very likely.
It is truly shitty how Armenia is getting totally fucked by the nasty, vengeful bully of Azerbaijan. This is a muslim country bullying a smaller, weaker Christian country thanks to oil money, primarily using high tech jew weapons imported from Israel. The United States has a law banning foreign aid to Azerbaijan, which Biden waived repeatedly even AFTER its recent war of aggression against Armenia.
Armenia beat Azerbaijan in a war like 30 years ago, and the Azeris have been building up for revenge for these 30 years, and now that Russia cucked itself and revealed that it is totally powerless to help Armenia, the Azeris obviously initiated plans some months ago once Russian weakness was apparent, to take advantage of the situation and invade again. And apparently they're successful because Armenia never got its shit together.
Israel supports Azerbaijan because Armenia is allied with Iran, which is an enemy of Azerbaijan because the latter has irredentist claims on Iranian Azerbaijan.
I looked this up. They aren't really "allied", they just are friendly because Azerbaijan and Iran, despite being the 2 major Shia Muslim nations, picked opposite sides in the West/Russia dispute. Azerbaijan picked Turkey and Israel as it's major allies, which are both on the "Western" side. Meanwhile Armenia and Iran are both pro-Russia and to some extent anti-West. I don't think Armenia is inherently anti-West like Iran, it just needed to pick Russia out of necessity since the West wasn't going to give it any protection, but the Armenians thought (wrongly, now) that Russia would help them and deter Azerbaijan.
Also: "In 2018, Azerbaijan suspended oil and gas trade with Iran in support to the United States' reintroduced sanctions on Iran, which prompted hostility on the part of Iran's government towards Azerbaijan."
This really doesn't sound like an "alliance" to me: "During the July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes, Azerbaijan and Armenia were called on by Iran to show restraint.[99] When hostility resumed between Azerbaijan and Armenia in September war, Azerbaijani media outlets accused Iran of tacit support for Armenia, while Iran denied these accusations and stated its act to make peace in Karabakh.[100][101][102] Iran also reaffirmed its support for the "territorial integrity" of Azerbaijan."
If Armenia and Iran were allies, Iran would be sending Armenia some military aid if not outright sending troops and/or invading Azerbaijan.
As far as I can tell, Israel supports Azerbaijan because $$$ and the Israeli defense industry has always been aggressive about selling shit to countries that are ethically questionable.
Azeri forces have hit Russian bases and vehicles in Armenia (including the FSB "humanitarian mission in the combat zone") to no Russian response of any kind, other than fleeing.
You're as consistent in opposing aggression as are the corrupt Western leaders who now fund the Azeri war machine, and are directly responsible for aggression and genocide against Armenia.
How embarrassing. Fortunately, they didn't praise Aliyev into the skies, nor did they have a photo-op with him - like the EU's war criminal in chief did.
to no Russian response of any kind, other than fleeing
Russian generosity has limits. They are already resupplying Ukraine at breakneck speed - how many countries' militaries do people expect them to hand out free equipment to?
Don't you worry, they'll never come close to equaling the $21 billion that the Americans left for the Taliban after they got their asses kicked by goatherds, after spending $2 trillion, and having their soldiers blown up by "sworn enemies of the Taliban" whom the Taliban had broken out of prison.
$21 billion that the Americans left for the Taliban
I doubt it was that much, or anywhere near. Most of the value would have been in the relatively small number of aircraft, the vast majority of which fled to neighboring countries like Uzbekistan. And also, what equipment was left was given to the Afghan Army, which chose not to fight because they simply didn't believe in the cause they were asked to fight for (equal rights for women).
Okay so I looked it up: the TOTAL spent on equipment (and transport) for Afghanistan since 2001 = $18 billion. However, this does not mean there was $18 billion of shit lying around in 2021 for the Taliban to take. First, we'd have to eliminate what was spent on transportation, which isn't broken out. Second, obviously a large portion of the remainder would have broken down or worn out or gotten lost over the course of 20 years, and a significant amount would have been spent on maintenance and repairs. The US counted 73 aircraft left behind that were totally gutted and inoperable before the US left. What was operable almost all took off and flew to neighboring countries. The only evidence I've seen of anything flying that got left behind was a few helicopters.
So this is where you are just lying. Americans never "got their asses kicked" by the Taliban, and of course the Taliban were not "goatherds" regardless, just like the NVA were not "rice farmers". The United States clearly and decisively won all combat as a rule in Afghanistan.
You can say the US lost the war because of a failure of political will, but you cannot say we got our "asses kicked". That's just factually untrue. So the question is, why do you feel the need to lie? The answer is: to salt the wound. And the question is why do you need to salt the wound? The answer is: because you have a serious problem with butthurt over the United States that clouds your ability to use logic and reason. It's like TDS but over America.
It's what the so called "fact-checkers" claimed when people said the number was $80 billion - which they claimed included the training.
Most of the value would have been in the relatively small number of aircraft
Which I hope was sold to the Chinese for inspection and reverse engineering.
Americans never "got their asses kicked" by the Taliban, and of course the Taliban were not "goatherds" regardless, just like the NVA were not "rice farmers".
The NLF were.
The United States clearly and decisively won all combat as a rule in Afghanistan.
And Pyrrhus of Epirus also decisively won all combat in the first two years. He still had to stage a humiliating withdrawal, like another country.
You can say the US lost the war because of a failure of political will
We didn't get our asses kicked because "political will" is quite a claim. That's what the French claimed after World War II. Of course, there was no way they could have won after their main armies had been surrounded due to disastrous military decisionmaking.
The answer is: because you have a serious problem with butthurt over the United States that clouds your ability to use logic and reason. It's like TDS but over America.
I hate the corrupt criminals who rule over me far more than I hate the United States. But to answer your question: because the said corrupt criminals are your puppets. And because you have no principles (and neither do your puppets). You care about Russia invading a corrupt puppet country because Russia is your enemy and that country is your puppet. When Azerbaijan invades Armenia, you don't give a damn, in fact, your puppets are funding the Azeri war machine. And yet you're not even honest about it, that this is 100% and solely about your own interests, not about the "rules-based international order" which is Western hegemony that should be smashed.
See, the problem is that I have to say 'you' here, while I do believe that you are well-intentioned. Your criminal government, on the other hand... (I'm shocked that a government which shoots 14-year-old boys who are its own citizens at Ruby Ridge has no problem exterminating 14-year-old boys in other countries en masse.)
That's what the French claimed after World War II.
The French were defeated on the battlefield. The US was not.
And Pyrrhus of Epirus also decisively won all combat in the first two years.
No, he by definition did NOT win DECISIVELY, hence the term "Pyrrhic Victory", which means when you technically win, but you take such high casualties that you are effectively defeated regardless since you are forced to retreat. Again, this didn't happen with the US. The US basically suffered 0 combat casualties for years and years leading up to the withdrawal since we only had a small footprint left in support positions and that was enough to keep the Taliban down UNTIL Biden decided to pull all support, which caused the Afghans to collapse and give up. The Afghans were still fighting and capable of winning in 2020, but then collapsed in 2021 very quickly after Biden totally abandoned them. And the Biden admin KNEW this is why it was going to shit and didn't reverse course because the Democrats wanted out, even if it was going to be ugly.
The NLF were.
Most Viet Cong were a combat force, not rice farmers, and they got utterly destroyed when they tried to launch a major offensive, the Tet Offensive. SOME civilians affiliated with the VC were "rice farmers", but they didn't engage in combat, they did shit like planting mines and traps.
But to answer your question: because the said corrupt criminals are your puppets.
You give the US too much credit. Our leaders are too incompetent to puppet anyone.
And because you have no principles
I have principles. The Democrats don't, they just want power, globohomo, and to impose their weird, destructive socialist ideology. You need to understand that the Democrats are only about half the US, and the other half, myself included, have plenty of principles and oppose them. That said, you could see from the Trump presidency that Trump could not go up against the deep state by himself and win. This is going to be a generational struggle and my hope is that DeSantis or someone similar can finally start to roll back the Left's control of government.
You care about Russia invading a corrupt puppet country because Russia is your enemy and that country is your puppet.
I didn't want Russia to be my enemy. There were many times since the 1990s where I and other conservatives thought "Hey Russia, the Cold War is over, let's join forces and both kill some fucking terrorists, okay?" but sadly, Putin didn't want to make nice with us and wanted to keep the Cold War going in his own way. The Democrats even embarrassingly did the Reset button but again, Russia wasn't interested. Okay, then. If Putin wanted to keep us as an enemy, I guess he can get his wish.
I oppose Russian (or Chinese or anyone else) empire-building because it constitutes a threat to the world economic and trade order that underlies western prosperity and GDP growth. I wouldn't mind at all if 3rd world countries were colonies of European countries and exploited for resources like the old days. If anything, that would just benefit the whole world. But Russia and China want to OVERTHROW and REPLACE the western-led economic order, and that fucks with my money, so fuck them, they can get fucked wrecked in a war and kept in their place.
Ukraine might be corrupt by EU standards, but not as corrupt as Russia.
Ukraine has never been a US puppet. Instead, it was simply a democratic country that wanted to turn away from Russia and towards the EU. It will likely fully join the EU after this war is over.
When Azerbaijan invades Armenia, you don't give a damn
I do, actually. I have stated my support for Armenia and opposition to Azerbaijan many times. I support Armenia because it's a Christian nation invaded by a Muslim one, and because Azerbaijan is the aggressor and I view them as Palestinian-like genocidal assholes. I also supported Serbia in the 90s for similar reasons, and opposed the EU/NATO bullying of Serbia.
And yet you're not even honest about it, that this is 100% and solely about your own interests, not about the "rules-based international order" which is Western hegemony that should be smashed.
You keep saying "you" attached to comments that clearly do not apply to me. I agree that the liberals should be smashed. If we had an "international order" run by people like Trump, DeSantis, and other right wing leaders, the world would be a much better place that wasn't obsessed with trannies, faggots, and other mentally ill people. We would actually allow countries to maintain common sense immigration laws to preserve their national identity and culture like Japan does, instead of getting fucked like Sweden.
See, the problem is that I have to say 'you' here, while I do believe that you are well-intentioned.
Thank you, but you don't have to say "you", you can say "the Biden admin". And look, I admit that even if Republicans win in 2024, the 95% of Democrats control of career government jobs isn't going to disappear. This is a MAJOR generational problem that will take decades to root out and reform. The deep state of unelected bureaucrats totally undermined Trump and make it much more difficult for him to get things done.
Your criminal government, on the other hand...
We have a problem right now where the only way we are going to reform our government is to keep winning elections so that we can keep up the pressure so the Democrats can't just play for time for 4 years and then take back power like what happened with Trump. We need to hold the Presidency for 8-20 years to really make a generational, deep cultural change in government.
And you should also be honest that the US is never going to lose a war, so change from the outside simply isn't going to happen. China has no shot. Not only is China a lot weaker than it looks on paper, but when it finally starts a war, it won't ONLY be fighting the US, it will be fighting everyone else nearby, like Australia, Japan, and others, possibly India. China is basically the last major threat to the global world order, and it doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of overthrowing it. It's just a question of how messy it is going to be for the CCP to finally fall, and how many people have to die. My preference is for fewer people to die, and that requires a decisive victory.
There is a significant chance that if nothing changes fundamentally with the Democrats, that the US will continue to divide on Red/Blue lines until we have another "civil war" which likely won't be a bloody conflict but will instead be more of a national divorce with both sides refusing to continue with the "winner take all" federal government. If anything it might be the Blue states that try to secede if Republicans keep winning the White House, and I can tell you that I would WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT select deep blue states leaving the US so that conservatives could control the rest.
The French were defeated on the battlefield. The US was not.
No 'defeat' is final. It's only final when you decide that you don't want to hold it out anymore.
No, he by definition did NOT win DECISIVELY, hence the term "Pyrrhic Victory", which means when you technically win, but you take such high casualties that you are effectively defeated regardless since you are forced to retreat. Again, this didn't happen with the US.
The cause of the Pyrrhic victory can be anything. Clearly, the costs were too high for the US to sustain them. Ergo, the US was defeated.
You give the US too much credit. Our leaders are too incompetent to puppet anyone.
And our leaders are so incompetent that they do not need anyone competent to puppet them.
You need to understand that the Democrats are only about half the US, and the other half, myself included, have plenty of principles and oppose them.
Yes, and I think even a lot of rank-and-file Democrats do have principles, they're just very deluded. Also, a lot of GOP politicians don't. That is the problem. But that is why the sophisticated propaganda apparatus exists to make sure that the people are persuaded of what the politicians want them to believe. And that is why pure power plays like this "Ukraine" crap is always cloaked in something that the average American will find acceptable.
That said, you could see from the Trump presidency that Trump could not go up against the deep state by himself and win. This is going to be a generational struggle and my hope is that DeSantis or someone similar can finally start to roll back the Left's control of government.
As you say, the regime is the problem, not the figureheads at the top.
I didn't want Russia to be my enemy. There were many times since the 1990s where I and other conservatives thought "Hey Russia, the Cold War is over, let's join forces and both kill some fucking terrorists, okay?" but sadly, Putin didn't want to make nice with us and wanted to keep the Cold War going in his own way.
Are you completely mad? You think that it's Russia that wasn't playing nice? Not the people who betrayed Russia and kept expanding NATO as well as sponsoring coups and revolutions in countries allied to Russia, despite knowing full well that Russia was not happy with this, and wouldn't accept it?
I wouldn't mind at all if 3rd world countries were colonies of European countries and exploited for resources like the old days. If anything, that would just benefit the whole world.
They benefited at the time. They would not benefit now, as the European countries would just push homosexuality, racial divison and feminist claptrap down their throats.
Ukraine has never been a US puppet. Instead, it was simply a democratic country that wanted to turn away from Russia and towards the EU. It will likely fully join the EU after this war is over.
There is nothing 'democratic' about Ukraine, or other countries in the EU. They sure as hell aren't doing anything that is to the benefit of the people.
I do, actually. I have stated my support for Armenia and opposition to Azerbaijan many times. I support Armenia because it's a Christian nation invaded by a Muslim one, and because Azerbaijan is the aggressor and I view them as Palestinian-like genocidal assholes. I also supported Serbia in the 90s for similar reasons, and opposed the EU/NATO bullying of Serbia.
Very good. Unfortunately, too often American power gets put to use to help genocidal assholes, which is why I'm hoping that countries like Russia and China will destroy American power.
If we had an "international order" run by people like Trump, DeSantis, and other right wing leaders, the world would be a much better place that wasn't obsessed with trannies, faggots, and other mentally ill people. We would actually allow countries to maintain common sense immigration laws to preserve their national identity and culture like Japan does, instead of getting fucked like Sweden.
The problem is that eventually, "libs" are going to come to power again, assuming for a moment that they will ever be dislodgded to begin with. The result of that is that any increase in American power will just give those libs more power with which to push globohomo. So DeSantis makes America stronger, and after him President AOC or whatever will just use it to wreck even more places.
Thank you, but you don't have to say "you", you can say "the Biden admin".
It's not Biden or any "administration". Else the problem would be solved with a change of person at the top. It is the regime.
I admit that even if Republicans win in 2024, the 95% of Democrats control of career government jobs isn't going to disappear. This is a MAJOR generational problem that will take decades to root out and reform. The deep state of unelected bureaucrats totally undermined Trump and make it much more difficult for him to get things done.
Good luck with that, I'm definitely rooting for you. But I don't think that you will succeed, because you are no more democratic than we are.
We have a problem right now where the only way we are going to reform our government is to keep winning elections so that we can keep up the pressure so the Democrats can't just play for time for 4 years and then take back power like what happened with Trump. We need to hold the Presidency for 8-20 years to really make a generational, deep cultural change in government.
I don't think that is going to happen. And that is why so called 'elections' are so useful to the elites. Even if by some off chance someone who is not to their liking gets into office, he'll soon be replaced and everything he did is overturned.
I am happy with some of the stuff on the state level though, but judges generally ruin those too.
And you should also be honest that the US is never going to lose a war, so change from the outside simply isn't going to happen. China has no shot. Not only is China a lot weaker than it looks on paper, but when it finally starts a war, it won't ONLY be fighting the US, it will be fighting everyone else nearby, like Australia, Japan, and others, possibly India.
India isn't going to war with a nuclear power over Taiwan. Same as Australia and Japan. But it will depend on judgments of Chinese strength or weakness. If China repeats the Russia stuff with India, in that it settled its border disputes and made a solid ally out of it, there can be a broader alliance to smash American hegemony.
China is basically the last major threat to the global world order, and it doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of overthrowing it.
You speak of the 'global world order' as if it's a good thing. It means that America can murder hundreds of thousands, if not millions, while hypocritically crying about the actions of others.
There is a significant chance that if nothing changes fundamentally with the Democrats, that the US will continue to divide on Red/Blue lines until we have another "civil war" which likely won't be a bloody conflict but will instead be more of a national divorce with both sides refusing to continue with the "winner take all" federal government. If anything it might be the Blue states that try to secede if Republicans keep winning the White House, and I can tell you that I would WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT select deep blue states leaving the US so that conservatives could control the rest.
Ironically, internal conflict is what did Rome in, at least the Roman Republic.
The problem is that even conservative states are like 60-40. And liberal states 40-60. It does not eliminate the enemy within. It will only encourage conservatives to overreach, which will then lead to a realignment that still have liberals being competitive. There are no permanent victories.
Also, a lot of GOP politicians don't. That is the problem.
As a general rule most politicians are going to be politicians because they're narcissists, not because they actually care about policy. Rand Paul is a good example of a politician who cares about policy. Ted Cruz is a good example of a guy who is split about 50/50 between policy and narcissism. Probably 80-90% are just in it for the clout.
Are you completely mad? You think that it's Russia that wasn't playing nice?
Yes.
Not the people who betrayed Russia and kept expanding NATO as well as sponsoring coups and revolutions in countries allied to Russia, despite knowing full well that Russia was not happy with this, and wouldn't accept it?
If Russia played nice eventually it would have been able to join NATO itself.
The West, myself included, reject this whole "sphere of influence" horse shit. Russia does not have ownership over countries like Georgia just because they're near Russia.
I reject that the West sponsored any coups or revolutions. People in places like Georgia and Ukraine came to want to join the West because the West is clearly superior. It turns out people like wealth and a high standard of living, who knew? The majority of people don't even mind trannies, faggots, and BLM if it means they get to consoom.
Very good. Unfortunately, too often American power gets put to use to help genocidal assholes, which is why I'm hoping that countries like Russia and China will destroy American power.
The Democrats love to act as the enforcers for the EU. Your hopes are in vain, though. Russia is already broken as a power and has been unmasked as a weakling. China - as a country with its military built entirely according to Russian tech and doctrine - is also by extension weaker than everyone thought 9 months ago. China will be able to cause messy wars in the future unless it is brought to heel economically, but those wars have a 0% chance of actually overthrowing the international order. Everyone will gang up on China.
So DeSantis makes America stronger, and after him President AOC or whatever will just use it to wreck even more places.
It's possible to crush the power of the wokes to the point where the Democrats shift to the Right enough that even when they regain power, they are forced to follow a more moderate path. We just have to keep showing the American people how crazy the wokes are until "woke" becomes radioactive.
But I don't think that you will succeed
Republicans have a better chance than China, that's for sure.
India isn't going to war with a nuclear power over Taiwan.
India will 100% go to war with China because it hates China and would love to have a chance to bully China and throw the Chinese out of the disputed border regions. when China has its hands full fighting on many other fronts. Also India isn't afraid of China's nukes. India has its own nukes.
Same as Australia and Japan.
Australia and Japan are 100% down to war with China. I don't know why you seem to think everyone is scared of nukes. They aren't. Nukes are a joke. As long as everyone has them, they cancel out. And Japan/AUS are under the US nuclear shield anyway.
If China repeats the Russia stuff with India, in that it settled its border disputes and made a solid ally out of it, there can be a broader alliance to smash American hegemony.
The CCP hates India and devotes a lot of resources to planning to attack and defeat it in a war. The CCP has 0 interest in "teaming up" with India. India and China are natural enemies, and their hostility is only going to get worse as a lot of supply chains begin to leave China for India in the next 5 years.
It will only encourage conservatives to overreach, which will then lead to a realignment that still have liberals being competitive. There are no permanent victories.
If you have a 60/40 advantage in the US, you basically get full Left or Right wing policies, no compromise. The only way for the minority party to compete is to only run as slightly more left/right of the dominant party, such that you end up with RINOs like Mitt Romney who are still quite liberal. I would be totally fine with DINOs who basically agreed with all conservative policy except they wanted a little more welfare.
The US defeated the Taliban over and over again, and could have occupied the country for decades, even centuries if it wanted to secure the necessary cultural change.
...But political pressures back home prevented that. Therefore, it's completely accurate to say that the US did not have the political will to win.
Compare it to the British blockade of the Atlantic to destroy the slave trade - that took over seventy years of constant military presence to achieve.
To be clear: you're celebrating Islamic aggression on and genocide against Armenia, right?
But then again, you were told to believe that. The EU's Witch-in-Chief Von der Leyen had a photo-op with Aliyev just a few weeks ago, announcing that it would be funding the genocidal Azeri war machine.
Hypocrisy is the state religion in the West. This is why Western hegemony needs to be smashed by any means necessary.
No, I don't.
(And they're hardly Islamic, not even when compare to Armenia's Iranian allies.)
Aliyev was recently celebrated by KIA2 winredditors as based. I wasn't among them.
I like this rhetorical trick. This is the argument I'm going to use next time you use a slur for Russia, or one of the other countries that you don't like.
Russia is hardly corrupt, compared to your Ukrainian ally.
It's hardly aggressive, compared to your American allies.
Iran is hardly Islamic, compared to your Saudi allies.
Russia is much more corrupt.
Americans didn't invade a neighbour in over 100 years now (Mexican civil war intervention due to Pancho Villa's raids on America).
Poland has "Saudi allies"? Also Russia is way closer to the Saudi Arabia now than America under Biden.
In absolute terms, perhaps, but there's also much more to be corrupt about (natural resources).
"Americans so thoroughly dominate their neighbors that they don't even have to invade them" isn't the slam you think it is. Also, Monroe Doctrine.
Think of the Ukraine War as the Mexican-American War. After the Ukrainian Cession and it becoming a nice obedient puppet country to Russia, it... won't have to invade anymore. Apparently, you think that is a great success.
Saudi are American allies, and have been for a very long time, and you regard those Muricans as your friends, even as they export BLM to your country.
And good for them. Even evil regimes can do good things.
And as you should know, the Monroe Doctrine is completely dead. Not only Moscow arms countries like Venezuela or Nicaragua, which is nothing new, now also openly has troops in them. And a former guerrilla even just became the president of Colombia.
It sure as hell wasn't dead during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
American either removed (to Russia) or destroyed the Ukrainian nuclear arsenal quarter century ago.
He was correct about Assange (but obviously only 'correct' in the sense that Western countries that commit way worse atrocities are 'correct' about Mariupol).
I'm glad you at least haven't lost all your marbles over that corrupt puppet non-country. Azerbaijan should be nuked, then occupied. Low-yield tactical nuclear weapon should do the trick.
I'm just here wondering if the supposed offensive from this past week is as fake as the ghost of kiev.
Meanwhile the despair and hysteria on Wagner Telegram channels and Russian TV substains me.
Speaking of Russian media, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova had just accessed America of having "committed genocide" against Russian media and journalists.
But you know, you're the most amazing guy. The Russiana have been cleared from the entire Kharkiv Oblast, they don't even try to hide it, but you still can't believe.
But maybe you should finally explain to me what did you mean by "creeping defense in depth" that you invented.
(https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/15IrBahnJA/x/c/4Ob8KF5UmSk which is still the only instance of the phrase "creeping defense in depth" on the entire internet).
Considering it's an undisputed fact that the Ukrainian fixed-wing airforce is still flying even today, I don't know why Putin bootlickers are still going on about the Ghost of Kiev. At that time it was disputed due to the claim that Russia had disabled/destroyed Ukraine's airforce, which we now know they didn't do.
The myth of the Ghost of Kiev is probably an exaggeration, but in hindsight the idea that a pilot was flying in Kiev at the time and shooting down Russian aircraft is not only plausible but very likely.
Probably?
You have some knowledge about that the rest of the world doesn't?
It is truly shitty how Armenia is getting totally fucked by the nasty, vengeful bully of Azerbaijan. This is a muslim country bullying a smaller, weaker Christian country thanks to oil money, primarily using high tech jew weapons imported from Israel. The United States has a law banning foreign aid to Azerbaijan, which Biden waived repeatedly even AFTER its recent war of aggression against Armenia.
All you need to know about how fucked in the head the Azeris are, you can see right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Gurgen_Margaryan His murderer was celebrated as a hero in Azerbaijan.
Armenia beat Azerbaijan in a war like 30 years ago, and the Azeris have been building up for revenge for these 30 years, and now that Russia cucked itself and revealed that it is totally powerless to help Armenia, the Azeris obviously initiated plans some months ago once Russian weakness was apparent, to take advantage of the situation and invade again. And apparently they're successful because Armenia never got its shit together.
The future of all Christians in Europe.
Israel supports Azerbaijan because Armenia is allied with Iran, which is an enemy of Azerbaijan because the latter has irredentist claims on Iranian Azerbaijan.
I looked this up. They aren't really "allied", they just are friendly because Azerbaijan and Iran, despite being the 2 major Shia Muslim nations, picked opposite sides in the West/Russia dispute. Azerbaijan picked Turkey and Israel as it's major allies, which are both on the "Western" side. Meanwhile Armenia and Iran are both pro-Russia and to some extent anti-West. I don't think Armenia is inherently anti-West like Iran, it just needed to pick Russia out of necessity since the West wasn't going to give it any protection, but the Armenians thought (wrongly, now) that Russia would help them and deter Azerbaijan.
Also: "In 2018, Azerbaijan suspended oil and gas trade with Iran in support to the United States' reintroduced sanctions on Iran, which prompted hostility on the part of Iran's government towards Azerbaijan."
This really doesn't sound like an "alliance" to me: "During the July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes, Azerbaijan and Armenia were called on by Iran to show restraint.[99] When hostility resumed between Azerbaijan and Armenia in September war, Azerbaijani media outlets accused Iran of tacit support for Armenia, while Iran denied these accusations and stated its act to make peace in Karabakh.[100][101][102] Iran also reaffirmed its support for the "territorial integrity" of Azerbaijan."
If Armenia and Iran were allies, Iran would be sending Armenia some military aid if not outright sending troops and/or invading Azerbaijan.
As far as I can tell, Israel supports Azerbaijan because $$$ and the Israeli defense industry has always been aggressive about selling shit to countries that are ethically questionable.
Both Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan hold Russian bases, but all combat personnel (or 85% of all) have left to be demilitarized in Ukraine.
Azeri forces have hit Russian bases and vehicles in Armenia (including the FSB "humanitarian mission in the combat zone") to no Russian response of any kind, other than fleeing.
You're as consistent in opposing aggression as are the corrupt Western leaders who now fund the Azeri war machine, and are directly responsible for aggression and genocide against Armenia.
I found it:
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/12iNeGUNKo/united-femdom-state-media-gettin/c/
How embarrassing. Fortunately, they didn't praise Aliyev into the skies, nor did they have a photo-op with him - like the EU's war criminal in chief did.
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1549008925806268416
But they're so free and democratic! They have about HUMAN RIGHTS and NON-AGGRESSION sooooooo much!
Russian generosity has limits. They are already resupplying Ukraine at breakneck speed - how many countries' militaries do people expect them to hand out free equipment to?
Don't you worry, they'll never come close to equaling the $21 billion that the Americans left for the Taliban after they got their asses kicked by goatherds, after spending $2 trillion, and having their soldiers blown up by "sworn enemies of the Taliban" whom the Taliban had broken out of prison.
I doubt it was that much, or anywhere near. Most of the value would have been in the relatively small number of aircraft, the vast majority of which fled to neighboring countries like Uzbekistan. And also, what equipment was left was given to the Afghan Army, which chose not to fight because they simply didn't believe in the cause they were asked to fight for (equal rights for women).
Okay so I looked it up: the TOTAL spent on equipment (and transport) for Afghanistan since 2001 = $18 billion. However, this does not mean there was $18 billion of shit lying around in 2021 for the Taliban to take. First, we'd have to eliminate what was spent on transportation, which isn't broken out. Second, obviously a large portion of the remainder would have broken down or worn out or gotten lost over the course of 20 years, and a significant amount would have been spent on maintenance and repairs. The US counted 73 aircraft left behind that were totally gutted and inoperable before the US left. What was operable almost all took off and flew to neighboring countries. The only evidence I've seen of anything flying that got left behind was a few helicopters.
Anyway the more accurate number looks like $7 billion: https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/more-than-7b-in-us-military-equipment-seized-by-taliban-pentagon-watchdog/
So this is where you are just lying. Americans never "got their asses kicked" by the Taliban, and of course the Taliban were not "goatherds" regardless, just like the NVA were not "rice farmers". The United States clearly and decisively won all combat as a rule in Afghanistan.
You can say the US lost the war because of a failure of political will, but you cannot say we got our "asses kicked". That's just factually untrue. So the question is, why do you feel the need to lie? The answer is: to salt the wound. And the question is why do you need to salt the wound? The answer is: because you have a serious problem with butthurt over the United States that clouds your ability to use logic and reason. It's like TDS but over America.
It's what the so called "fact-checkers" claimed when people said the number was $80 billion - which they claimed included the training.
Which I hope was sold to the Chinese for inspection and reverse engineering.
The NLF were.
And Pyrrhus of Epirus also decisively won all combat in the first two years. He still had to stage a humiliating withdrawal, like another country.
We didn't get our asses kicked because "political will" is quite a claim. That's what the French claimed after World War II. Of course, there was no way they could have won after their main armies had been surrounded due to disastrous military decisionmaking.
I hate the corrupt criminals who rule over me far more than I hate the United States. But to answer your question: because the said corrupt criminals are your puppets. And because you have no principles (and neither do your puppets). You care about Russia invading a corrupt puppet country because Russia is your enemy and that country is your puppet. When Azerbaijan invades Armenia, you don't give a damn, in fact, your puppets are funding the Azeri war machine. And yet you're not even honest about it, that this is 100% and solely about your own interests, not about the "rules-based international order" which is Western hegemony that should be smashed.
See, the problem is that I have to say 'you' here, while I do believe that you are well-intentioned. Your criminal government, on the other hand... (I'm shocked that a government which shoots 14-year-old boys who are its own citizens at Ruby Ridge has no problem exterminating 14-year-old boys in other countries en masse.)
The French were defeated on the battlefield. The US was not.
No, he by definition did NOT win DECISIVELY, hence the term "Pyrrhic Victory", which means when you technically win, but you take such high casualties that you are effectively defeated regardless since you are forced to retreat. Again, this didn't happen with the US. The US basically suffered 0 combat casualties for years and years leading up to the withdrawal since we only had a small footprint left in support positions and that was enough to keep the Taliban down UNTIL Biden decided to pull all support, which caused the Afghans to collapse and give up. The Afghans were still fighting and capable of winning in 2020, but then collapsed in 2021 very quickly after Biden totally abandoned them. And the Biden admin KNEW this is why it was going to shit and didn't reverse course because the Democrats wanted out, even if it was going to be ugly.
Most Viet Cong were a combat force, not rice farmers, and they got utterly destroyed when they tried to launch a major offensive, the Tet Offensive. SOME civilians affiliated with the VC were "rice farmers", but they didn't engage in combat, they did shit like planting mines and traps.
You give the US too much credit. Our leaders are too incompetent to puppet anyone.
I have principles. The Democrats don't, they just want power, globohomo, and to impose their weird, destructive socialist ideology. You need to understand that the Democrats are only about half the US, and the other half, myself included, have plenty of principles and oppose them. That said, you could see from the Trump presidency that Trump could not go up against the deep state by himself and win. This is going to be a generational struggle and my hope is that DeSantis or someone similar can finally start to roll back the Left's control of government.
I didn't want Russia to be my enemy. There were many times since the 1990s where I and other conservatives thought "Hey Russia, the Cold War is over, let's join forces and both kill some fucking terrorists, okay?" but sadly, Putin didn't want to make nice with us and wanted to keep the Cold War going in his own way. The Democrats even embarrassingly did the Reset button but again, Russia wasn't interested. Okay, then. If Putin wanted to keep us as an enemy, I guess he can get his wish.
I oppose Russian (or Chinese or anyone else) empire-building because it constitutes a threat to the world economic and trade order that underlies western prosperity and GDP growth. I wouldn't mind at all if 3rd world countries were colonies of European countries and exploited for resources like the old days. If anything, that would just benefit the whole world. But Russia and China want to OVERTHROW and REPLACE the western-led economic order, and that fucks with my money, so fuck them, they can get fucked wrecked in a war and kept in their place.
Ukraine might be corrupt by EU standards, but not as corrupt as Russia.
Ukraine has never been a US puppet. Instead, it was simply a democratic country that wanted to turn away from Russia and towards the EU. It will likely fully join the EU after this war is over.
I do, actually. I have stated my support for Armenia and opposition to Azerbaijan many times. I support Armenia because it's a Christian nation invaded by a Muslim one, and because Azerbaijan is the aggressor and I view them as Palestinian-like genocidal assholes. I also supported Serbia in the 90s for similar reasons, and opposed the EU/NATO bullying of Serbia.
Here is my post complaining that Biden himself is funding them: https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/15JUCeqxGA/joe-biden-is-responsible-for-the/c/
You keep saying "you" attached to comments that clearly do not apply to me. I agree that the liberals should be smashed. If we had an "international order" run by people like Trump, DeSantis, and other right wing leaders, the world would be a much better place that wasn't obsessed with trannies, faggots, and other mentally ill people. We would actually allow countries to maintain common sense immigration laws to preserve their national identity and culture like Japan does, instead of getting fucked like Sweden.
Thank you, but you don't have to say "you", you can say "the Biden admin". And look, I admit that even if Republicans win in 2024, the 95% of Democrats control of career government jobs isn't going to disappear. This is a MAJOR generational problem that will take decades to root out and reform. The deep state of unelected bureaucrats totally undermined Trump and make it much more difficult for him to get things done.
We have a problem right now where the only way we are going to reform our government is to keep winning elections so that we can keep up the pressure so the Democrats can't just play for time for 4 years and then take back power like what happened with Trump. We need to hold the Presidency for 8-20 years to really make a generational, deep cultural change in government.
And you should also be honest that the US is never going to lose a war, so change from the outside simply isn't going to happen. China has no shot. Not only is China a lot weaker than it looks on paper, but when it finally starts a war, it won't ONLY be fighting the US, it will be fighting everyone else nearby, like Australia, Japan, and others, possibly India. China is basically the last major threat to the global world order, and it doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of overthrowing it. It's just a question of how messy it is going to be for the CCP to finally fall, and how many people have to die. My preference is for fewer people to die, and that requires a decisive victory.
There is a significant chance that if nothing changes fundamentally with the Democrats, that the US will continue to divide on Red/Blue lines until we have another "civil war" which likely won't be a bloody conflict but will instead be more of a national divorce with both sides refusing to continue with the "winner take all" federal government. If anything it might be the Blue states that try to secede if Republicans keep winning the White House, and I can tell you that I would WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT select deep blue states leaving the US so that conservatives could control the rest.
No 'defeat' is final. It's only final when you decide that you don't want to hold it out anymore.
The cause of the Pyrrhic victory can be anything. Clearly, the costs were too high for the US to sustain them. Ergo, the US was defeated.
And our leaders are so incompetent that they do not need anyone competent to puppet them.
Yes, and I think even a lot of rank-and-file Democrats do have principles, they're just very deluded. Also, a lot of GOP politicians don't. That is the problem. But that is why the sophisticated propaganda apparatus exists to make sure that the people are persuaded of what the politicians want them to believe. And that is why pure power plays like this "Ukraine" crap is always cloaked in something that the average American will find acceptable.
As you say, the regime is the problem, not the figureheads at the top.
Are you completely mad? You think that it's Russia that wasn't playing nice? Not the people who betrayed Russia and kept expanding NATO as well as sponsoring coups and revolutions in countries allied to Russia, despite knowing full well that Russia was not happy with this, and wouldn't accept it?
They benefited at the time. They would not benefit now, as the European countries would just push homosexuality, racial divison and feminist claptrap down their throats.
There is nothing 'democratic' about Ukraine, or other countries in the EU. They sure as hell aren't doing anything that is to the benefit of the people.
Very good. Unfortunately, too often American power gets put to use to help genocidal assholes, which is why I'm hoping that countries like Russia and China will destroy American power.
The problem is that eventually, "libs" are going to come to power again, assuming for a moment that they will ever be dislodgded to begin with. The result of that is that any increase in American power will just give those libs more power with which to push globohomo. So DeSantis makes America stronger, and after him President AOC or whatever will just use it to wreck even more places.
It's not Biden or any "administration". Else the problem would be solved with a change of person at the top. It is the regime.
Good luck with that, I'm definitely rooting for you. But I don't think that you will succeed, because you are no more democratic than we are.
I don't think that is going to happen. And that is why so called 'elections' are so useful to the elites. Even if by some off chance someone who is not to their liking gets into office, he'll soon be replaced and everything he did is overturned.
I am happy with some of the stuff on the state level though, but judges generally ruin those too.
India isn't going to war with a nuclear power over Taiwan. Same as Australia and Japan. But it will depend on judgments of Chinese strength or weakness. If China repeats the Russia stuff with India, in that it settled its border disputes and made a solid ally out of it, there can be a broader alliance to smash American hegemony.
You speak of the 'global world order' as if it's a good thing. It means that America can murder hundreds of thousands, if not millions, while hypocritically crying about the actions of others.
Ironically, internal conflict is what did Rome in, at least the Roman Republic.
The problem is that even conservative states are like 60-40. And liberal states 40-60. It does not eliminate the enemy within. It will only encourage conservatives to overreach, which will then lead to a realignment that still have liberals being competitive. There are no permanent victories.
As a general rule most politicians are going to be politicians because they're narcissists, not because they actually care about policy. Rand Paul is a good example of a politician who cares about policy. Ted Cruz is a good example of a guy who is split about 50/50 between policy and narcissism. Probably 80-90% are just in it for the clout.
Yes.
If Russia played nice eventually it would have been able to join NATO itself.
The West, myself included, reject this whole "sphere of influence" horse shit. Russia does not have ownership over countries like Georgia just because they're near Russia.
I reject that the West sponsored any coups or revolutions. People in places like Georgia and Ukraine came to want to join the West because the West is clearly superior. It turns out people like wealth and a high standard of living, who knew? The majority of people don't even mind trannies, faggots, and BLM if it means they get to consoom.
The Democrats love to act as the enforcers for the EU. Your hopes are in vain, though. Russia is already broken as a power and has been unmasked as a weakling. China - as a country with its military built entirely according to Russian tech and doctrine - is also by extension weaker than everyone thought 9 months ago. China will be able to cause messy wars in the future unless it is brought to heel economically, but those wars have a 0% chance of actually overthrowing the international order. Everyone will gang up on China.
It's possible to crush the power of the wokes to the point where the Democrats shift to the Right enough that even when they regain power, they are forced to follow a more moderate path. We just have to keep showing the American people how crazy the wokes are until "woke" becomes radioactive.
Republicans have a better chance than China, that's for sure.
India will 100% go to war with China because it hates China and would love to have a chance to bully China and throw the Chinese out of the disputed border regions. when China has its hands full fighting on many other fronts. Also India isn't afraid of China's nukes. India has its own nukes.
Australia and Japan are 100% down to war with China. I don't know why you seem to think everyone is scared of nukes. They aren't. Nukes are a joke. As long as everyone has them, they cancel out. And Japan/AUS are under the US nuclear shield anyway.
The CCP hates India and devotes a lot of resources to planning to attack and defeat it in a war. The CCP has 0 interest in "teaming up" with India. India and China are natural enemies, and their hostility is only going to get worse as a lot of supply chains begin to leave China for India in the next 5 years.
If you have a 60/40 advantage in the US, you basically get full Left or Right wing policies, no compromise. The only way for the minority party to compete is to only run as slightly more left/right of the dominant party, such that you end up with RINOs like Mitt Romney who are still quite liberal. I would be totally fine with DINOs who basically agreed with all conservative policy except they wanted a little more welfare.
The US defeated the Taliban over and over again, and could have occupied the country for decades, even centuries if it wanted to secure the necessary cultural change.
...But political pressures back home prevented that. Therefore, it's completely accurate to say that the US did not have the political will to win.
Compare it to the British blockade of the Atlantic to destroy the slave trade - that took over seventy years of constant military presence to achieve.