Zelensky applies formally to NATO. Welcome to WW3.
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Now you are trolling. When was the USSR ever "defeated"?
The USSR left because Gorbachev wanted to.
Either you are ignorant, or you don't believe that.
Also nice job ignoring that your government fell in minus 3 weeks, while theirs lasted 3 years.
Who is “his government”?
The US govt.
You're going to make me fire up wikipedia now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Khost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Maravar_Pass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jaji
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arghandab_(1987)
Even at its peak, while the USSR Russians were certainly far more capable than the Russians of today, they were still a second-tier force far less efficient and effective than western forces.
Yes, but Gorbachev didn't want to out of idiotic ideology like Biden, Gorbachev wanted out because Afghanistan was a massive drag on the USSR both in terms of sapping it militarily as well as politically. He was cutting losses. Biden, on the other hand, inherited a won war which was only in a very low level maintenance phase where only a small US force was good enough to support the Afghans to hold down the Taliban indefinitely.
Unfortunately, dumbass Trump, [Trump's Afghan idiocy was one area he broke with Republicans and conservatives] with his massive hard-on for isolationism and being "historic" - imagining it was his "Nixon goes to China" moment - had already made moves to try to "make peace" with the Taliban. This gave Biden the political cover he needed to simply pull out without any real peace, whining "Trump started it". He didn't do this because the Taliban was putting pressure in terms of casualties - no Americans had died in combat in YEARS - but rather because the Democrat base sees the US military as evil occupiers and wants us pulled out of everywhere except when the Euros need some muscle to beat up someone the international media doesn't like (Assad, Gaddafi, Milosevic).
So there is a big difference in causation. For Biden, he was simply satisfying his activist voting base, whose motives had absolutely nothing to do with the success of the operation. For Gorbachev, he wanted to get the USSR out from under its diplomatic pariah status as well as stop the bleeding from a war that wasn't going well for Russia and was going to be a big drag in casualties and money for the foreseeable future.
The US has always been cursed with craven "allies". The South Vietnamese were shitty people and utter incompetents. The US demanded its allies follow globohomo and offered fat sums of money to comply. This results in the cultivation of greedy cowards who arrive only to suckle and leech. That's the down side of being free market capitalist instead of ideological communist. Communism does an outstanding job of tricking fools into fighting and dying for lost causes. Capitalism teaches people to give up and run away to selfishly save their own skins the moment sentiment shifts.
Also, you're being disingenuous. As you full well know, the Soviets continued to support and prop up their proxy after they left. The whole reason the Afghani coward government collapsed and the Afghani army refused to fight, was that Biden had pulled all support as part of his "get us the fuck out no matter what" policy even after having made the Afghanis dependent on that support. So the Afghanis got rug pulled and lost all their contractor support. Air cover and recon and intel and logistics were all pulled out from under them, and they were like "fuck this, I'm not going to fight so women can vote". About 10k Afghani commandos were actually willing to fight, and had successfully held the Taliban on their own for a few years already, yet they required a long support tail. When we rug pulled them, I believe one of their units got stuck and fucked over. After that, they basically said "fuck this" and went home.
Oh, and that's another failure of western liberalism: the arrogant hubris that liberal politics is The Correct Answer and that all societies must inexorably obsess over the "rights" of women -> faggots -> trannies in that order, so when they run into a people who are like "lol no gtfo with that shit", they don't understand what is going on. Libtards can't even conceive that a society could exist based on anything other than globohomo, and any dissenters are just seen as evil/ignorant, much like how you see Biden talking about "MAGA Republicans" even now.
I've already told you that the true cause for the US inability to end the Taliban was pure globohomo. If the US had merely told the Afghanis, "you can have a Constitution based on sharia law and you don't have to given women rights if you don't want to" the war would have been over in a few years and Afghanistan would be just another conservative muslim country like saudi arabia. The whole reason they kept fighting was to resist the imposition of globohomo.
lol, the Soviets lost a battle a year after they withdrew. Brilliant.
With equal forces, yes. And yet they did a better job in Afghanistan than you did, and their regime lasted longer.
I actually agree with you here. I don't agree that it was 'won'. The Taliban didn't spring from one moment to the next as Athena from Zeus' head. It was lurking in the background waiting for you to leave.
Two years after the INF?
This is a pretty impressive analysis.
Yeah, so what? Is it not impressive that a deeply unpopular government survived for three whole years? When your supposedly elected government fell even before you left.
You say all the right things. But then you back the Globohomo empire to the hilt when it's vs. Russia. What exactly has Putin done to you that has you so mad at him?
That certainly is part of it.
INF & Afghanistan withdrawal were examples of Gorbachev trying to restore the USSR diplomatically. He also reversed the prior Soviet stance of hostility to China (which I'd think you'd agree with), and the Chinese were opposed to Afghanistan as well.
I'm very open to criticizing the weaknesses of "my own" side. I think the US has done a generally poor job cultivating local allies, and only manages to not fuck it up when the raw material itself is of extremely high quality or otherwise highly motivated apart from the US [Japan > Taiwan > S Korea > Hmong/Montagnards]. By contrast, the commies did an excellent job indoctrinating and mobilizing the locals into a force that could hold its own. It didn't work in Afghanistan because Islam > communism for muslim cultures. America would be far more successful in developing local allies if it did not attempt to impose its globohomo culture through the State Department, which is probably the pinnacle of the globohomo movement. I would gut the State Department and all-but-abolish it.
I don't tolerate empire-builders because they threaten the world economy and free trade we all rely on to make money and advance as a species. Putin was a threat to that prosperity and would have just been a bigger nuisance as time went on unless and until he got stopped, so stopping him sooner is better. Most of my net worth is invested in S&P 500 stock, and Putin's defeat will lead to strong long term gains as it will hasten the economic development of Russia and therefore the profit opportunities for S&P 500 companies in Russia/Ukraine and former SSR states. Putin's kleptocracy keeps Russia somewhat poor.
Putin's defeat in Ukraine will probably lead to the fall of Putin's regime and a more democratic Russia that no longer operates as a threat, which will, in turn, lead to a democratic and free country based on more conservative social values. Using the examples of Poland and Hungary, we can see that it is possible to undermine globohomo from within, and this is, in fact, the only possible way to destroy it. The sooner Russia joins Poland and Hungary and others [hopefully] in nations which have both prosperity and right wing cultural values, the better.
The defeat and crushing of Russian military power will lead to the irrelevance/end of NATO and mean the US will finally be able to greatly reduce its number of bases and personnel in Europe. I favor a "pivot to China" and I would prefer to see US troop/bases in Europe drawn down 80%-90%.
It sends a message/warning to the CCP and provides a training run and framework for the containment, isolation, and opposition by coalition to any CCP aggression.
I support global capitalism. I support global democracy with the caveat that some peoples are unfit to self-rule and are better left subject to dictators, the prime example being middle eastern muslims, who are best contained by secular dictators as opposed to getting a vote and voting for shit like the Taliban. There is no question in my mind that if Saudi Arabia was a democracy, the Saudi people would vote in some sort of giga-Wahhabi-Taliban shit and be a huge terror supporter. Enlightened despotism is sometimes superior to democracy, [Singapore, British Hong Kong, maybe Pinochet] but the vast majority of despots are not enlightened and invariably despotic regimes choose to optimize for self preservation and fuck over their countries. [North Korea, Myanmar, Venezuela, Cuba]
Reversing hostility with China is certanly smart. But the INF proves that the USSR was not a 'pariah' contrary to your claims.
Who are the Montagnards? Only one I know are the people in the French Revolution.,
That's probably going too far as well. I think you don't realize that pushing Globohomo is in the interests of the US, which is why I oppose US power. It's conquering countries without the need for a single soldier. Look what you did to Iran. Like Darren Beattie said, the rainbow flag and not the US flag represents the empire and the extent of US power.
How very naive. Putin did not make Russia corrupt. It has always been corrupt, and it probably always will be. Like you said, you have to work with the raw material you're handed, and Putin's are rather bad. With these bad raw materials, he has done quite well for himself and his country. Quite the opposite of Western 'governments', which only make their countries worse.
Yeah, I think in a few decades, Poland and Hungary will fall to Globohomo as well. Just because they are somewhat behind, does not mean that the same forces that corrupted other Western countries will not destroy them as well. Only when you keep a firm hand, like Putin does, can you keep it at bay.
That is foolish. Imagine if you do manage your fantasy of crushing Russian military power, like the allies did in 1918 with Germany. How are you going to stop Russian revanchism? Or do you think Russians will just accept your attempted destruction of their country?
LOL! There is no democracy.