Globohomo isn't spread by the US government, it's spread by the hollywood jews.

Oh sure, blame it on da Juice.

Why do these supposed 'Hollywood Jews' (not all of whom are even Jewish) get so much power? It's because the US is the world's hegemon. If people learned Mandarin as their second language rather than English, then we would not be so vulnerable to this trash.

There is a gay muslim character in the show who barely existed in the book, who had his role massively expanded in the show so he could serve as a vehicle for nonstop LGBT propaganda, culminating in this "pure" muslim as an audience stand-in being bombarded with LGBT propaganda until he finally participates in a gay orgy, which is portrayed in the most positive light possible

This sounds almost like a parody.

I use this as an example. Your elites watch this show and they think "this is what is trending in America. this is what the coolest of the cool believe, the hottest of the hot, the most advanced and people I should most emulate in order to show how much better I am than my backward countrymen."

And I don't get it. Because no one thinks that America is cool. In fact, the best arguments I can make against wokeness are less persuasive to people than just saying that it comes from America. The elites are traitors, bought and paid for, but I already knew that.

He does, he just needs CNN to tell him what that is.

Are you seriously arguing that Senile Joe cares about what is moral? Come on man, what is this?

The USSR didn't make Ukraine the property of the Russian people. It was its own separate state within the Soviet confederation. The Russians specifically built their empire this way to avoid claims that the USSR was truly a Russian empire. Well, then they don't get to claim Ukraine was ever "theirs".

Its own separate state with zero independence, as it had under the Russian Empire.

Also, you don't get to let Ukraine be free for 30 years then change your mind. There is a statute of limitations on these things.

If Ukraine decides to be the prostitute of the West, then sure Russia gets to change its mind about whether Ukraine is allowed to be independent. The agreement was a Ukraine that was friendly to Russia, and which allowed Sevastopol as a naval base to Russia. Otherwise, it's back to Novorossiya.

Ukrainians are a distinct ethnic group with a history of horrible treatment from the Russians, such as Holodomor. So whatever claim you think Russia has to Ukraine, it is only by conquest, same as the British claim to its Empire.

The British conquered other ethnic groups though, while Ukrainians are historically known as Little Russians. Show me where Indians speak the same language as the British and are called Little English.

We gave up our own colonies, after all. If all the US cared about was power and not principle (you're projecting here) why would we give up our own colonies, especially the Philippines, after investing so much blood to reconquer it?

Same reason the European countries gave up their colonies. Because the Philippines were not worth having. Indirect rule is more profitable than direct rule.

I would have supported the european colonial powers post-WW2 and allowed them to seize the Suez canal. The US government was too worried about being on "the right side of history" and made foolish decisions.

No one cares about that. Eisenhower worried that this would help communists, because they were major parts of independence movements.

Also Russia would have similar claims on lots of other independent countries, including all the Stans, the Baltics, Belarus, and others.

Not the Baltic states, as they won their independence from the Bolsheviks and were only illegally annexed under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Besides, they are separate ethnic groups, who should have their independence respected unless they oppress their Russian minorities.

You didn't refute my point that Russia would simply stop conquering if we let it have Ukraine. You yourself have said the point of conquering Ukraine is to amass power. Well, what's the point of amassing power if not to launch further conquests?

Be a satiated power like Bismarck had Germany be after unification. It's funny how you claim that Russia is so weak that it can't even take a puppet shithole non-country, but at the same time claim that it'll be in Madrid next week.

t doctrine was shit and Soviet troops were still being defeated by the Germans in battled with 4:1 losses for the Soviets

Because the Soviets loved to launch ill-conceived assaults that led to large encirclements.

If Stalin invaded Germany, the Soviet military would have been utterly obliterated. Just look at the Winter War. Offense is much harder than defense, and the Soviets were getting crushed badly throughout Barbarossa until the mud and then the Winter saved them. If Stalin had attacked 1st, his armies would have been encircled and crushed within months. Since offensive wars don't carry the same existential threat that Barbarossa did, Stalin would have been forced to sue for peace. Alternatively, the Germans could have counter-attacked and taken advantage of the fact that the Soviet armies had already been defeated to win the victory they could not win fast enough historically.

Your argument is that the USSR only won because the Germans exhausted themselves on the offense? I guess it's a fair point, but they made major gains by being on the offense - in terms of territory, industry, population and experienced soldiers they captured and killed.

Germany benefit of surprise only lasted 1-2 weeks, tops. It wasn't that big of a benefit. As you said, Stalin knew and had lots of warnings, but he didn't trust them. Despite not trusting them, he was massively building up his military anyway, so it wasn't like he got caught with a small military.

Didn't something like 1.5 million USSR soldiers surrender in Kiev because Stalin would not let them withdraw? Imagine if they had proper defenses, and hadn't been surprised, so there wouldn't been these large encirclements.

If Germany had defeated and knocked out the UK, that would have freed up millions of troops and resources to divert to the USSR,

Millions of troops? Seems like a massive exaggeration regarding the non-existent threat that was the bleating sheep that was (and is) the UK.

The US interest in Lend Lease was primarily to benefit the UK, not the USSR.

I believe the USSR got more out of it and gave the US much less in return than the UK. Roosevelt drove a hard bargain with the UK. With the USSR, he just gave as much as he could, because he knew a USSR defeat would be disastrous for US security.

If the allies were knocked out and made peace, the US would not have launched Lend Lease solely to benefit the USSR.

On the contrary, if the US felt threatened by Germany without defeating UK, just imagine how much it would have felt threatened after it defeated the UK.

he was wrong when the Russian troops came into the battle in force in the winter of 1941.

You mean the Siberian divisions? Russian troops were fighting all along... obviously.

The US never tried to build an empire. If it did, it would have conquered the world. And Mexico? Mexico got what it deserved. It lost a weak claim to empty lands primarily populated by Americans, not Mexicans.

Ukraine got what it deserved. It lost a weak claim to empty lands primarily populated by Russians, not Ukrainins.

I don't know what you're talking about. I've read the histories of Hitler's private conversations, not state propaganda. Hitler did not believe Stalin was going to attack any time soon.

Obviously, he didn't believe that, but he claimed that Stalin was going to attack to justify his own attack. So he was 'playing the victim' in your terminology.

Neither Hitler nor Tojo pretended that their wars of aggression were actually purely defensive, and they they were the true victims of aggression. This is a uniquely Russian thing. Barbarossa broke the Russian psyche. Ever since Barbarossa, Russians have this attitude of entitlement to bully and oppress and conquer in their name of their own supposed defense.

I'm pretty sure it was no different before that. The Winter War came before Barbarossa, after all.