My suspicion is social media. The hustle culture and billionaires are glazed over; as in there is subliminal messaging to condition to the plebians to worship the rich and lick their boots.

I’m not surprised. People don’t even wash their hands after using the rest room.

Because that’s what they want you to do. They gish gallop and you end up having to rebut all the point to tire you out. My experience over the years with extremists on all sides is to call out their bad faith tactics and cut the chase. For example, with the Uyghur issue, tankies always claim that the accusation of genocide only came from one complainant and the West supoosedly chose to blow it out of proportions. But that talking point easily falls apart because it’s not just one, but hundreds and thousands of complaints. Most people would rather get on with their lives than waste time with making false accusations. There are far too many to ignore and where there is smoke there is fire.

This is nothing new under the sun.

An individual could block .ml instances, but I choose not to so I could keep calling out their bs. It’s not win an argument and stoke my ego, but it is for any would reader to see how nonsensical .ml users themselves and their ideas are.

Russian trolls could not even spin this. This is getting embarrassing for Russia.

The US really pissed away any strategic advantage it may have had with that little stunt sanctioning a few justices and prosecutors.

You don’t understand the fascist perspective. They think international cooperation and consensus is not a strategic advantage BUT a hindrance. They only think hard power is the only power.

But paradoxically, truth be told, there has never been an international order or law to follow. Joe Biden himself affirmed that US will invade the International Criminal Court if an American citizen is arrested. Trump and co. simply took the mask off.

My Polish schoolmates returned to Poland, especially after the recession.

Bold of you to assume I’m American.

Since you stayed in your country, I could ask you support the fascists in your country?

The current Georgian government is pro-Russian. They will allow the fleeing Russians in and possibly use them to further divide their own country.

Any pro-Russian governments in any country don’t care what happens to their own country as long as they line their own pockets.

I heard many Russians abroad support the invasion of Ukraine. But they are abroad precisely because they ran away from mobilisation. It seems like they want the benefits but none of the consequences of supporting an immoral war.

It’s not authoritarianism if I do it!

I wonder why Poles are pretty racists despite having experienced the same colonial and imperial struggles. The Poles who sided with former black Haitian slaves would be rolling on their graves.

It’s unfortunate. Arms build up is one of those where it’s important initially for self-defense but eventually becomes corrupt. It’s making a pact with the devil and expecting the due will never come.

Russia is losing on the battlefield – and on the global stage

On the global stage, yes, but i would not overstate Ukrainian’s gains in the past three months. Ukraine have retaken lands smaller towns and villages, but in Donbas, Russia is close to capturing Konstantinyivka, a city which is the gateway to the bigger city of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk. Even if it took Russia two years and lost more soldiers than the Ukrainians in capturing Konstantinyivka, its fall of is something that should not be underestimated and could serve as a propaganda victory for Kremlin to cover their overall net territorial losses.

If I am Zelensky, my maximalist demand is not to get the Russian out completely (because that is a Sysiphean task), but to hold on to Kramatorsk and Slovyansk to prevent the full capture of the Donbas region and embarass Kremlin to deliver a political defeat when the end of war comes.

They became the number one arms manufacturer in Europe. Their expertise is being shared to many countries including the Gulf states. After the war, I would say that Ukraine’s major industry is arms manufacturing especially on drones.

Speaking of drones, what Ukraine lacks in manpower makes up for it in drones. Their innovative use of it reclaimed a huge tract of land which reverses Russian gains in two years. Russia this year is at a net loss of territory held.

I love my Polish friends, but Poland has a bad reputation about being overly nationalistic to say the least.

I wonder how many Irish were surveyed and what they think. We are unfortunately too Americanised in terms of consumerism and many still buy from Amazon.

It’s a nothingburger. The West already supports Ukraine in evey way, so it’s obvious China does similar to Russia except short of overtly selling arms and more loans to Kremlin because the Beijing is afraid of secondary sanctions. 90% of all Chinese banks did not want to loan to Russia because of this. Training Russians has less consequences for China.

Yeah people tend to create a bubble of their own and wilfully ignore controversies.

This is embarrassing for us in Ireland. And yeah, unfortunately the job angle is a dilemma. It’s the same reason that weapons manufacturers are hard to take down because they are jobs providers to peripheral regions of a country, such as the American desert states and Scotland in UK, despite their products being used to kill and maim the innocent. This is why we can’t have nice things in a capitalist system.