Ah, sorry, I forgot where I post…

When you go either of directions far enough, you’ll eventually meet woth people going the other way.

Yes, would be hilarious.

Fuck each and every warmonger there is on Earth. No exceptions.

Problem of fucks solved.

It could be included with “fuck Netanyahu” couldn’t it? Because that’s what would fuck him the most.

Well, that’s much better answer than previous one and thanks for that. The previous one seemed pretty much like obligatory “That’s racist!” shout just for the sake of feeling oppressed.

(Un)fortunately I can’t probably see the big picture of different parts of the world as I live in a country where the biggest racial minority is around 0,5%… White women are treated equally as they should here, because well, they are such a huge majority. And I truly believe nobody would even dare to think about racial bias.

Three words: Elephant. Balloon. Library.

Does it make sense? No? Good.

Or hell.

I think we can agree that we disagree in most core parts. I could argue with you and point out that your logic can be twisted (“influence from propaganda” etc.) but I choose not to. It’s not that I sweep your comment of the table. There’s definitely some points I agree with you (not everything needs to be US/west centric), but at the same time I believe simple “falling under different hegemon’s sphere” won’t change much for the better. Part of why I came to this conclusion was studying history of my own country.

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The fuck man? Why would I lie about it? You’re acting like you’re some kind of superior being believing in communism. But I tell you one thing. On paper it is wonderful idea (it truly is), but people are people, so it will never work as history proved multiple times.

EDIT: Just checked your username. If it’s not just funny made up thing, you should know a thing or two about it already.

it benefits the 7 milliard people

Does it really? I believe it does, to certain degree, but only until Russia exploit those countries the same (or worse) than others did before.

What they’re doing in Ukraine isn’t imperialism, it’s self defense.

I do not agree on this one. I just believe it started as Putin’s wish to reunite USSR to its former glory. His words years ago: “The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century.”

And has your country improved? Is employment more dignified and abundant, are more people educated, class differences smaller, is infrastructure and housing being built more rapidly?

Yes, vastly improved in most regards. Employment is more meaningful nowadays (for people that are willing to work) and general standard of living improved unbelievably. Not sure if it was my country specific, but being unemployed was illegal back then. So it led to existence of jobs that were complete fake (existed just on paper, mostly jobs for friend-of-a-friend among elites) or jobs that were absolutely meaningless (like moving stuff from one place to another and then back) and time and will wasting (e.g night time security of empty warehouse). Simply put “jobs” just for the sake of not being unemployed. This stopped, because nobody would waste money on these jobs now. Some people miss them though, because they used to get paid for nothing.

Education is another example. Back then state had “assessment” on everyone and e.g. when parents were not members of communist party it was almost impossible to get to university (sometimes even high school). Now it’s on everyone’s abilities, universities are free (of both charge and prejudice) and if one is able enough, there’s nothing stopping him.

Class differences is tough question. This one did not really improve, it more like side-stepped. Nowadays there’s this kind of a few extremely rich people, followed by society divided by a bit wider scissors, but… There are options now to get better life, be it education, hard work, or even traveling abroad for work. Back then there weren’t (to my knowledge) this extremely wealthy people, but there still was quite large amount of “elites” that were way way way above everyone else. Most people were more or less forced to live just above poverty line (state controlled everything, including job transfers). Imagine waiting months to years to be able to buy stuff like fridge or washing machine (either due to lack of money or being too far in waiting list). These rules were set in stone and chance of getting oneself even one bracket above was minimal in legal manners (thus bribing thrived). Is it ideal now? Definitely not, but I wouldn’t go back.

Infrastructure and housing. Well, again it’s somewhere in between. I’d say in terms of housing it used to be “quantity above quality” back then and this one switched now. New houses (even old renovated ones) are far superior to what was standard back then. It ain’t cheap though. If you lowered your standards to previous era levels, you can still get your own house/flat pretty cheap - surprisingly nobody wants to do that, because people want fancy things. In terms of infrastructure, we’re seeing dark side of capitalism (or peoples dumbness). It’s often like this: There’s going to be new road, but city/state doesn’t really care and pick cheapest contractor. The road obviously sucks and needs to be repaired almost immediately. But the road already cost a lot, so what happens? Cheapest contractor is selected so the repair is botched too… Who doesn’t swear on roads in his country, though? Luckily other parts of infrastructure are not that bad.

Do you think Russia does what it does for the greater good of these people? Isn’t Russia doing basically what every other imperial power did since long time ago? Conquer or at least control, because they want to be imperial power too?

Sure, US ain’t no saint, EU neither, nobody is basically. But for me personally Russia represent something worse than those mentioned before. Not regular russian people, I even have some in my family, but people in power. Those who turn one of the richest country (in terms of natural resources) into powerty to build their billion dollar mansions, yachts and other luxury, while regular people can count themself lucky if they have flushing toilet and asphalt road in their street.

If you want to know a bit of my background, I live in a country that was 40 years under USSR “occupation”, so I’m obviously not a big fan…

I’m ok with downvotes, that’s what free speech is for. At least I don’t have to avoid passing around windows or drinking tea.

At least Iran and Russia’s interests are aligned with most of the world against imperial core countries.

This. I count myself like one of the most of the world part and I definitely DO NOT aligh with any interests Russia had in past 100 years.

That second paragraph. It’s just so mind boggling for me.

Wtf did I just read? Have you ever been to Russia or any of the post-soviet block republic? Or are you just fantasizing from other side of the world?

Excuse my english, should have probably used word wrong there.

As a non-native I see no difference between Amazon and the Amazon, but picture make it pretty clear we’re speaking the bad wrong Amazon to go down here.

Too bad I’m not from western world…

Surely a reputable source and the numbers are definitely not made up.