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That’s because you live in a place with single payer. In the US, a $35 flat rate can save a lot of lives for people who have no options.
That’s because you live in a place with single payer. In the US, a $35 flat rate can save a lot of lives for people who have no options.
Yeah lots of thirst traps. I have the big issue on FB shorts. I have to admit I’ve taken the bait and honestly it’s not worse than anything else on my feed so whatever.
I live in Czechia, so it is not so easy to pigeonhole me politically as you like. I am simply someone who understands the reality of living in this part of the world.
Russia have stated their aims of conquest openly and in public many times. The only one living in a fantasy is the one that doesn’t listen to their own damn words and makes up some alternate reality which conflicts with what they themselves say they want.
Russia is easily strong enough to take Ukraine and really all of Europe if the West does nothing. And at that point they will have a bigger GDP and 2-3 times the population of the US, so no reason to stop there. Which is the whole reason the US started NATO in the first place.
The West has done just enough to prevent that from happening. If the West withdrew all their support and just relied on the the goodness of Putin’s heart, the US would be standing alone in direct conflict with Russia (owning Europe) , China (owning most of Asia), Iran, and North Korea within a decade. And they’d have a less than half the production and less than 20% of the population with which to do it.
Yes, just like we did with Hitler after he annexed the Sudetenland.
You’d think that after Russia’s invasion and annexation of land in Georgia, Moldova, Chechnya, and now Ukraine, people would wake the fuck up and start to see the pattern here, but I guess not.
Putin’s government has very clearly stated their desire to conquer these territories out loud and in public. But somehow people like you continue to think that we can just allow them to conquer land of neighboring countries and somehow they will magically stop all of a sudden when we negotiate.
Yes, they will stop long enough to rebuild their army for the next conquest.
Why don’t you just take them at their word rather than making some some fantasy about them?
If Ukrainians don’t fight, they will just be taken by Russia to fight in the next war after they are conquered, just like the Chechens are being used to fight Ukrainians today.
So they will be dying in war either way, the only question is if they will die fighting against Russia or fighting against another innocent country that Russia wants to conquer next.
Moldova, then Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, then Poland. Each population being genocided in the war against the next, just like Chechens are today in Ukraine.
How many new soldiers does that equate to?
Then why are they letting Russia use starlink?
So basically ongoing imperialist conquest and subjugation in modern times is justified because anyone did it in the past? Bullshit.
Definition of imperialism: The extension of a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
Definition of hegemony: The dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others.
I would be a little more nuanced with my definitions personally. I think Russia is textbook imperialist. I think China is borderline imperialist, and I think the USA is more hegemonic.
I think all 3 play all the same games except that the USA doesn’t play in territorial expansion, which for me is a big improvement over those that do.
Do you consider things which happened hundreds of years ago to be of the same weight as things that are happening as we speak?
Interesting for you to fold under even the first question to explain your position, but so be it.
But assuming that one has to be dominant, which would you choose of the ones that are realistic possibilities?
I think it’s a great idea. I’m really tempted by a phone with primarily productivity functionality and a qwerty keyboard.