26 Jan 2023 8:44 am
Well, most of what you are saying is probably notions I would agree with. Still, let me ask you one question. Why did Putin invade Ukraine other than his desire for Russian glory? You said it was something he "had" to do. Motive is key here.Cannonpointer » 26 Jan 2023, 12:31 am » wrote: ↑ No. Russia was a benefitting partner in the PREVIOUS global regime. The USSR did some serious pillaging under the previous regime - as did the NATO alliance. But the USSR's oligarchy got sold out by gorby, and Russia became a kleptocracy. Putin came in a decade and a clownshow later (google,"Boris Yeltsin") and put a stop to that ****. He worked very, very hard and very, very patiently to rebuild Russia as a functional nation state.
The western press labeled HIM a kleptocrat, for ending the kleptocracy that benefitted the west's oligarchs (yes, we have oligarchs).
Russia offered to join NATO. NATO said no, because it raison d'etre is to sack Russia and steal its wealth.
Russia began the century on its knees - sacked by internal and external oligarchs. Putin rebuilt Russia's capacity and integrity to the point that Russia defeated the U.S. in the Syrian proxy war.
Google "Bashar al-Assad." You will learn that America's INTENDED, DECLARED regime change did not occur.
People are dying in post-vax America now. Women are being forcibly imprisoned with convicted male rapists. We recently saw cities burned and looted, cops gunned by angry mobs in RACE RIOTS; Hundreds die weekly in gang murders. Maybe your nose belongs in your own backyard. Let's get OUR house in order, and then take on the planet.
Perhaps the media that inform your opinions aren't being honest.
Please list the colonizers who did not provide benefits, yet still managed to colonize. I'll start the list for you:
1. Fantasy Land
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Yes, global poverty and hunger has continued to decline as global population has RISEN - unlike the narrative you have been fed. Thanks for noticing an actual fact in this post. Indeed, you could likely super-impose charts of hunger decreasing and global human population rising and see a direct correlation - as if the one tracked the other. As if humans were resources and not a cancer or a pollutant or a crisis.
Russia responding to U.S. and NATO aggression will not be the reason that trend is reversed. The machinations of the people who control the information you consume will be at cause in the matter. Russians will be at effect (though not nearly as much as western nations, as Russians have a leader).
Nothing is easier than defending the status quo.