People who don’t want Russia to acquire resources and think they should be stopped from getting them by force are not pro-Russia. Graham ALSO wants them to fight, you are in complete agreement with him. Are you also a Ruzzian stooge?
Gotta love that rules based international order.
Well I only speak for myself but I don’t care for Putin personally. I think it’s a shame he’s the head of state, I really wish he wasn’t the favored successor of the guy the US helped install at the head of the new state after the USSR started to fold. That entire era was a massive human rights tragedy, I think we agree.
I think what is irritating to a lot of people who aren’t pro-Ukraine is that the entire world knew there was a fascism problem before the war. Now we’re expected to support them like they’re noble underdogs, because the government wants to do things western governments approve of.
I don’t think it’s good to round up young men and force them to die in a war they don’t want to participate in. I have no control over Putin but a bunch of my labor value is being used, against my will, to turn a bunch of people into corpses.
I think one thing that’s getting lost in the discussion here is you keep talking about governments as if they are people. Ostensibly liberal states exist to protect human beings and their rights. At the point where “you” have to let “your” values slide in order to deal with “your” existential crisis we are talking about the governent as if it has feelings and its own aspirations that deserve to be treated with the same seriousness we theoretically want to apply to human welfare.
I feel very bad for Ukrainians, to be clear, I think they’ve been mistreated by the US who used them to try and get one over on an adversary in the knowledge that other people will be the ones dying if it goes poorly. That’s certainly very bad.
However you feel about the justice of the invasion, though, we’ve reached the point where even people who support the war and want Ukraine to win are defining winning as a negotiated settlement where they give up territory. If NATO is not willing to fight Russia directly (clearly they aren’t) and continuing the aid to the conflict is not even providing a reasonable way for Ukraine to retain its territory and even cheerleaders who are on the side of Ukraine’s government believe they will have to negotiate a settlement then WHY ARE WE NOT PUSHING THAT? More Ukrainians are being expected to die, against their will as you freely acknowledge, for no long term strategic purpose.
The death and destruction from this war is a human tragedy. It will be more tragic if it is prolonged for years only to end in the same way it could have within months.
Three years ago they were all also admitting that, we’ve just decided that this particular war fell out of the coconut tree.
It was an interesting but impactful choice to intersperse chapters that mainly talked about how fucking outrageous and unjust the treatment of workers in 19th century England was.
Forreal I thought it was astonishing how long these same talking points have apparently been around. Karl just owning economists 150 years ago for saying how great capitalism has been to workers while they’re living in literal squalor. Like okay I guess now we have to talk about toddlers hauling hundreds of pounds of clay uphill now. 
It really is astounding just how incapable of diplomacy the US is. It’s like they got to swing their might around unchallenged for a decade and in that time completely abandoned any notion of negotiation. It’s one of their enemies’ greatest assets, they’re playing with an opponent that feels like there aren’t any stakes to failing to convince anyone of anything.
Stop resisting Jack, the interest rates will go up until morale improves.
My understanding from the folks on r/UkraineRussiaReport is that this is a breakthrough behind 2 of 3 lines of defense, which means going further forward might be harder than wrapping up the two lines going parallel to the front. Lotta folks with the impression that whatever they do they ought to do quickly because the aid is probably going to force things to slow down again.
Yeah the optics are shit and hard to massage. You have to make it about protesting being violence and antisemitism because there’s no way to sugarcoat all the dead children in Gaza and the rolling discovery of mass graves.
Looks like it’s “only” sensitive health information at least, not like, SSNs or card information.
It’s illegal, at least in some states, to sell for human consumption. The places that do it have warnings on the bottles that they are not for human consumption. They know what they’re doing though.
Just in time for Blinken to go ask the Chinese to be nice and cooperative with us!
Where are the appendices? Neither of my versions of Volume 1 appear to have them. I found a version with an appendix on the value-form when I went searching but that’s it.
I support electric vehicles. 
But electric cars are not a realistic solution. Cars have a use case, but bikes and public transit can cover the VAST majority of people’s real transportation needs if you designed the system properly. Transportation needs to become more rationalized and efficient which means it needs to be done at scale and with an eye to moving the public, not carrying bourgeois suits around on their whims. Electric cars give people the illusion that we can solve the problem of how much waste is built into our system of transit without needing any political will or reorganization.
I don’t think they believe they’re actually sacrificing imperial interests, it’s more likely to be a miscalculation or delusion. Perhaps one helped along by AIPAC influence, but American politicians are easily convinced that the US can’t really be stopped if it tries something, and that it’s important to have a cooperative base of operations in the region. That’s being strained to some degree by Israel’s failure to cooperate right now, but so far it hasn’t actually hurt oil prices or spiraled out of control. Our foreign policy establishment seems convinced that we can just shake the entire region enough times for everyone to agree to like Israel eventually no matter what we do.
I think a realistic analysis of the situation suggests that in the long run pissing off everyone in order to do our pet projects is a huge mistake. But American foreign policy has also more or less always operated this way since the Cold War ended, none of the current generation of politicians have a realistic view of the US’ limitations. They’re all still living in the end of history. Every failure so far has been rationalized as ‘we just didn’t try as hard as we could have’ or whatever. The idea that we could actually seriously fuck up isn’t conceivable to these people.
Yeah it also completely misses the actual class interests that DO own US politicians. Even when starving and bombing Gaza is unpopular it doesn’t change because the ruling class has decided maintaining this base is necessary regardless of the human toll.
But admitting that would invalidate the 
ideology.
The only leaving he should be doing is LEAVING UKRAINE amirite?
I poked into r/politics to see what was up and there’s a bunch of libs wondering how this old guy snuck in and became the nominee somehow, and how whoever did that should be fired. It’s really weird to see the about face, I thought he was a phenomenal candidate with a sterling record last week.