yogthos

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

It's simpler than that I suspect. Unlike children in Gaza, he sees US soldiers as being human.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Old enough to remember how Kiby was crying crocodile tears at the podium when the war in Ukraine started. Now he's busy tirelessly defending Israeli atrocities with not a tear to shed for the victims. This is the famous rules based world order on full display.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Nah, I'm pretty sure people in China are feeling pretty good about their country's development:

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world's total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China%E2%80%99s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&locations=CN&start=2008

By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/asia/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Yeah that's a good point, there's plenty tax evasion the oligarchs can do domestically.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

and then you have the liberals claiming to be the left while pretending we're not living in a class society 🤡

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

🤣

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

After two years, it's pretty clear that the west is not capable of doing anything of the sort. All the west managed to achieve was to ensure that hundreds of thousands of people died, and that Ukraine lost large parts of its territory in the process. We now have admissions from Ukrainian negotiators that a peace deal was close to being reached last March before the west sabotaged it.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

It's a democracy for the capital owning class.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

The actual truth is that it's NATO that's been constantly expanding towards Russia. It's also NATO that's been invading and destroying countries since the end of USSR. Syria, Libya, and Yugoslavia being some prominent examples.

Meanwhile, Russia tried to resolve this situation diplomatically since 2008 with Minsk agreements that western leaders now openly admit were a delaying tactic by the west.

Finally, section IX of Ukraine’s 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty states the following:

The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs and adheres to three nuclear free principles: to accept, to produce and to purchase no nuclear weapons.

The whole legal basis for the existence of state of Ukraine is predicated on Ukraine staying neutral and not joining military blocs. Ukraine broke the very basis of this agreement when it tried to join NATO.

Now, thanks to western "help", Ukraine will lose far more territory than it would have if the deal was done last year, and it may even cease to exist as a state. I can't wait for you to explain how this actually helps people of Ukraine.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

NATO is an aggressive alliance that has invaded and destroyed numerous countries. The fact that you keep pretending that it's a defensive alliance just shows how utterly dishonest you are.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

False equivalence.

It's not.

Because Russia attacked them.

No, Ukraine has been engaged in atrocities in Donbas since 2014 as even western media reported at the time.

It is in fact the opposite. No neutral country stays that way for long when Russia wants it’s territory.

I see you have problems with reading comprehension.

If the West had not helped, there would be no Ukraine either. We would be condemning them to a decade of guerilla warfare and oppression. Emboldened by his victory, Putin would look further west.

If the west didn't run a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government then there would've been no troubles in Ukraine. Period.

Ukrainians now fight Russia, both sides are getting exhausted and it all depends on what help Ukraine gets. Your magical peace treaty would just mean Russia trying this again in 5 years or less.

That's complete and utter nonsense, and even western media now admits this.

You could have used the same arguments to make peace with the Nazis in 1941 and the world would only be worse for it.

Now that's what actual false equivalence looks like.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

Russian propaganda talking point.

Ah yes, Russian propaganda point as reported by CNN back in 2014 https://twitter.com/paulius60/status/1611148483859255296

There’s even an hour long documentary from France on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN68OfFKaWs

Pretending this just didn't happen is the height of intellectual dishonesty.

Euromaidan was not a coup.

Yes, it was and there's overwhelming evidence for it.

Cite sources for the first point and military strategy analysts for the second.

Are you just incapable of using google, I guess that would explain why you believe in nonsense. Here you go. First of all Russian economy is now rapidly growing while the west is going into a recession. This is not a country that's showing any signs of being exhausted:

• https://www.newsweek.com/how-russia-won-sanctions-war-west-opinion-1861645
• https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russias-q3-gdp-growth-confirmed-55-rosstat-2023-12-13/
• https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russian-factory-activity-expands-fastest-pace-seven-years-dec-pmi-2023-12-29/

and here's some recent mainstream media reporting on the state of the war for you to chew on

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war.html
• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/time-diplomacy-ukraine-italys-defence-minister-says-2024-01-10/
• https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/dans-l-est-de-l-ukraine-l-angoisse-d-une-debacle-05-01-2024-2549049_24.php
• https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/27/ukrainian-soldiers-trained-abroad-express-discontent-i-repeatedly-told-them-nato-manuals-didn-t-apply_6140349_4.html
• https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ukraine-krieg-kiews-problem-mit-den-deutschen-pannen-panzern-a-cd9421ae-4a96-4d4f-983a-6205a063ae15
• https://archive.is/8FXrT#selection-391.0-391.73
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/27/russia-electronic-warfare-turn-tide-war-ukraine/
• https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/europe/ukraine-war-victory-hopes-dim-intl/index.html
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-russia-congress-europe-1.7067232

and here's some analysis from military strategists for you

• https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/whats-ahead-war-ukraine
• https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukraine
• https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russias-artillery-war-ukraine-challenges-and-innovations

Russia will win this war, and the only thing the west has achieved was to help destroy Ukraine by sabotaging negotiations in 2022.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

Share a source for NATO invading Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, is that what you're asking there little buddy?

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

No, I'm saying that anybody can type in words NATO and Yugoslavia or NATO and Libya into Google and see that you're a liar.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

Do you perhaps make bad faith arguments when you have nothing of value to add to the discussion?

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

🤡

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

Russian economy is growing while the west is going into a recession. Russian factory activity grows at fastest pace in over six years, meanwhile while US manufacturing activity shrinks the most in three years.. UK now can't even make steel from raw materials.

Yes, people still bleat about a weaker Russia. 🤡

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

Here's an idea go sign up as a volunteer in Ukraine and fight yourself instead of cheering on for other people to die for you, you disgusting sack of shit.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

Are you perhaps a troll?

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

The fact that the west was deeply involved in the coup is well documented even in western media

• https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-credible-evidence-that-Ukraines-2014-revolution-was-due-to-a-CIA-coup (https://archive.ph/BAxYc)
• https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/evidence-of-us-backed-coup-in-kiev/

The foundations of my beliefs are that the west saw itself as the winner of the cold war after USSR dissolved, and decided to renege on all the promises that were made in the 90s. This created increasing tensions with Russia, and eventually led to the war we're seeing play out in Ukraine. This is a proxy war between NATO and Russia, and it's following the script that was outlined by RAND.

The west made a huge miscalculation thinking that it could defeat Russia militarily and economically, and now the whole thing is starting to backfire. NATO is finding that it lacks the industrial base to sustain the conflict. Russia managed to reroute its trade away from the west, which caused immeasurable economic damage to Europe. The world outside the G7 has been increasingly aligning towards Russia and China and away from the west. This proxy war is heralding the end of the unipolar moment that US enjoyed and ushering in multipolarity.

I have been using Google for long enough to know that it often shows us what we want to see, not that which is most likely to be correct. :)

Have you considered that this might be why you still think that Ukraine is winning despite all the evidence to the contrary?

Regarding Russian economic data you seem to be flaunting, Russia has made it hard for outside sources to verify any of it.

Every mainstream western outlet, including the IMF, agrees that Russian economy is growing. No serious economists dispute this.

You seem to derive a lot of your opinions from mearsheimer.substack.com source but the sources the author uses to prove your points often come from rt.com which is like, the worst source for this discussion.

Mearsheimer is just one example, and he is a preeminent political scientist in the US. The reality is that there is propaganda in the west just like there is in Russia, and western media often omits covering things that RT covers. Simply dismissing information based on the source is frankly absurd.

Incidentally, Mearsheimer gave an entire lecture back in 2014 predicting the events in Ukraine that are currently unfolding, seems to me that he might know what he's talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

I will, however, refrain from posting on lemmy.ml in the future, because I can see that you are a mod of several communities on this instance and your overall conduct in this post has been rather childish and disrespectful. I feel like mods should hold themselves to a higher standard.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

Ghost cities was just western propaganda that only the people with the smoothest of brains believe https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-01/chinese-ghost-cities-2021-binhai-zhengdong-new-districts-fill-up

yogthos OP , vor 5 Monaten

😄

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

Companies compete with one another, and that means the conditions of employment tend to be comparable from one employer to another. What the employees get is largely superficial choice, similar to how you get 50 brands of chips that are all basically the same. That's capitalist relations in a nutshell.

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

Germans 🤝 genocide

yogthos , vor 5 Monaten

Pretty on point, given what the burger empire is doing in the Middle East right now.

yogthos , vor 6 Monaten

It's not even remotely comparable. Let's take USSR as an example. Nobody worried about being fired and ending up on the street or about being able to retire in dignity. Everyone enjoyed over 20 days vacation, guaranteed work, and retirement by 60 for men, 55 for women. You had to work, but you basically had to do the bare minimum, and shit like overtime was basically unheard of. It's hard to describe how much stress is removed from people's lives when they don't constantly have to worry whether they're gonna be able to afford basic necessities of life.

yogthos OP , vor 8 Monaten

Socialist phase where means of production are owned by the workers, and then communism.

yogthos , vor 9 Monaten

Stay mad

yogthos , vor 10 Monaten

LMAO what a loser