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As a European I am grateful to Donald Trump for giving us the much needed kick up the backside to finally ditch the US. It's an odd move for an empire to willingly give up its vassal states but the opportunity should not be missed by us.
US is throwing in with Russia instead. So question is, will Russia be a US vassal, or the US a Russian vassal, or will the US and Russia jointly become the new Imperial Core.
I don't know but Russia seems to be getting what it wants from Trump, right now at least. The US is way less stable than Russia at the moment though and may flip again after he is out.
I think Putin is gambling that a division between Europe and the US will give him more power, comparatively. China are probably into that idea too. Europe's GDP is 1.5 times bigger than China's and 14 times bigger than Russia's though. If Europe decides to tool up, which it's saying it will then the best case scenario for Russia is that the US gets to go off and hang out with other nutcases like North Korea, Haiti and Burkina Faso and the worst case is that Russia ends up with a lot of very big new guns aimed at it by twitchy and paranoid neighbours who have a newfound passion for distracting from their economic and social failures by talking tough and finding bogeymen.
"When he is out". Haha. Mfer is going full dictator and we're screwed..
I thought you guys had a mechanism for dealing with these types of situations?
We shooould, but the virus is causing delays and it's spreading quicker than be contained.
So Israel wants you to cry for them, but not for the people of Ukraine? Hah!
Ah yes the democratic bloc of Russia, North Korea, Belarus, Eritrea, Hungary and the USA
Don’t forget Israel.
The company you keep.
There's a certain demographic of self-described "leftists" who end up being pro-Russia because they are anti-US and see Russia as the opposition to the US.
I'm curious to see if they're able to mentally reconcile a possible geopolitical future where full fash USA and Russia become allies. Are they so pro-Russia that they become pro-USA, or are they so anti-USA they finally become anti-Russia?
Or do they just stick their heads in the ground and pretend like nothing is happening because their US vs Russia worldview cannot support real life geopolitics?
Yes
I was wondering the exact same thing
If Russia and the US form a coalition they probably just stop supporting Russia no? This isn't a team sport
After years of defending Russian war crimes I don't think they'll find it all that easy to "just stop supporting Russia".
Like are they suddenly going to admit that Russia was commiting atrocities the entire time, or pretend the atrocities only started with the influence of their US ally, or just go silent on everything?
There may well be people like you describe, but I see this point of view as exaggerated more often than not. I don't know any leftists that "support" Russia, and certainly not any that think Putin is any kind of good guy. Yes, they view the US as a bigger threat to the world (with very good reason!). They also have a more nuanced view of the geopolitics and history around the war in Ukraine.
The "nuanced view of the geopolitics and history around the war in Ukraine" is usually a lot of mental gymnastics for the sole purpose of defending Russia.
lemmy.ml has a huge pro-Russia bias, for example, my recent comment accusing Russia of being a Nazi country was removed for being "bigoted", another recent comment accusing Israel of being a Nazi country using identical phrasing remained untouched.
You can't have it both ways, saying you don't support Russia while putting in lots of effort to support Russia.
Again, it's not my experience that such analysis boils down to defending Russia. You don't have to agree with an argument to understand it, and you need to understand it if you don't want to misrepresent it.
I do understand the argument, and it lays all accountability for Russia's invasion at the feet of the US, NATO, and Ukraine.
It's the equivalent of blaming Iraq for the US invasion, or blaming Hamas for Israel destroying Gaza. Make sense?
Nice to have all the piece of shit countries highlighted in one table.
BRICS countries all abstained. Not surprising as it's one of the founding members they'd putting under fire, which could doom their future
As always, Orbán can suck my cock. Fucking pain in the ass he is.
It's almost incredible but this generational upending of geopolitics really does seem to come down to one thing: the despicable orange manbaby's personal resentment and jealousy of the Ukrainian president.
But then the fact that Ukraine is dependent on the US for its survival is completely shameful for us in Europe. We should never have allowed this to happen and we need to wake up. This is all such a golden opportunity. I think, hope, Macron gets it.
Thanks for posting who voted how. I really hate articles that say "18 countries opposed" and then fail to list which countries voted which way.
so fucking pissed. so one president can come in and contradict a century of policy. why the fuck are our electorate so idiotic.
Interesting that South Korea didn't vote. And Japan voted for the resolution. I believe they usually follow along with the US's position, but I guess in this case interests diverged too much for docility.
South Korea voted for it?
Oh... yes. I just assumed that "Democratic Rep of" was South Korea. That's probably the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Yeah, South Korea's official name is just Republic of Korea. It's confusing, but then it's difficult for it not to be