The US is Fanning the Flames of War with China
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That very clearly frames NATO as a good thing since otherwise the orcs would invade you.
I wouldn't call anyone an orc, but Russia is an imperialist power trying to expand its border through a military invasion, so that is always something you need to consider. I don't consider it to be a good thing to lay down and let colonizers run over you.
NATO is not good, but Putin gives reason for NATO to not disband yet.
Never mind the fact that NATO expansion was the reason for the war
Lol, no. Did it influence Putin? Sure. Did it make the decision to lie about invading and then immediately after invade like he's a helpless little puppet on strings? No.
The $1 billion question is why isn't Putin reaching out to create defensive treaties with his neighbors first. Why not a defense treaty with Ukraine?
Once you can figure that out, your worldview will start to be a lot more sane.
Late Roman empire often had demented old men as emperors who didn't actually make any decisions.
The US is not a late state empire like Rome. That's a * hits bong * "what if history is just like repeating itself over and over again man" kind of take. Not that no similarities exist.
Just list for me for how many years the US has a demented old man in charge.
I never framed NATO as a good thing, lol (reading comprehension is difficult I guess). I just pointed out that it costs the US more than it makes. Although given Putin's invasion, the capitalists of the military-industrial complex are 100% making a profit, so I guess they can thank Putin for his choice to make them lots of money.
True, the capitalists don't have homogeneous interests. You can't have an empire without an emperor - a single unchanging authoritarian leader that decides the movement for the rest of the country.
Here's where this turns into a low IQ conspiracy theory.
You take a man, whose entire life and personality are devoted to business and capitalism and profit. Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, he's in every wealthy inner circle, he even pays a ghostwriter to write him a book called "The Art of the Deal".
He gets voted into the single most powerful position in the US. He now has the single best position to enrich himself and his family, like he has literally devoted his life to doing. He talks to his inner advisors, they crunch him the numbers, and he decides he wants to pull out of NATO, because it costs the US more than it profits.
I'm a business man. That's how business works. You want to be profitable. If a deal isn't profitable, you back out. Only keep the deals that make your business money.
It's a no-brainer, if NATO was the imperial profit generating machine you claim it to be, Trump would have been all over it. Trump would have expanded NATO, expanded the borders, made more wealth. That's what Business men like Trump do. That's why Nazis, like Tankies, are anti-NATO. Nazis don't want to pay to protect other countries, Nazis want more power. Nazis would just invade a country, like Russia does, not tried to maintain an expensive treaty.
If you find yourself often agreeing with Nazis on worldview and policy, you need some self reflection.
Again, it's like you didn't read the article except the tiny bits that fit your confirmation bias. It's not saying that America is "not independent", it's not saying the oligarchs "control America". It's saying disproportionate wealth equals disproportionate power. Which should be obvious, no person should have too much wealth or too much power. That's why the US government was designed with checks and balances built in, which is not working as well as desired, but works farrr better than you see in a dictatorship like Russia.
There's no secret group controlling this big US Empire of vassal states. It's many many rich people of varying degrees of wealth (from the US or the UK or elsewhere) all fighting amongst themselves for more, and most of the time hurting the rest of us common folk in the process.
The fierce protection of LGBTQ communities is something I appreciate however.
It's not really genuine though. They lightly elevate trump above all other presidents despite his history of attacking LGBTQ rights: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/09/trumps-record-lgbtq-rights-vile-moment-took-office-kept-list/
It's just a political angle to get support from people who feel isolated away from other political movements.
Like wealthy bankers? Like the Jews?
Fine, I won't call it a conspiracy theory, but you're just a hair away from saying the exact same thing a Nazi would say.
Exactly, so who is making decisions on behalf of America? Aliens, the Jews, the Sith?
Turtles all the way down.
That seems high, according to this the cost to protect the entire trump family was $120 million:
https://time.com/4762234/congress-donald-trump-security-costs-trump-tower/
Enjoy pretending that you live in a free and independent country I guess.
I live in the US, so what are you going on about? The US doesn't rank well globally in freedom (IE SCOTUS stripping away rights provided by RvW), but what do you mean by independent?
What is the US a vassal state to aliens? Because you smell suspiciously similar to the reptilians/adrenochrome/Jews/NWO conspiracy theories.
You need to do a massive mental leap to jump from that opinion piece, to "the UK is a vassal state of the US Empire". It's like you don't even read your own sources except the tiny bits that validate your insane worldview.
The UK is not subordinate to the US. The US does not direct UK policy.
it relies on military protection from US
No, it doesn't. The UK has its own military, and it's own military-industrial complex. The UK is not at war. It's in a co-operative military alliance, so if someone like Russia came to invade, the US would assist.
can't have a sovereign and independent policy
The US does not give a shit about the UK's policy. The UK can do what it wants.
You're literally just making stuff up, this is like flat-earth level content.
UK is entirely dependent on US for military protection, that's a relationship of a vassal.
That is not what a vassal state is. Where did you get your wrong definition for a vassal state?
Its a problem across the entire aerospace industry, I saw the same thing at P&W too.
I was not at all surprised that the chickens came to roost in the 737 Max crashes. I suspect a lot of the issues come from the FAA allowing companies to cut corners for cost savings.
I do have a bit of a clue about the world, the UK is not a vassal state of "the US Empire". You've taken a goofy LARP that you're some kind of revolutionary fighter up against an evil empire so far, that you've started to think your fantasy game is real.
You literally live in a fantasy world.
If you had two choices
- Be put on your knees with your hands tied behind your back with a gun to your head, watch your wife and your daughter be raped in front of your eyes, screaming in pain and fear, crying out for you for help them, watch them be beaten and brutalized and finally executed while you are helpless
- Get some "lethal aid" from your neighborhood and defend your home in a firefight, and have a chance at defending yourself and your family even in a dangerous situation that might still leave you injured or dead
Which one are you choosing? I'm choosing #2, in a heartbeat.
I hate war, I hate violence, I own guns and I've never, ever shot them at a person. But I believe in self defense against the fascists and imperialists more than I believe in giving them what they want. And if they came from my home and family, I would be so happy to receive any assistance I could get.
Russia did this. This is Russia's fault. If this situation is somehow advantageous for the west (and it really isn't), that was Putin's doing.
And yet, causality is preserved, and there is a clear specific mathematical relationship between the two frames of reference.
So you will measure differently, but as soon as you do the math to account for your different frames of reference, you will again have the same measurements. Of course, we know there is an objective mathematical relationship between the two frames of reference, because the speed of light is constant.
I’m a little amused that in the comic both viewers are correct relative to their frame of reference. An extremely powerful concept that significantly advanced physics and about which famous people are household names.
You accidentally made the wrong point, because Einstein's breakthrough of special relativity was that the speed of light is constant regardless of reference frame.
So if two people with different frames of reference are measuring the speed of light differently, at least one of them is objectively wrong.
This is astonishingly stupid, you completely sidestepped the question. Let's assume your point about 2014 is true, that's still 23 years Russia did not form a treaty, which would have prevented the coup. That should have been the easiest, most obvious first move to counter NATO. Instead Russia is tearing itself apart trying to keep its claws dug into a little bit of Ukrainian territory.
In any scenario where you create an image of the west as some kind of empire overlord powerhouse that manipulates all global events, you make Russia and ex-Soviets look hopelessly stupid and incompetent.