Krause [he/him] @ Krause @lemmygrad.ml

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invaded without provocation

LOL

Here's two little things that happened literally just days before Russia decided to invade:

Ceasefire violations against the DPR and LPR:

Zelensky threatening to pull out of the non-proliferation treaty and acquire nuclear weapons: https://uawire.org/zelensky-ukraine-may-reconsider-its-nuclear-status

Solution: dump more money into the war, no peace talks with Russia, just keep dumping all the equipment reserves so that the stock line goes up!

Deliver the F-16s and when that fails to beat Russia just like every promised wunderwaffe has just make up a new one!

this war will only end with Putin thuroughly defeated

Do you really believe that? After 3 months of this pathetic counteroffensive with nothing to show do you honestly still believe that Ukraine will turn things around with the power of friendship?

It’s always a weird flavor, too. Like “I’m communist but only if I get all the wealth. Also I hate minorities but love the LGBT.”

Can you point to a single comment that said this? Doesn't even need to be from Hexbear or Lemmygrad, just in general.

Did you know that China is responsible for 75% of the global poverty reduction over the last 40 years?

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. At China’s current national poverty line, the number of poor fell by 770 million over the same period.

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

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/e9a5bc3c-718d-57d8-9558-ce325407f737/content

Not an option the Ukrainian gov will accept

Losers don't get to dictate rules, the negotiations will be between Russia and US/NATO, it doesn't matter what the client state thinks.

The problem is that Ukraine is given enough not to lose, but not enough to win.

The problem is that Ukraine is given what the West can afford to give, they haven't got the industry to fight Russia's war machine in a war of attrition anymore after deindustrialization and the shift to neoliberal policies. Sucks to suck, shouldn't have shipped manufacturing to China to crush their domestic labor movement 😄

Ukraine violated the ceasefire and attacked the DPR and LPR days before the invasion happened:

landlords

Fun fact: Cuba developed 5 vaccines while the US was still doing covid denialism! https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/01/1056952488/a-small-island-nation-has-cooked-up-not-1-not-2-but-5-covid-vaccines-its-cuba

Liberalism truly is a cancer, something that Cuba also has a vaccine used to treat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CimaVax-EGF

not nitter but https://twstalker.com works, same URL format as twitter/nitter

https://twstalker.com/chaoticcatpics

https://twstalker.com/chaoticcatpics/status/1692255016835269032

Out of luck, Lemmy is not your hasbara echo chamber, go back to https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ if you want that.

You mean when China and other countries have been fudging the numbers on their supposed GDP

The closer China gets to America's nominal GDP the more I see this delusion spread around. No, unlike what YouTube clickbait tells you, the IMF, World Bank and United Nations are not all conspiring together to artificially inflate China's GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)#Table

It’s biggest industry’s is house building

Bullshit, it's 52.8% services, 39.9% industry and 7.3% agriculture: https://www.statista.com/statistics/270325/distribution-of-gross-domestic-product-gdp-across-economic-sectors-in-china/

it’s just been building fake cities

Another bullshit talking point: 2018 Forbes - Ghost Towns Or Boomtowns? What New Cities Really Become

Today, China’s so-called ghost cities that were so prevalently showcased in 2013 and 2014 are no longer global intrigues. They have filled up to the point of being functioning, normal cities -- ex-ghost cities are rarely news.

just a dismissal

Sorry, that would be an Appeal to the stone fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

The point of that comment is that Liberals support whatever war the U.S. currently wages while at the same time pretending to be anti-war by condemning the “past wars” (the US still occupies a lot of the places they went to war with) because this time it’ll be different!

I fail to see how arming neo-Nazis and putting in Ukraine will play out any differently than arming religious fundamentalists did in the Middle East, every time I ask this I either get called a Russian troll or genocide apologist.

It means they peddle far-left conspiracy theories like Palestinian children needing water and food to survive which is something that Israeli scientists have debunked

Nobody here is denying what U.S. did in the past

Which is the issue with Liberals really, you come around to willing to condem what the U.S. does after it’s decades in the past and there’s no possible way to revert any of the damage, while it’s contemporary you’ll justify everything in the name of spreading/protecting democracy, fighting terrorism, standing up to autocrats, etc.

Some people still justify bombing Yugoslavia and invading Iraq to this day too so i don’t even know if that first part is really true.

This is such old news

It’s from August 16

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oh…

"What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost."

😭

So the CIA interviewed a single anonymous person who probably doesn't even exist. Cool journalism!