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I will copy paste this comment from Hexbear that explains how we reached that situation, because I believe it will be useful here for context:

The following three parts are absolutely crucial toward understanding the ongoing war in Ukraine from a materialist and historical standpoint:

One, the Maidan Coup happened in 2013 because the former president Yanukovych wanted to postpone signing the EU association trade agreement, which was an economic warfare against both Ukraine and Russia. First, it required that Ukraine take on IMF loans that required them to cut social spending and education. Second, it would allow European goods to flood Russian market due to the existing tariff-free agreement between Ukraine and Russia, without allowing Russia to do so in reverse. Putin did NOT oppose to Ukraine signing the deal, he offered a tripartite meeting to discuss this tariff issue, but the EU refused. Yanukovych did not want to lose the trade revenue with Russia, so he said he needed more time to talk this out with Russia - but it was already too late, merely postponing was enough to trigger the ultranationalists/fascists to launch a coup.

Second, the Donbass separatists rebelled because immediately after the coup, one of the first things the coup regime did was to initiate a ban on Russian language to lash out against ethnic Russians. Russia was forced into the conflict, because there would have been a massacre if the civil war was to allow the military to crush the resistance in Donbass.

Third, the Minsk agreements showed that Russia was absolutely willing to return Donbass (but not Crimea for obvious reasons) to Ukraine, although Ukraine has to give the Donbass local governments more autonomy to protect their local cultures (so that someone from Kyiv can’t just simply impose a national ban on language or culture without considering the local populations). They waited 8 years for Ukraine to start implementing the protocol, but instead what they saw was NATO openly arming Ukraine for 8 years - this showed that Ukraine wanted to take back Donbass and Crimea by military force, and the only reason for that is quite simply that they wanted to ethnically cleanse the Russian culture without having to adhere to the Minsk agreements. Both Merkel and Hollande, guarantors of Minsk II, have admitted publicly in 2022 that Minsk was simply to buy time for Ukraine to militarize, proving Russia’s intuition correct.

The war in Ukraine was inevitable. Russia still did the last ditch effort in 2021 to call for a security meeting with NATO, but to no avail. Under the new Biden presidency, Zelensky had been emboldened to talk about Ukraine joining NATO and rearming with nuclear weapons, prompting the invasion from Russia in February 2022. The rest is history.

Well, European "democracies" built their wealth by exploiting those countries through colonisation, coups, and political assassination. On the other hand, Russian and Chinese "dictatures" respectively built their wealth through the extraction of their own resources, and by building their own productive force.

Theoritically, it should work better for them. Chinese loans are already working better than IMF ones so it's looking good so far.

The USA literally has a military base in the Philippines, and the EU has never done anything about it.

Then come and beat our asses. But rest assured there is no way Macron, this genocidal dictator piece of shit, would ever try to appease tensions with a country that takes care of their population instead of shooting up every protests as he does.

How alternatively: imagine being so addicted to social media, that you want a system to get a high score.

It's crazy how some people can have such strong opinions about this conflict while being so uninformed at the same time.

It did not get France to descend into authoritarianism.

When your policies are so unpopular that it comes to that level of rioting, you have two options:

1. You dissolve the National Assembly and organise new elections. If your party loses, you step down from the presidency.
2. You increase the budget of the police and the military, create additional surveillance laws, criminalise actions you feel are a danger to your ability to hold power, you ban environmentalist groups.

A democratic government would go for the first option. Macron has always been authoritarian.

Please don't reopen the camps.

Isn't Kissinger a war criminal? Why is he meeting with foreign leaders?

China deradicalisation bad

Murican torture good

Thank you mister privacy chief person. But we, in France, only take advice from our oligarchs. (and US consulting firms)

Maybe he was trying to start a diplomatic incident Tiktok trend.

There are people who are hungry in the fucking USA. School kids literally can't eat lunch.

I just watched this documentary by a Korean American where you can find some information about it in the context of Korea. He interviews a South Korean lawyer who specializes in the legal defense on North Koreans, as well as a couple North Korean now living in the south.

You can also watch this video that talks more widely about the red scare and military actions against socialist countries. There are sources in the video description if you are interested.

so toothless that we are on their major importer list even though they’ve had decades to work without the USA.

Right here my dude.

Leave it to a lemmygrad user to twist what was stated to a denial off an embargo.

"Your account is on an instance that I don't like, so you must be arguing in bad faith"

Always great to have a conversation with people who will reach for the silliest reason to not address the point being made. I know you have seen there was a link in my comment.

I can't believe there are actual Cuban embargo deniers now. The world has gone completely crazy.

The embargo is real and it's inhumane.

Stealing tech is a good thing for everyone. What's the point of every country having to reinventing the wheel? Patents on tech and medicines are a crime against humanity.

pls no, I don't want a free holiday at Guantanamo

She scammed rich investors AND poor consumers. And most importantly, she has put the lives of many people in danger by knowingly providing them with erroneous medical information.

It doesn't matter to me the reason she's going to jail, I just want her to stay there for a very long time because she's dangerous and I don't believe this kind of people can be reabilitated.