Well to be fair changing the approach to land and housing will absolutely cause crashing their entire renter economy to the ground, but still, they are more stuck in and delusional than even the Russian aristocrats in beginning of XX century.
Disagree. While they did achieved lot of points especially with EU, they really hoped for Russia to collapse or at least plunge into crisis which will force it to retreat, regime change and comply with US imperialism (that's why Ukraine was never planned to militarily win, they just had to stand for a time and that's why the initial loss of much territory was irrelevant to US).
It's not the 4D chess, US really fucked it big time with consequences mounting, and it's not really surprising considering their plan makers isn't what they used to be during cold war.
I feel the ultimate goal was really China - using the martyred Ukraine as a call to arms to “save Taiwan”, as it were (the news painting Russia as villainous made a big deal of effort trying to tie China to everything Russia did in the war, and comparing the situation in Ukraine to the situation with Taiwan).
Yes, the ultimate target was China, but not like this. More directly, the most dangerous thing for US is either EU-Russia or Russia-China scenario. Neutralising Russia would do away with both, put US in much stronger position against China and ensure continuation of US hegemony for forseeable future. So while they succeeded in breaking up the EU-Russia closing and severly delayed EU-China, they pushed Russia closest to China they were since the Sino-Soviet split.
Liberals: Stand on the exact same positions for 160 years, rules most of world directly or by proxy, destroy everyone who tried to change that status quo
I read the article about strikes on Yemen in Polish media yesterday and entire article was just repeating the words "terrorism", "piracy" and "Iran-backed" ad nauseam, while not mentioning anything else, like the Ansar Allah stance for example. It was just that the evil Iran, for the sake of pure evil, employ the Houthis to indiscrimiately attack the good and completely innocent "international community" and US goes to the rescue of evertyhing that is good and right. They also straight up lie about Houthis being just a terror group rebels controlling small part of the country.
And note what Poland did after that incident - shit got too real, so instead of uncritically repeating UA and US propaganda like usual, they called highest tier meeting with president and after few hours announced that they don't believe it was Russian attack.
That was by the way posted by the most veteran of lemmy libs pingveno, who then proceed to show that his reading comprehension somhow went even worse since the reddit invasion, and who also straight up posted this gem
and promptly got 3 day ban for tokenizing Jews (no nazis under Jewish president etc.) in other post.
Well to be fair changing the approach to land and housing will absolutely cause crashing their entire renter economy to the ground, but still, they are more stuck in and delusional than even the Russian aristocrats in beginning of XX century.