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So you know I'm not a "Russia Lover" then, making the accusation even more deranged.

I mean, supporting someone because you like their policies is a fine reason, but that is very much not the reason you gave. Also, can you not see how deranged it is to scream "RUSSIA LOVER!!!!!!!" at anyone who disagrees with you in a conversation about Canadian politics when they never even mentioned Russia?

Love supporting bad politicians with bad policies just because I imagine it will make foreigners and people I don't like mad.

What a terrible reason.

Seems like you're just coming from a position of pure western chauvinism, starting with the premise that the West is the 'good guys' and their enemies are the 'bad guys' and working backwards from it. That's the only way you could arrive at this idea that there's some binary "democrat/not democrat" standard. In truth its not really clear how you could say that China is any less democratic than the USA, let alone "not a democrat country" (implying the USA is).

Even more clearly chauvinistic is your third bullet point. How in the world are you determining which countries are "well intentioned?" Is Israel will intentioned? Is Saudi Arabia? Is the USA? How are you determining that China and the many African countries it's friends with are not "well intentioned"? Seems like you're just appealing to orientalist stereotypes about non Westerners being conniving and duplicitous.

I can understand concerns over point #2 here, but #1 and #3 seem wild to me.

Seems fairly arrogant for you to declare that these positions are 'wild' and then expect other people to explain why they're not. Seems like you should be able to justify why those positions are "wild", because they seem perfectly reasonable to me.

Lol. Keep digging man.

K. Not sure what your point is.

Or keep scratching your head about why your getting downvotes and convincing nobody.

Amazing, no notes.

The majority isn't American, mate.

Ok, so you're a massive hypocrite.

now is perfectly able to declare independence if the population so wishes -the falklands just, shockingly, overall benefit from being a part of a larger and richer national entity.

Hmm, very interesting. Now let's hear your opinion on Crimea and Donbas.

They're points perfectly clear; it's right there in their first sentence. You're just being deliberately obtuse.

Al Jazeera has a stronger bias than most

How exactly are you measuring bias "strongness".

but it definitely takes more scrutiny than say DW news.

Why? How did you determine this?

They hurt Putin personally so much that he went and bought an entire Presidential campaign.

Good lord, western liberals really are deeply unserious people.

Using academic terms like the Global South doesn’t instantly make you smart or right.

Nobody ever said it did; you're just trying to use the fact that they know what they're talking about to discredit them.

geographically

Lol, this is just being deliberately obtuse. Next you're going to be arguing that Australia isn't part of the West

or as in Ukraine much worse

Ok, now you're just straight up denying history

Yes. And you agree that Valmond's attempt to make it seem like the USA is any better than Russia in this regard is nonsense.

There will likely be an attempt to remove Netanyahu before the US elections in November.

Want to bet on it?

The USA is a brutal pseudo-democracy that regularly invades sovereign countries, so yes, it is the same.

If your government starts a war you have to pay the price.

Hey look at that, it's Bin Laden's moral justification for 9/11

Though it doesn't really apply here, because for you to use the whole "Palestine started it so Israel is just defending themselves by genocideing the civilian population" you have to acknowledge that Palestine is a sovereign country. And if that's the case, then what Israel has been doing to it for decades - blockading, cutting of food and water, violating it's borders, killing it's people, bombing it, forcing it's people to carry ID cards, etc - meet the definition of acts of war many times over (as well as being war crimes) which means Palestine is completely justified in defending itself, including - by the standards you've set - by killing Israeli civilians.