That's why I said changing the status quo is much harder. You can, however, prevent a warmongering dictator from rising by preventing the conditions in which they rise. To know what those conditions are, you need the careful examination.
These points were brought up during the election many times, but clearly you weren't paying attention. People were begging Biden to listen and to stop the genocide, but instead he thought the winning strategy was to ignore voters because he loves supporting genocide more than winning the election. He is a power-hungry ghoul who ran for president way too late in his life in 2020 when he was already showing clear signs of mental decline and then he rewarded the democratic party who put him there by dropping out way too late in 2024 when instead he should've passed the torch over so we could've had a proper primary in 2024. Instead the democratic party scrambled to put together the Harris campaign on short notice and she was forced to continue the same rhetoric as Biden, which ultimately is what sank her campaign.
Throughout his entire career, Biden sold his soul to the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, and the banks, but for some reason, the likes of you think he's some sort of savior. I guess you were living under a rock for over a year while Biden sent 2,000 pound bombs to israel to use for genocide. Now you're blaming the left for what Biden did. Biden is the best ally Trump could've asked for.
Your assumption is that it's always been a genocidal, warring regime, and that it's just been building up the entire time. I disagree with that defeatist attitude. If Germany can be de-nazified and Japan can transform from the ruthlessness displayed during and before world war 2, then surely something similar could be done with Russia. If you think this is impossible, then what solution do you propose?
Help us to prevent it from happening again in the future and perhaps give a hint as to how to resolve the issue now. Changing the status quo is much harder than preventing it from becoming the status quo in the first place or, put another way, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Either way, it's important to learn how/why things happen if we wish to have them not happen.
We need to examine the conditions that allowed such a figure to get elected. It wasn't an instantaneous transition to putin, it took about a decade of a miserable economy where people had to sell whatever they could (including vouchers for shares in previously state enterprises they were given, which ended up being bought up by oligarchs to consolidate power) just to eat. Life actually got worse than during the USSR. Along comes putin and luckily for him, the price of oil increases while he's in power and things look like they're improving. Is it any wonder that someone like that could grab power during such a turbulent time? It's happened in the US with trump and things are a lot less dire here than they were in Russia post-USSR-collapse.
2008 is about 17 years after the collapse of the USSR. Within that time, Russia experienced an economic crisis with the push for a "free market" and actually had lower life expectancy than during the USSR. Unless you want to argue that Russia is just inherently a warmongering country, surely something could've been done to prevent this later aggression. Similar to trump, putin getting elected is a symptom of a broken system.
The same Russia struggling to take over Ukraine alone is somehow going to take over Europe? Please. While we need to beat back Russia, there is no use in exaggerated fearmongering. It does more harm than good.
So the israeli military forbids Palestinians from farming their own land and when they give them permission, they end up killing them. Most moral military in the world, right?
Software is the biggest problem, made even bigger because if Intel decides to abandon their dedicated graphics line then customers will be stuck with busted drivers. I'm hoping they keep things going to reintroduce some competition into the graphics card space. Prices are just ridiculous now, so it's great seeing the B580 performing well at $250. Such a shame Intel's board of directors seems determined to sink the company and sell it for parts.
Trying to change the subject was not invented by anyone in particular, but the US likes to slap that label onto everything that directs criticism at them. For example, the US has the highest prison population per capita but will preemptively scream about enemy countries imprisoning people with countless stories in the media. Calling out the hypocrisy is countered with accusations of "whataboutism" but that's not whataboutism, it's simply pointing out hypocrisy since it's the same subject.
One problem I see is that people feel like they have to work in absolutes or match their opinions 100% with everything within a group. How the grouping forms is not always clear, but apparently if one is associated with that grouping, they feel the need to defend everything in that grouping and attacking everything that isn't.
There is some discussion to be had in the role of the US using proxies to undermine global rivals, but that does not justify Russia invading Ukraine, nothing does. Absolutely, fuck Russia.
You mean it wasn't already? The organization was created to counter the USSR and never really drifted from that, even when the USSR fell, funnily enough.
Nice caricature, but it has nothing to do with my post. Pointing out that the US is the biggest source of imperialism doesn't mean no one else is doing bad things, but thanks for proving my point. Fuck Starbucks and Apple, by the way.
The US is the biggest source of imperialism in the world. We don't have to always follow that up with "butwhatabout" to distract from that, which is what the US media machine does by running stories all the time to manufacture consent for its own imperialism.
biden could have stopped it, but instead he actively supported it by sending billions to israel, even bypassing congress to send his support. That's how committed he was to the cause of genocide. I said nothing about trump being better, he obviously won't be, but biden's full support of genocide has nothing to do with trump other than being able to point at trump as an excuse for "moderate" support of genocide.
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That's why I said changing the status quo is much harder. You can, however, prevent a warmongering dictator from rising by preventing the conditions in which they rise. To know what those conditions are, you need the careful examination.