FINALLY someone thought up "what are you gonna do, vote for the other guy?????"
collecting a sweet paycheck advising dems to do the same fucking shit for literally decades
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This must be a bit, but still: the Azov brigade patch literally bears a wolfsangel, and used to have a black sun on it. How can you believe this? Dudes wear nazi style Death's Head emblems all the time.
I just WONDER why all of these NATO countries have such nazi problems in their militaries? I just cannot figure that out. I sure hope the CIA has never been chummy with nazis, worked with them and helped them get into positions of power. Nato sure loves its nazis, huh...
To be honest, a Russian invasion of Germany wouldn't happen (because, why?) but I wouldn't exactly be waving Germany's flag if Russia decided that their army being full of neonazis wasn't that cool.
So
Your first paragraph is true on its own, but do you not see the structural, systemic problems with militaries like this? How the US was happy to aid far-right Ukranian war criminals in the 1940s and prop them up as lobbyists? How the Euromaidan coup was funded by the US? Not coincidental.
I can't really engage in your call for more nukes and drones though, as if that's a solution or something, very
The solution might involve an end to right-wing imperialist nations and their militaries. Where do you think you are? Yes, the hierarchical concept of these militaries does attract this sort of thing - again, see the inherent problem? These are problems that are not bugs but features of the way these states and nations work. Intentional.
nobody should support Germany if they didn't have neonazis, because they were never properly punished for the original nazis.
Plus, you're either really under-educated or being disingenuous. CIA's Operation Aerodynamic aside, the Azov brigade is indicative of the far-right government in Ukraine generally: https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/
No one has a right to join NATO.
No they didn't. It's part of the reason so many Ukrainians especially in the east and south of the country started movements to try to gain independence from the fascist Ukrainian coup government.
The reason was not safety and hundreds of thousands would not have died needlessly in a proxy war if the fascist coup government had not been installed by pro-NATO western powers. Most Ukrainians were not so stupid as to think striving to join NATO was anything but a road to war, which is what has happened.
No shit. That's why they're using Ukraine for a proxy war.
There are many reasons they (US/NATO/"the west') want to destroy Russia as it is. They want another comprador government in Russia that is subservient to their interests, not an independent and powerful state that could become an economic competitor (or at least a major component of an economically competitive bloc). They want to exploit Russia (much as they did after the fall of the Soviet Union) by privatizing everything and selling it off for a pittance to American bourgeoisie, just as they have done and are right now doing to Ukraine. Another way of phrasing that last point would be to say they want unfettered access to Russia's resources (natural resources, labor, etc.) on their terms, not in terms of the national interest of Russians. They want to want to prevent a multipolar world and maintain their global hegemony. They want a government in Russia they control to put further pressure on China. They want to prevent Europe from buying its energy from Russia so that Europe is entirely dependent on the US for Europe's continued existence. That last one they have already achieved by destroying the Nordstream pipeline, just as Biden promised he would.
Everything you've said here is a point against your position (of Russia and the people of Donbas being the aggressors), not for it. First of all, "always" should be replaced with "since 2014." Think about what you're saying, "the rebels sided with 'the aggressors' even before 'the aggressors' did their 'aggression'!" If some kid on a playground, kid 1, starts beating the shit out of a smaller kid, kid2, and a third one, kid3 steps in and punches kid1 to stop him from killing kid2, would you say "kid2 always sided with the aggressive kid3"? If so, you're a fucking idiot. I guess the people of the Donbas should have just allowed neo-nazis to ethnically cleanse them? They should have just been ok with scores of union members being burned alive? They should have accepted laws that banned their language and made them (at best) second class citizens? And Russia stepping in on their behalf makes Russia the aggressors, not the fascist coup government waging an ethnic cleansing campaign?
lmao yes