Political battles and wars do not start this abruptly, thinking that anyone on the world stage would tolerate Putin waking up and taking over Crimea on a whim is either a misconception on your end or misplaced sarcasm. Crimea was invaded by russia due to the impeachement of the Viktor Yanukovych, which was illegal and overwhelmingly proven to be linked to US action. Furthermore, Russia had a naval base on the black sea that would have been reclaimed by the united states if the support of ukraine shifted to Nato following the impeachment of Yanukovych. It was a strategic necessity and a means of incentivizing ukraine to reconnect with Russia as an ally rather than attempt to side with NATO.

Russia had retreated back into it’s borders in 2014 and just like with Finland and Austria, it respected surrounding nations borders as long as they did not engage in Nato expansionism.But to add one last point, Europeans are insane to the rest of the world when they think it rational to prefer the united states to Russia… Who between Russia and the US participated in 70+ assassination attempts of foreign politicians, undermined global peace and countries’ senses of agency and ruined Serbia, Afghanistan, Georgia, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Venezuela? The last thing Russia needs is a regime change…

As far as ukrainian journalists spoke of it, was politically motivated since Yanukovych was on good terms with Putin and part of the senate wanted to westernize if they had US backing to engage martially with Russia. Instead the US gave a solid year of military support and cut it s costs when came the time.

In canada you can make a police report online in most cities, how come the US doesn t have this?

I’m just saying, americans could solve a lot of problems with a guillotine…

Oui monsieur, my bad edited it. As someone who graduated in stem, I have a very easy time understanding natural or technical or economical causes and effects but loathe it when another person in my field speaks on politics or social groups since they almost always come off as bigoted or ignorant (often both).

I ve therefore been interested in the social sciences and humanities for a while as they are a pleasure to discover. I find philosophy and critical theory to be the best guides to understanding realities that fall outside of the bounds of one s rationality and Foucault’s concepts explain politics better than anyone else (aside maybe from Deleuze and Guittari in A Thousant Plateaus).

Quotes to mean it’s what he s whispering to our ear.

I highly recommend The Archeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault, it is the magnum opus of contemporary philosophy and critical theory in terms of the phenomelogies of power.

Really helped me conceptualize politics at this moment.

“Do you believe in israel’s right to defend itself?”

Ukraine was a pawn, NATO knew russia would invade, they signed a border treaty in 2003 because russia does not want american military bases on it’s border.

Thank god for academics like jeffrey sachs, he wrote on this…:https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/nato-chief-admits-expansion-behind-russian-invasion

Zelensky was dumb enough to break the treaty and believe that NATO would commit to their cause, instead russia simply honored the treaty by dissolving ukraine’s border…

The only people that i distrust are real estate agents, horny frat boys and politicians.

What most people call “algorithms” are not algorithms, artificial intelligences have replaced math formulas to back the recommendations your phone makes to you. Welcome to techno-feudalism!

Just like the luddites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites

The queen of another country is on our currency and our economy was really the economy of our scumbag neighbor. And to top it off we re a 30 million people population occupying the second largest piece of land on earth (that we got through a genocide). That does not sound like a country, rather a strategic nightmare.

Hong kong has no moral role to play as a british crown territory or pro west territory and it has nothing to do with “'merican freedom”… Serving yourself this US hegemonic propaganda is sick, first we threw ukraine in the fire to bring a nato base closer to russia on it’s soil and millions died as a result (because russia and ukraine signed treaties over this being an act of war, cbc doesn t talk about that tho). And now we’re playing the same game with china to hold onto hong kong and taiwan as Nato serving territories?

After what the UK did to china in the opium wars (and the century of shame) and breaking the territory apart, it has more than enough historical right to claim back taiwan and hong kong.

Did Ford legalize online gambling or something? Because I (quebec…) keep guetting ads for CasinodaysJeux (french version of casinoday, a shit gambling site) which does not accept money, but being redirected to casinoday.com.

Risk; Peter Thiel guetting hard because he’s been wanting to show us his antichrist outfit.

Why liberal? Liberalism is a doctrine of personal freedoms. Leftist is probably the right word

Welcome to late stage capitalism! Market fundamentalism was always a lie, the american dream has been dead for over a century.

Racially confused quebecois believe they are native to quebec, and tend to be very xenophobic. Pair that with conservative medias complaining about migrants, postmodern globalist chaos and a crumbling economy, you get racist boomers in quebec hiking up police spendings and asking for heightened surveillance… It’s only going to get worse imo.

The risks? Supporting morons with a kippa trying to bring back Christy boy whilst waging a genocide

Building genocide weapons on a genocidal land, what a surprise!