includes a translation of Putin’s entire speech from yesterday Jun 14

    • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.net
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      He mentions Europe “plunged into chaos by migration” and may have a few other chuddy asides, but everything he actually focuses on is good and important.

      Our legitimate questions were answered with excuses, claiming that no one was planning to attack Russia and that NATO expansion was not directed against Russia. Promises made to the Soviet Union and then to Russia in the late '80s and early '90s about not including new members into the bloc were conveniently forgotten. If remembered at all, it was mockingly said that these assurances were verbal and thus non-binding.

      We have consistently, in the 90s and later, pointed out the errors of the course chosen by Western elites, not just criticized and warned but proposed alternatives, constructive solutions, emphasized the importance of developing a mechanism for European and global security that would satisfy everyone – I want to emphasize, everyone.

      . . .

      Sometimes it seems that ruling European politicians and eurobureaucrats are more afraid of falling out of favor with Washington than losing the trust of their own people, their own citizens. Recent elections to the European Parliament also show this. European politicians swallow humiliation, rudeness, and scandals involving surveillance of European leaders, while the US simply uses them for its own interests . . .

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      I’m only halfway through but at one point he calls the western elites “liberal-globalist” which was a little strange to me

      As for the United States itself, the ongoing attempts by the liberal-globalist elites ruling there today to spread their ideology worldwide by any means, to maintain their imperial status, their dominance, only further exhaust the country, lead it to degradation, and directly contradict the true interests of the American people.

        • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          I feel like we’ll have a field day of possible struggle sessions with the terms over here (to me, it feels dirty; a bit of page torn from “the Protocols of Zion”)

          I’d prefer to say “Western Capital and its compradors”

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                Putin is not a nazi nor is it anything weird about calling them Globalist.

                The last 2 years has shown us that the pro globalist sides are defending actual Nazis

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                  There’s definitely something weird about a guy whose base is very nationalistic (and not in the national liberation sense) positioning himself in opposition to “liberal globalism” when you and I know perfectly well that ‘liberal’ in that phrase can perfectly mean the f slur, and ‘globalism’ means NATO just as much as it means immigrants. Putin has sold this war domestically as a fight against western decadence, as though they’re fighting a morally indecent society.

                  I’m not saying Putin is wrong to defend against NATO expansionism though, just to be clear, but you don’t have to hand it to him.

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                It obviously isn’t, seen by the widespread usage of the term across the political spectrum

                The attempted rebranding of globalist into jew is a very recent fringe phenomena. Globalism has been the explicitly stated ideology of Liberals for decades, they self-proclaim as such

                • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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                  I repeat, show me anti-globalist leftist lit pre-2016, I’ve never heard the term used leftistly. It was alex jones fodder for decades, not sure why we should use it instead of imperialism/liberalism.

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                  We should start using swastikas too, since those were used before Nazis.

                  I’ve literally never heard the word globalist before fascists started using it, so it can’t have been that common.

                • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                  How is liberal globalist or elites specific? Anyone can use it for their goal

                  But railing against Industrial, Landlording, and Finance Capitalists, along with compradors, settler-capitalists, semi-feudal lords, and the like… that’s something they can’t steal, -----!

                  They can steal anti-western… but they can never steal those terms specifically…

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      Getting “absolutely tbagged in real time” is when you slowly take more and more of your enemies land while they force retirees to charge into your artillery fire in “counteroffensives” that are completely unsuccessful in taking back that land, right?

      What is it like being this delusional?

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          Lmfao a honey badger is trashing a grizzly and all y’all can do is praise the bear’s strength because you haven’t seen a w in decades

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            500,000 Ukrainian losses to 40,000 Russian losses

            10:1 artillery shell advantage for Russia

            Russia has air superiority and freely bombs the other side with FABs. Ukraine has no response.

            Russia pushing and advancing on all fronts

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              Eh, i feel like we cant throw numbers of casualties around considering there is just no way of knowing the real figures. Although i feel the west certainly isnt truthfull about it, russia isnt either.

              Just know that for libs like the one you are responding to, there cant be enough blood spilled on the altar of nato and western imperialism. Pretty sure that fucker is willing to sacrifice an entire nation of people for his peaceful ideals

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                Was the seizure of Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Mariupol all lies?

                Is it a lie that the Ukrainian counteroffensive only took 2 minor villages which have since both been lost? That was an entire year+ worth of western prep and build up.

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                  500k vs 40k?

                  Yeah you’re delirious lmfao unless you’re also stupid and count civilian deaths and Russian terrorism as kills but whatever helps your propaganda go down smooth

          • Flaps [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            I’m sure the young and old Ukrainians who are getting dragged off the street into trenches only to be obliterated by artillery are grateful for your service repeating nato propaganda so even more of them can be dragged into said trench.

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Go back to your fantasy about hoards of orcs being slaughtered by the noble innocent hobbits while the rest of us discuss reality

      Oh wait, that’s how you see reality because that’s how fucking deranged you are