NYT: “How long will the White House continue to allow the CCP’s malicious market interference to unfairly raise gas prices on American families?”

they want to be rid of the people, they’re worried about losing the real estate.

That was never the stated objective

Obviously you can’t use official Russian government statements as evidence of Russia’s intent, because that would be Russian propaganda. The only authoritative reputable sources for Russia’s intent are privately owned US media outlets citing anonymous US state department officials.

I’m afraid any write-in candidate is a vote for Trump. I don’t like it, but that’s just how our Democracy™ works

After much soul-searching, I’ve finally come to the decision that I must vote for Joe Biden as the only candidate capable of defeating fascism and preserving Democracy in November. I didn’t want to do this, but I’ve been convinced that there’s simply no alternative.

You don’t actually owe it to the other imperial superlaser technicians to continue working on the death star if you have the opportunity to leave before it gets blown up

Though even if he said checking he would be wrong.

Consider the last time Biden played chess. Now consider the last time Biden played chess against someone whose continued employment didn’t depend on letting Biden win.

Democracy is when god decides who will be president, who will be a billionaire, and who will die on the streets after medical bankruptcy

Why? IDK

That much is clear

He doesn’t need to convince “the Ukrainian people”: they don’t have a say in their government or their participation in the war. He’d need to convince the Nazis running the military, and the imperial oligarchs who just bought up the country’s assets. Both would sooner see him hanged in the street than allow peaceful coexistence.

The United States government is admitting to deliberately promoting the spread of COVID-19.

Are they not still sending combat troops to Ukraine?

I figure that at least some of the U.S. government/bourgeoisie would surrender, at least enough to spare their own lives

Amerikkkan imperialists must have a degree of self-preservation to not want to risk the entire globe when they could scatter away and fight later

There’s no excuse for this level of wishful thinking about global nuclear war. The United States is not going to launch a limited nuclear strike against another nuclear power and then surrender in the hopes that its leadership will be left alive. Nobody on earth would accept a surrender that left those people alive after a nuclear first strike. If the US launches on another nuclear power, the US only survives by completely obliterating every other non-occupied nuclear power before they have a chance to respond. If the US does a nuclear first strike without completely disabling any potential response, every other non-occupied nuclear power in the world would be obligated to immediately unload everything they have on the US. To do anything less would leave a country with no credible deterrent to US attack, and the US would be obligated to exploit that vulnerability to eliminate the threat to its hegemony. A nuclear exchange will either end in the total destruction of the United States, or total US world domination. Either option means uncountable dead and complete global economic and environmental collapse no matter who rules the wasteland. For average people that amounts to quick death or slow death. An improvement in anybody’s current living conditions would not be in the cards.

The personal sense of self-preservation in individual members of the national bourgeoisie or congressional middle men doesn’t matter at all if one senile dipshit with one foot in the grave pushes the button. It doesn’t even matter what a majority of the US ruling class thinks if a few true believers in the right positions with enough hubris and self-delusion decide to gamble that the benefits of winning outweigh the likelihood of retaliation. It’s all or nothing once the first nuke flies. There can be no reconsideration or negotiation after that threshold is crossed. It’s either live by killing the enemy completely, or die taking them with you.

I can’t speak for the Global North, but I find it hard to believe that those launching nuclear weapons would just shoot them everywhere all over the place at civilians, that would be ridiculously stupid, even in an extreme scenario, all but signing the death warrant of the human species, and targeting civilian and food storehouses and infrastructure would be worse than pointless, it would be stupid.

I don’t know what about the history of the United States government would lead you to believe that they wouldn’t prefer total nuclear planetary annihilation to military defeat. “We’re taking it all with us when we go” has been the underlying premise of US policy on climate, economy, and geopolitics for my entire life. The US is not going to discover restraint after they’ve started firing nukes.

They’ll refuse to engage with it just like they did when Comey and Mueller consistently failed to give them the answers they wanted. Most Democrats still believe in their hearts that the Steele dossier is real, and they’d rather annihilate the planet in nuclear fire than admit that they’ve spent the last decade in a self-defeating delusion.

“making unfounded claims” is a charitable way of describing deliberately lying to manufacture consent for an imperial war of aggression

um, excuse me, Japan and Australia are part of “The West”, actually.

It’s wild to me that people can still take claims of “Russian/Chinese/Korean cyber-agression” seriously when Five Eyes exists, and the US is still trying to kill or imprison people that revealed the extent to which they’re spying on their own citizens to circumvent each others domestic laws. I don’t know that a given piece of Chinese or Russian technology isn’t spying on me, but I know with absolute certainty that every piece of US technology going back at least 20 years is spying on me and giving that data straight to the people most likely to kill or incarcerate me.

It’s really unfair of Russia to suggest Ukraine might have done a terrorist attack just because of all the other terrorist attacks Ukraine has been doing with CIA support for the last decade