Donjazet2: I see that this thread is full of hypocritical Russian shills.
People who are sooo rabidly "anti-west" but will hurriedly rush to these same western countries because these countries reward hardwork and efforts regardless of where one is from.
And the same hypocrital pro-russian fools will support the authoritarian dictatorship in china and Russia because they HATE US but would never wish their own countries had such dictatorship.
You enjoy democracy (or quasi-democracy) in Nigeria but support foreign dictators who suppress media criticism and the rights of their citizens.
Sit your hypocritical asses down.
Someone once asked on this thread, "why will a black man support the west"?
Well, because of 2 reasons, one; the west presenting itself as an open society for every single person on earth. US Congress has seen people of 54 different nationalities represent the American people. People from all the continents of the world have been represented in the US Congress. That sounds to me like a pretty fucking_open society.
Likewise Britain, France, Germany all having people of multiple nationalities being central to their government at highest levels.
But then, I look at Russia and china who you black fools want to foolishly root for and I see no opportunity for any black person. I use Obama as an example, his father, an absolute nobody from an average African country, emigrating to the land of opportunity and within a lifetime seeing his son become the president of the most powerful country on earth. What of Melanie trump, a poor immigrant from a poor eastern European country becoming the first lady of the US.
2. The west has a capacity to look inwards and criticize themselves and perhaps take corrective action For instance, we all like to criticize the US invasion of Iraq. Well, guess what, even the US presidents themselves criticize their own decisions. The invasion of Iraq was something that both Obama and trump have criticized their own country for having done. They all recognized it's a mistake. Let's talk about American media. Let's talk of their free and press and their own entertainment that does criticize the excesses of their government.
For instance, reading this thread will read like a fox news thread because many right wingers also align with Russia on this war, and fox is as mainstream as they come. Many right wing Americans also criticize their president and the US supporting Ukraine. That's the power of the citizens, but do we hear any single Russian oppose Putin? No because they would be killed.
We must stop shilling for Russia. Russia is an aggressor here, they refuse to recognize the sovereignty of Ukraine! No nigerian here would be happy if any other country invades us claiming to be more powerful than us, so why support the nonsense Russia is doing?
It's Russia vs Ukraine and I know who landed the first punch, I know who decided to start murdering the citizens of a sovereign nation in a bid to demolish them. Stop being hypocrites.
Who destroyed Iraq and Somalia and Syria and Libya and Afghanistan etc
Shoodboi: Of course. Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were the three nations that created the Soviet Union. Each nation in the USSR had its own president. The presidents of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were also responsible for dissolving and ending the USSR in 1991.
Of the six rulers of the Soviet Union, one was from Georgia, two were from Russia, and three were from Ukraine. So you see that Ukraine produced half of the presidents of the Soviet Union. So much for a country that claimed it was "forced" to join the USSR.
As a side note, the Georgian was Josef Stalin. Yep, Stalin isn't from Russia. He's Georgian.
they are angry they don't partake of Russia oil it normal
Stoplying: And I was dumb enough to believe them the first time they claimed so many Russian generals were being killed, I've stopped watching western media all together, they only know how to lie.
they said putin has cancer . While all this time it was Biden that had cancer lol
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pansophist: 1. False equivalence. The point is that America is rich and should afford a beautiful train station and network compared to Russia in which in your own words, California's economy is x3 bigger.
It's like going to the house of a Uber driver and seeing that he lives better than Dangote. How can you justify that? Are you normal?
2. Black and white comparison. Economics is not calculated like that. Even though Americans earn more, Americans also spend more. Don't forget it's the same US where over half of their population can't fork out 500 USD in an emergency.
A country where healthcare and university education is not free and a major cause of bankruptcy. A country where its citizens have a lower quality of life compared to other countries that earn low.
3. About California's economy is bigger than Russia x3, this is a very daft way to look at economics. Russia has things you can't quantify with money. They have lands, natural resources, oils, minerals, commodities, major food exporters, etc. I repeat this is not black and white.
For example, lots of illiterate village men are far wealthier than those suit-wearing bankers. These villagers have lands, farms, thousands of cows, etc. It's real-life assets that give money meaning. USD is just computer-generated wealth, that paper is not wealth in itself.
For example, Somali-shillings is a currency in Somali land. But since Somaliland is an unrecognized state, its currency is not valid outside Somaliland. But if you take cows, gold, diamond, silver, kidney, beans, or any real-life value from Somaliland to maybe Kenya, then it becomes valuable.
So to judge the largest country in the world as x3 poorer than California is just wrong. California's wealth is mostly computer-generated USD, it's not oil, gold, minerals, rare earth materials, etc. This is also why the US pegged the USD to Saudi oil, known as the petrodollar.
If Russia is also very poor, why does the US want to destroy it? Why not just ignore Russia? Russia is far more wealthy in real-life wealth than the US. In another post, I will break down the US economy. It's a myth. It's not number one.
How they arrived at such calculation I have studied for years, and as far as I am concerned, China for example has more real wealth than the G7 combined.
NATO has been defeated in the largest battle of the 21st century. It has so far has been won using Russian weapons and the skill and determination of the Russian military. The main effort to liberate the city itself was carried out by Wagner PMC.
When some of us in Africa were advising the West to stop this war and consider Russia's security concerns, they called us third world trolls. I wish them the best as they invoke their so called over hyped article 5 and start a nuclear war with Russia. 😎.... Oh I forgot... Nato only bullies weak nations and runs away from them after they spend two trillion for nothing and then..... Hides under another nation to do proxy war because they are scared of the body bags they will bring home..... God bless putin God bless mother Russia
Public press conference by General Christopher Cavoli, head of the US Armed Forces Joint European Command: "The assessment of the state of Russian troops taking part in the Ukrainian conflict has been seriously distorted by the media. Russia's air, sea, space and strategic forces did not suffer significant damage during the conflict. Russia is likely to build its future military into a larger and more capable force. Russia remains a formidable and unpredictable threat that will challenge US and European interests for the foreseeable future." All the media of the western world (in Italy, Repubblica, Corriere, stampa, Messaggero, Rai, LA7, Mediaset etc) HAVE DECEPTED public opinion WITH PROPAGANDA. We were told that Russia was in pieces and that within three months it would collapse and instead the real insiders and the real military experts know very well the true power of Russia and they know very well that Russia has already won in Ukraine. Well, to date more than 250,000 Ukrainians have died and over 85,000 are missing, not counting the wounded, they have financed the corrupt Zelinsky regime with hundreds of billions and yet the Biden Administration and NATO continue to arm Zelinsky and not seek peace . Why don't the US and NATO want peace?? If peace doesn't come soon, the conflict will spread to NATO countries, that is, to us Italians too. WHO DOESN'T WANT TO UNDERSTAND, OR IS BLIND, OR IS IN BAD FAITH.
Wagner Forces have reportedly Captured a Section of the AZOM Metalworking Plant in Northern Bakhmut, with them being pictured here at the Vostokmash Enterprise Building near the Sanitary Fittings Shop; this appears to be the same Building that President Zelensky used when awarding Medals to Defenders of the City back in December.
We told you that USA is nothing compared to mother Russia
It is common sense not rocket science,it is foolish individuals that Think Ukraine will defeat Russia because of some weapons from NATO, Russia has Been stockpiling weapons for over 40 years, they produce like 100 times more weapons than Ukraine, it's not even a sensible comparison, they have the means to wage war for a 100years against the whole if NATO and still not run out of weapons,not to talk of Ukraine, Ukraine has only suffered for just a year and they're already crying, Dem never even see anything
in 1813, Napoleon Bonaparte, who had already conquered the whole of continental Europe, and made it a family cake where every member of his family was liable to have a slice, dreamt of capturing Moscow, The idiot marched 600.000 troops to Russia and returned only with 20.000 after a crushing and humiliating defeat. The Moscow debacle motivated the rest of Europe to fight for their liberation. He was consequently, defeated at the battle of Leipzig and finally at the battle of Waterloo. He was then exiled to the Mediterranean island of Malta where he spent the rest of his miserable life.