TheLepidopterists [he/him]

The lack of condemnation for this is horrible. People treat everything like a team sport now. I’m against Russia, so any action that theoretically is aimed at harming them is acceptable.

These are going to kill children for decades.

Typical

You haven’t been following the genocide closely because you don’t really care about it. Otherwise you’d know that Yemen, despite being small and poor and isolated, has consistently blockaded the zionist entity throughout the genocide and has shut down their Red Sea trade routes completely, refusing to reopen them unless the genocide ends.

Nobody else comes close to having helped the Palestinians as much and as consistently as Yemen. This is important.

I’d trade a million of you for one more Yemeni anti-ship armament.

That thread was a tough read.

Yemen has been tirelessly fighting the genocide the whole time, even though it got them bombed by the satanic West.

Fuck you for denigrating them in the context of the Palestinian genocide, who do you think you are?

The idea that defensive weapons don’t expand your ability to kill is so obviously false. It’s disrespectful to expect people not to realize that.

The world has understand MAD for almost a century. Someone who feels safe from reprisal is more likely to engage in violence. Someone who knows they could be harmed in a fight is less likely to start one.

Fuck AOC, she’s not stupid, she knows this. She just literally doesn’t care about Israel committing genocide. Nazi enabler.

EDIT: That was rude, sorry.

This is a bad take. Openly siding with a genocide is worse than taking sides against the genocide, even when mtg is the one who suggested taking their missiles away.

That might help if the whole thing wasn’t in bad faith but I’m not confident of that.

I strongly disagree with almost everything in your post, but I don’t want to get into a huge line by line discussion about everything, so I’m just going to address the emotionally loaded propaganda phrasing that you keep using.

Furthermore if not a full scale invasion, then what was the push for Kiev when the war started?

An invasion. You can just say invasion. You know that that accurately describes what happened, but “full scale” makes it sound more sinister while providing zero information.

What does full scale even mean? Total war like in WW2? Troops in every part of the invaded country? All of the invading country’s armed forces entering the invaded country?

It clearly can’t be any of those because none of those are true. It doesn’t mean anything. Russia invaded Ukraine is a fact. “Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine” is a propaganda line from a Washington Post article.

Full scale invasion is a phrase that you keep using, and it makes you sound like you’re getting all your information from redditors, because it just means invasion but sounds worse, like regime vs government.

The issue is you can say all the same about Russia in this case, except for not being NATO aligned.

First of all, that’s not true. Russia wasn’t overthrown a decade ago by neo-nazis and they weren’t creating neo-nazi brigades within their military and using them to harass minority language speakers while also banning them from public life.

Secondly being NATO aligned is an incredibly big deal. For one, it puts you within the political bloc that’s committing a modern Holocaust, amongst a bunch of other horrific crimes.

And trying to destroy a Nazi government is much different than the CIA couping a country to install a Nazi government what are you talking about?

I’m asking for reasons as to why to critically support Russia as opposed to Ukraine and if the strategic advantage is worth the moral repercussions.

You sound like a liberal. I’ve pretty much only ever seen good posts from lemmygrad so this is shocking to me.

There’s a lot to dislike about modern Russia but I’m not sure why a Marxist would strongly object to them for being at war with a US aligned, neo-nazi aligned NATO proxy that was running an ethnic cleansing campaign right on the Russian border.

In response, the authors provide what they describe as the “first global legal blueprint explaining how to prosecute sexual violence as a weapon of war - even when evidence is messy, survivors are gone, and individual perpetrators can’t be tied to individual acts”.

That’s weird how are you going to prosecute if you can’t identify a perpetrator?

That includes an evidentiary framework to categorise information based on its proximity to incidents and its evidentiary value, and a legal framework for establishing criminal responsibility for atrocities committed during mass attacks, even when an individual did not personally commit each specific act

Oh, just all Palestinians are culpable for these alleged acts

or were not aware of its commission by someone else.

Even if they had nothing to do with them at all?

The report concludes by saying that justice is “essential not only for individual victims but for affirming broader principles: that sexual violence in conflict is a serious violation of international law, that perpetrators will be held accountable, and that the international community will not allow such crimes to be committed with impunity”.

Well the bad news is that the international community is allowing a modern holocaust to be committed with impunity, so these allegations are unlikely to go anywhere, but I guess the “good news” is that the people involved in the Dinah Project won’t be going to prison for being Israeli propagandists during that modern holocaust, while Israel isremoved POWs to death in camera.

Sickening read. Fuck the BBC.

It’s crazy that the absolute lowest mortality rate the empire ever managed was still like double the Soviet Union’s mortality rate during the middle of WW2.

Delusions of grandeur about the people who ended the Holocaust is wild coming from the petty tyrant of a reddit knockoff that they named after themselves.

Being so ideologically rigid that you’d let children starve to avoid “state authoritarian bureaucracy” is not actually something to be proud of, lib

“A type of economic success achieved multiple times under “the tankies” and under literally nobody else would definitely have been achieved under the liberal government that the October revolution overthrew” is too farfetched and historically unfounded to even make a good historical fiction what if novel.

You looked at a chart that outlined improvements in quality of life that included a boom in agricultural output, aka, literally feeding the children and called it

The Marxist equivalent of “but the GDP…”

That is in fact very obviously true. If they hadn’t developed their economy far faster than any other society in history, they couldn’t possibly have produced enough food and war materiel to defeat the Nazis, which I hope we can agree was an extremely important thing for the Soviets to be able to do.

: The revolution that feeds the children gets my support.

You, apparently: fuck those kids