Long term US goal still fantasized about. UN seal on this is shocking, but proof of US corruption over UN processes.

Anyway, western disinformation that motivates people to aspire to such demonism is self destructive. It is demonism because the purpose of Balkanizing Russia is to make it dysfunctional, where democracy is a corruption vector for CIA as it is in the west or Georgia/Ukraine/Navalny.

When Eisenhower warned of Military Industrial complex, US was already an oligarchy, and the warning was the declaration of defeat.

JFK assassination was deep state stuff, followed by more pandering to oligarchy with Regan. Media was always in charge of who won elections. That the veil of pretense for liberalism is removed doesn’t change the nature of US empire, and its autocracy over meaningful rulership. Trump simultaneously threatens the US empire’s covert colonization of world, while threatening to subjugate world even harder. Naked Oligarchy, and explicit anti-liberalism as treason, is a hallmark of incoming rulership through.

World news has identical paid US militarist control as main reddit subs. Ultra easy to be banned, and banning is needed to control low information people, the majority of which are unconcerned with criticality, who read a lot of news information with the bias.

On a per user basis, lemmy has higher concentration of US empire agenda censorship agents than reddit.

Yes US/Ukraine instigated it. The key to any Russian missile launch is Russian opinion that US instigated the war.

Both objective reality, and Russian perception, is that US is 100% responsible for instigating and perpetuating the war. The only objective for fighting is to continue to diminish Russia through NATO or US alignment. You are essentially saying that it is legitimate to make the “evil side” STFU through a nuclear strike potentially on civilian/economic targets. You can thank Putin for being so moderate and patient in this war so far, in not making the US choose to STFU and collapse.

I wonder if my neighbours will think fucking around with Russia was worth finding out, or rejoice in the victory of retaliation.

Due to Ukrainian anti-soviet (nazi) influence in 1990s, the famine was upgraded to a genocide for Ukraine (Holomodor). “Stalin bad” is a welcome narrative for US/CIA.

There was a genuine global famine at the time, and the US demanded Stalin pay USSR debt in food. Most of those exports went through Ukraine, and so Ukraine had some agency in its own famine levels. Ukraine’s per capita food allotment was higher than most USSR states including non-nazi/non-antagonist Kazahkstan which had more deaths but did not declare famine a genocide.

The complex politics, like Syria’s famine/drought that sowed the seeds for ISIS/Israel takeover, meant not making everyone happy. Bourgeois farmers outside of Ukraine, the Kulaks, wanted extortion, famine market, pricing, and Stalin wanted to pay them less.

The Irish Potato famine, was an oligarchist driven famine, the US would approve Stalin of having chosen. There was plenty of Irish potato production, but the prices were too high for the Irish to pay, so they were exported more. Stalin’s “crime” was fighting extortion pricing.