MultigrainCerealista [he/him, comrade/them]

I see a lot of geopolitical calculus in your response - to what extent is the influence of the US over Europe and European markets limited by a Russian victory. You present something of a US-centric point of view but sure it’s a valid one. If Russia wins then yes likely the geopolitical influence of the USA will be knocked back to where it was in the 1980s with true multipolar politics, and it’s also true that if Europe wasn’t sanctioning Russian energy then they’d likely be buying that much cheaper energy, thereby reducing the geopolitical influence of the USA over Europe.

So I think I agree with most of what you say. But your perspective leaves something very important out of the equation:

Where does the will of the people who live in Donbas and Lubansk and Crimea factor into your math? Do we respect their right to self-determination? If not, why not?

The US is calling for the Somme

They exercise editorial control and they exercise it vigorously, so when they report on something it’s for a reason.

Does your comment intend to imply they’re just presenting some economic data points or something? It seems kind of inane to pretend that they don’t have a lens where this is a bad thing. That China bad etc etc.

The crisis is over

That’s the thing. It isn’t.

Ukraine should perform under the flag of Bandera

It is though. You can look at so many measures from perception of democracy among the citizens, the degree to which power is devolved to the local level most answerable to the community, and the turnover of elected officials being far higher than western democracies which usually feature politicians with what amounts to lifelong tenure.

People actually think China is still run the way it was back in the 1960s because their world view is formed from memes. It’s a democracy and a more vibrant one than what we usually see in the west.

But someone will reply to this with a meme about social credit without realizing they don’t earn Reddit gold here.

Our posting power is high and we are online a lot

Democracy is when The People Decide if trans people should exist but the tax rate policy is written by the rich

Serbia, Libya, and Afghanistan were all defensive operations.

Oh so like some kind of “social credit score” or something curious

2021 articles predicting Chinas imminent collapse that didn’t happen then either and a YouTube blogger

Solid.

It actually keeps collapsing and rebuilding itself from scratch every two weeks such is the power of Dengism

Which European country isn’t pursuing neoliberal economics?