Note: I should have posted this a year ago but I'm a political sissy and I thought it wasn't worth posting. Lo and behold, Trump says the exact same things I was thinking then.
2.19.25 coward
1. We should never have allowed it to happen. All we had to do was not allow Ukraine into NATO, a military alliance AGAINST RUSSIA. Russia explicitly warned Ukraine against this.
For context, Ukraine is viewed by Russia as their prime territory, it'd be a bit like Texas seceding from the U.S. Except it's even better, imagine Texas had accepted the Zimmerman Telegraph, joined the Axis, and received hundreds of millions of dollars of military funding from WWII Germany -- do you see why we might go to war with Texas then?
2. Russia is not someone you want to go to war with, ever. They're the size of a CONTINENT with an equally large population of tough ingenious bastards. They invented the AK47, or Kalashnikov, though that's probably less to brag about. My favorite fact is that Maine is on the same latitude as France. Russia is way, way, way above that. Otto von Bismarck, the guy who invented Realpolitik and united Germany said, "The secret of politics? Have a good treaty with Russia." Russia does not get enough credit for military pressure on the Eastern front, probably because we enjoy spreading American Military Superiority propaganda.
3. War is bad. Obviously. This is Russians killing Russians. Multiple peace treaties have been offered that Zelensky has refused, and look at his country now. Zelensky is literally an actor for crying out loud. Also he won't allow elections and tours around on his fucking jet begging for money. Gets even better when he puts on a military costume, freaking clown.
4. Russian media reports Ukrainian military murdering Ukrainian civilians for peacefully surrendering to the Russian military. There are also videos of men being dragged off the street into a white van, another of a father in front of one of those military offices with a draft note -- with his two daughters. Also the guy dressing up as a babushka to get groceries without getting conscripted. Though, we do live in the age of the deepfake. As the Russians say, "There is no truth in the news, there is no news in the truth."
5. As an aside, the Russian Boogeyman... they could have nuked us from Cuba when we had no method of retaliation. Why didn't they?
6. How much money did we send over there? For an unnecessary war? While Americans are in a silent recession? And where did that money go? Embezzled. Money effectively laundered. Thank you, government.
7. Oh, and Russia, China, and east Europe are forming an economic/military alliance called BRICS. If I recall correctly, they are focused on retrieving gold from the U.S. reserve. Americans should have been shitting bricks over this. 8. Anyways, the whole thing was stupid from start to finish, except the stupidity killed Ukrainians and razed Ukraine. Who was responsible? I blame Biden and Zelensky and all the stupid fucking warhawks behind them. Y'all should learn the history of a country before you start waving their flag. Russian elites have been dreaming of a unified Slavic bloc since before WWI, and you gave them a perfect reason to invade, then you wanted Putin to back out of a war with no concessions. Fucking la la land.
Anyways, what's a stupid Western git gon' do about this shit? I'm out.