He’s such a weasel, trying to subtly regurgitate Russian propaganda while appearing concerned for Ukrainians

As an American liberal, I can say the current administration’s views are somewhat reflective of how American right-wingers have viewed Europe for a long time: bureaucratic, too institutional, “socialist”, irreligious, and anti-free speech.

Could be reaching here, but he’s become more unhinged since the Epstein stuff came out and he’s faced a string of losses domestically and a pretty bad approval rating. I think he never cared about Ukraine and he’s just in a “fuck it, blow it all up” mode when it comes to foreign policy.

It’s American diabolism. Also they’re probably salty that Assad fell and all the narratives from the 2010s that it was immoral to intervene in the Syrian civil war and the resulting migrant crisis being the West’s fault were tarnished.

All their narratives about NATO expansion being unnecessary and Russia not being a threat were eviscerated in Feb 2022, so now I think they’re lying like MAGA purely out of spite.

Love how this will get under Putin’s skin

They’re the biggest crybullies in the world.

Which countries were the least successful? That is, tried the hardest to incentivise Americans to come but got the least in return?

Yeah. It’s the main obstacle to the U.S. getting universal healthcare, because at least half the country want to means test and stipulations on who qualifies for such programs

And yes, multipolarity is just a term that means mini-empires for China and Russia, possibly Iran.

No. I mean leftists. The “anti-war” movement is quite unpopular, at least in the US

I don’t remember any tankies predicting the invasion in 2021/22. You guys rewrite history after the fact.

Polls are already against Israel and its actions in Gaza and the Left’s inability to capitalise off that and create an optically viable movement is a massive failure and the fact that they can’t see that is a further indictment of them

They can’t see that a lot of their Gaza rhetoric and optics pushes people away and when confronted with that fact they inevitably say it’s not the time for respectability or optics because a g*nocide is happening.

You’re right. Mearsheimer gave an interview recently and he framed the Europeans and Ukrainians as obstacles to peace. I knew then that the talking points had shifted, because even with Trump bending over backwards trying to appease Putin, he’s still rejecting every possible off ramp

Lemme guess, you blame NATO expansion for the current war? Despite Putin repeatedly claiming Ukraine is a fake country and their lands belong to him

Many people in Ukraine were already speaking Russian until Putin decided to meddle in their affairs, invade their country, and tried to force them to join the Eurasian Economic Union. His stupid actions just made people drop the Russian language

Geopolitics is shifting to the point where their illiberal positions are becoming untenable. For example, they’ve staked out realist positions on Ukraine yet the U.S. may move against Venezuela and their” sphere of influence” position goes out the window.