The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.
Edit: Anti-paywall link: https://archive.is/vnzoT
No he hasn’t.
One of the biggest gripes I’ve had with Americans over the years has been their perspective that America was the whole world. The rest of the world was just “out there somewhere”, some vague hinterland that news stories came from sometimes but that didn’t really matter and was totally at the whim of whatever was going on in the real place in the world, America. Even now, even among the Americans who are horrified at Trump and what he’s doing and want to say sympathetic things to the allies he’s screwing over, we’re still seeing this.
Putin’s useful idiot has smashed America and America’s global dominance. This is bad for America, sure. But it’s not necessarily bad for the whole world, and it’s not necessarily even good for Putin in the grand scheme of things. Putin is still three years into his three-day “special military operation”, with his troops travelling to the front lines on crutches and donkeys to die in meat waves. Finland and Sweden joined NATO. The EU is allocating hundreds of billions of Euros to defense. Germany just elected a government that seems willing to stand up and join them in combating Russia. Russia is still completely hosed. It is not bending the world to Putin’s vision.
Sure, it would have been nice to have America fully on board with defeating him too. But America’s only a part of the whole world, and an increasingly smaller part these days. Let them go wallow in the isolation they seemingly crave.
What nonsense. This is great for Putin. There’s no American Isolation, USA has begun switching to the authoritarian side and is now directly moving against the democracies. Finland and Sweden were hardly worth it in trade.
It is pretty fucking bad for Ukraine as well.
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Impeach the russian asset and remove his cabinet!
they can’t, because all branches of government are staffed with loyalists
and leftists won’t vote
so there is nothing
Murica died with a whimper
America losing is not equivalent to Russia winning.
Yeah, europe is back up again.
I wish it was. But Europe is confused and not united enough. They still can’t believe the US is on Russian side now, hoping for the best. And they’re paralyzed, because every real action is bocked by the pro-Russian countries among them.
Not fast enough for sure, but I’m definitely confident we’ll get there. Three years ago would have been better, to save Ukraine, today it’s the whole free world at stake.
Three years sound way too many. By that time, how many countries are going to fall victim to the same forces that got the US? Hungary and Slovakia are already lost. This year, it’s going to be Czechia. And who knows which other elections in which countries are going tu turn out badly.
I wish Europe was able to act now and purge all the infowar actors, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
Oh, I’ve just read this article. It’s depressing but important for understanding the European capability to defend itself - which is almost nonexistent without the US. I didn’t know it was that bad. https://archive.is/GCWGk
Paywalled article
Sorry forgot lol, https://archive.is/vnzoT
