Some, many of them are useful idiots who think they're doing the right thing
Its not funny and theyre not mental infants, its calculated, sociopathic geopolitical maneuvering by very capable, ruthless people
If someone is only willing to communicate with you through WhatsApp, they don't value your friendship.
I think the driving forces are more likely sociopathic corporate interests that want deregulation and foreign adversaries who want to see the US government dismantled (and allies driven away, and growing social division)
Fair enough, differing perspectives with a lot of truth mixed in. Anyway, seems we can both agree "the West" is really failing by providing such weak support for a large democracy being brutally invaded right on their doorstep. If not for ideals, then because it's the most rational thing to do when faced with such barbaric aggression.
I suspect they don't go all in because, as I said, they want to keep the Kremlin engaged. If you look at the cost and amount of military equipment destroyed its staggering, and the Kremlin won't be able to replace it any time soon.
You misunderstood my comparison to Afghanistan, but no need to be rude about it. Russians are brainwashed, many actually believe "the West" wants to invade and destroy them, and they've been taught lies about their history of brutally oppressing people.
I think many of Ukraine's partners have seen this as a cheap opportunity to see the Kremlin destroy its military... at the cost of Ukrainiane lives.
In other words, part of the equation for them is balancing support so it keeps Russia engaged but mostly static. So this lowers the Kremlin's ability to repeat this kind of barbaric land grab because their Soviet stockpiles are gone and the people are left wary of starting a new war.
Surprising to me that the war in Afghanistan cost 20,000 Russian lives over ten years and was a major factor in the dissolution of the USSR. This war in Ukraine absolutely dwarfs those numbers and its in its third year, yet the Russian people are too scared or brainwashed to act.
Not stupid of you're trying to support Trump's efforts to divide the US and its allies.
The said I was going to "get the wall" when they started their revolution, as in they were going to execute me with a firing squad. They also followed me around and down voted everything I posted, so I had to abandon that account.
I'm dead serious about it and also dead serious about hating them for threatening my life. Fuck them.
Hard to forget an instance that openly threatens to kill you. Hexbear is hateful garbage.
They want to spend 2 billion euros on disinformation so they don't have to spend 5 billion euros on their military.
For example, if they spent 2 billion getting Trump elected and he cuts off US support for Ukraine, that 5 billion would be an absolute bargain for them.
Block Lemmy.ml, hexbear, and dbzer0, then make your own list of keywords to block (Trump, Elon, murder, angry, etc etc)
The technique is to spread anger and divide people in western countries, or else they won't get a paycheck.
Meanwhile, I'm just in this thread to call out Lemmy.ml lies.
The Fediverse is terrible at handling misinformation, maybe its biggest flaw. The budget is precisely $0 and it shows.
Are they an adherant if they're paid? What about if it's an LLM?
I came into this thread just to downvote their lies.
NYC has one of the biggest public transportation systems ever built