Private Eye nails it again.
That reminds me, I need to check for new episodes of Have I Got News For You. Ian Hislop is one of the wittiest people on television today and the banter between him and Paul Merton is always epic.
lavrovs equivalent, witkoff is trying to frame putins war as not a war,.
Is she already gone, the lettuce won.
5 days. She lasted 5 days. The lettuce is still crisp and green.
That’s 0.454 Scaramuccis.
You’re quite fast at that. 😄
Yeah so the reason Trump is allying with Russia isn’t because he’s Putin’s dog. Allying with Russia is a purely geostrategic decision meant to undermine BRICS which is the primary economic organization weakening American hegemony. The blue side of the American ruling class first aligned with the European bloc which sought to destroy or at least severely weaken Russia through the Ukraine war and economic sanctions partly because of the threat Russia could be militarily but mainly because of the threat to western global economic institutions like the IMF and World Bank that BRICS poses. Russian economic presence in Africa and West Asia is a direct threat to the imperial core’s ability to extract wealth from those regions. They do not wish to have competition, their economies can’t honestly survive that competition long term. This route is very obviously failing. Russia still exists, it is still economically strong, weakened a bit yeah but not unrecoverable. Europe isn’t though, Europe is pushing austerity on its people to fund a military build up.
The red side of the American ruling class recognizes this failure and is taking a different route. It seeks to make an ally of Russia in order to isolate China and, ideally, create a new economic bloc with Russia to exploit the imperial periphery and make a semi-periphery of Europe.
Personally I do not believe this route will work either but I do believe it is what they are hoping for. Entire nations do not decide their broad geopolitical decisions based on personal relationship.
Russia still exists, it is still economically strong, weakened a bit yeah but not unrecoverable. Europe isn’t though,
Doubt. If Russia’s GDP is around the same as Italy’s, and is 20% of the total GDP of France, Germany and UK put together, I don’t see how that can be spun as “stronger than Europe”. It’s not even stronger than individual countries in Europe!
I didn’t mean to imply that it is economicallt stronger than Europe as a hole. My goal was to present Russia as a significant growing economy in global competition to Europe through it’s connections independent of european control. Russia has vast material resources on its own and is allying with anti-european economic independence globally. Subjugating or destroying the Russian economy would be a significant blow to this movement.
I do not mean to imply that Russia’s support for anti-imperialist movements in Africa and West Asia are entirely benevolent but it is a threat to Western imperialist economic systems.
Leave it to the tankie to sanewash (although there is nothing sane about their rant) Trump.
Absolute moronic tankie take, but completely expectable.
Leave it to piefed to dismiss something without a good reason
Yeah it’s nutjob conspiracy theories mixed with what seems like russian propaganda I don’t know. Trying to form patterns among the chaos is just what a human brain does but still…
Entire nations do not decide their broad geopolitical decisions based on personal relationship.
I see you’ve never heard of a dictatorship have you?
Even in a dictatorship this is not the case. Kings would be killed by their nobles if they did not defend their interests. A dictator does not just get to do whatever they want, they have to meet the needs of their political base which they absolutely have. Often that political base is a military or cohort of oligarchs. They are not independent of these forces.
Yeah sure. I’m sure the people of North Korea are soo happy.
ughh libs and their “oRanGe mAn iS RuzZiAn AsSet ruZzia BAD” russophobic propaganda
Tell me, if Trump WERE a Russian asset, how would his behavior be different?
It’s not an American newspaper you moron there’s no “libs” involved
I actually quite like Private Eye when it isn’t being transphobic or homophobic or promoting vaccine misinformation. It does more good journalism around corruption than you’d think. But I think “libs” is an entirely accurate description of what they are.
It’s left wing. The Democrats are center right by global standards
Yup. Lemmy.ml user
Doubt your rage bait attempt will work on anyone at this point
since when is posting facts “rage bait” haha
Weak come back, I suggest you go cry somewhere
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can you do it again i the funny random capital letters? i found it more convincing
do you not know spongecase meme?
We have better humour on the liberal side
Haha, your face is rage bait, I am troll too
If they ever stop they might leave themselves enough cognitive capacity to critically think about their political life and the actual results their philosophy has brought them, and then they wouldn’t be liberals anymore. So the Lib Leaders make sure the chorus never goes silent, just rotates from Russia bad to China bad to DPRK bad and back to Russia again. They’ll probably add the Sahel states to the list once enough Libs figure out where they are.
It’s a satirical headline, it’s not that serious
You are responding to an .ml user.
I’m aware
