'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates
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Long lazy meandering answer.
My degree is in geophysics, so I'm somewhat professionally connected to the world of resources. So that's where I get that angle.
Physics, as a degree, is somewhat of the universal bullshit detector, since you learn to take what people say and run back-of-napkin math to figure out what is or isn't realistic. "Now hang on, that doesn't sound right... let me check..."
Aside from that, I'm also a fan of historical fiction, geopolitical games (EU4, etc.), and my spare time pursuits tend to send me down research rabbit holes, disentangling the fiction from reality. Largely for my own amusement. But it comes in handy on trivia night if the topic is the Teutonic Knights or something.
In grad school I'd hang out with the philosophers, geographers, and others that were asking large questions with beer in hand. "I'll buy you a beer if you can convince me the electron is real." was not a pickup line, but the start to several hours of liquored debate.
I've been known to be mildly politically active, and sort of on top of the pulse. But never an activist or anything. Observing and predicting is fun.
Today I was in Google Earth just looking at the continent of North America, looking at it as though I were the US playing a strategy game. The major areas of contention right now for the US are: Greenland, Panama, Mexico, and Canada. It's like he is establishing future boundaries at the edges of the continent -- like it is an affront that borders exist on it. Upon further contemplation, Canada is fucked if this is what they're doing. So I created [email protected] to start organizing -- maybe the space will grow organically.
But, no, I don't subscribe to higher end geopolitical info sources. That doesn't mean I eschew them either (ISW was particularly interesting at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine). I just integrate or search for info when questions are interesting.
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Their constitution has protections on their rights for just such a situation, so they should be quite aware of their rights and what they're capable of as a people.
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Are you suggesting individuals should take up arms against their government?
How exactly do you expect that to look? Did you see what happened Jan 6?
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I just meant the people in the US with the power to help him. Hopefully the EU will be able to step in since the US has decided to go full Nazi.
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Yeah, they got their leader elected… and got pardoned and are walking free, smug as shit.
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Yeah combat footage was on the news
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did you vote? because a lot of people didn't even do that.
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Unity
between lefties and liberals(german communists and socialists) as a common front against the nazi threat would have worked too, but they were busy bickering. That would have helped a lot in the 1930s, but nobody was expecting what was about to happen. We know today what happens when you let fascists in the henhouse, but everyone is doing the same all over again. -
yep. in every single election, not just presidential ones.
the
richestmost convincing liar usually wins and my vote doesn't really matter... but it's all I can do so
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I'm over here hoping we're a cautionary tale for you all right now.
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If any good can come from this it could be a stronger Europe, working towards their own goals and own futures with less concern for American hegemony.
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Agreed, as long as Europe can avoid falling to fascism like we have. Far-right parties have been doing alarmingly well there lately.
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That xenomorph is sexy AF compared to the shit in the top picture!
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One of my states local congresspeople is a Ukrainian Immigrant.
She's a Republican.
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They were saying that, if you at least voted, you've lifted a finger.
I feel you though. Being a lone voice in a county that went like 93% Trump, it definitely feels like my vote doesn't matter. Hell, our mayor at the time was caught drunk driving with his niece in the car after a fundraiser, told the cop 'do you know who i am' and threatened his job, and he STILL won by a lot.
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Nah. We wanted trump in.
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Spent a week in the UK visiting my sister recently. There is an overwhelmingly positive amount of support on the TV there.
I get the view that they called the current shit show before the rest of us.
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Exactly as I've been predicting.
& it took 1 month, to-the-day, for Trump to resolve to that position, too.
There's 44 MORE months until the purported "election" which Trump would have, to elect his-replacement, right?
The Trump/Putin/Orban/Millei/LePen/AfD/Farage/etc. global-alliance is going to be OWNING this world's-determination, shortly, unless SOMEBODY among the various "political parties" grows some SPINE, immediately.
What "Interesting Times" to be living-in..
( yes, that refers to the Chinese curse: "may you live in interesting-times". )
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People wanted Putin in at first too, no? Didn't he do the whole "I'm the strong man who will save everyone and only I can do it" kind of bs like Trump, then once in gutted everything in order to consolidate and maintain power also kind of like Trump?
I'm actually fairly ignorant on his initial rise to power, so please don't be too hard on me
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An inside agent.
