47 sats \ 5 replies \ @psychosage 26 Aug \ parent \ on: Ukraine: Further attempts at escalation news
You are right that it is about access to resources and pricing power. Everything else is based on the false premise that these institutions have adults in the room. Knowing that, you are left with the path of least human suffering. Sometimes you have to burn a line in the forest to stop a blaze spreading to exponentially more damage.
Truth and love always prevail because light eventually sheds on lies and hate. It gets messy sometimes, and that sucks. I know it seems paradoxical, but there is indeed less human suffering involved by stopping Putin. Putin is a dark triad. The only thing he wants is more for himself, and when he doesn’t, more suffering on others will suffice. This isn’t a propagandist narrative, it’s verifiable scientific research based on how narcissistic machveiallian psychopaths function. When you use the dark triad as the north star for how Putin thinks and functions, his trajectory is quite predictable.
Stopping him is the only way. And it does not require dismantling the Russian state as you seem to think I am suggesting. All it takes is to get enough Russian citizens pissed off at him and kick him out of the Kremlin, crossing their fingers that someone with a better head on their shoulders will take over. Ukraine knows this, and they know that killing (and preferably capturing) young Russian conscripts is a good way to do that. They probably have a thousand other reasons to do what they are doing, but again, I am some idiot playing keyboard warrior and not much else.
i can understand your point from your point of view, but i completely disagree. firstly, i don't believe that you can defeat a nuclear power like Russia with such a stable economy and low national debt and support for the political regime in war. and secondly, i have just as little faith in our so-called elites as the eu or the entire criminal force in London not to believe that a lot is being played wrong here too. hence my position of neutrality, and saving as many lives as possible. And from a libertarian point of view, I could also care less whether I live under the criminal force A or the crook force B
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If you want to stay neutral, stay silent. By saying something, you are picking a side. You spoke, and picked a side. I spoke and obviously picked the opposing side. As a consequence, both crooks won and we lost because we could have been spending our precious time on things that we can directly control, like our individual economic output, or supporting our families, or strengthening our community, or speaking about things that we are experts in and actually have some semblance of authority in our assertions.
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I can barely order a coffee in the morning, brother. You should seek elsewhere if you’re looking for a C.O.
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Brother... interesting. I guess he is not your brother and he doesn't want to be your brother. I would never start a discussion with a psycho. So just stay away from this guy @TomK
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