Frank [he/him, he/him]

I like that analysis, thank you.

You love to see it. It’s wild how outright piracy has become a normal tool of international diplomacy.

Big oof. Eco-fascism ahoy!

You’d think “people can’t afford to fuck” would be some kind of wake up call for capital.

That’s nice.

I didin’t justify anything. I just told you what happened.

Presumably the young men of Ukraine will realize that throwing themselves on to the enemy guns is a losing proposition at some point before that but who knows?

How does that saying go?

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

I keep telling everyone to read Sun Tzu because he’s very specific, numerous times, about not doing this specific thing. : p

There are a finite number of 18-35 year old men.

Open circulatory system gang stay wining.

Good to know. Thank you for the information.

It’s like one page. You asked for an explanation of what’s going on. Take it or leave it. Sorry it’s not formatted very well I had to type it on the fly at like 3am.

Okay, sure. That fits.

Good point.

Fair, fair.

improperly handled conscriptions.

Technically they fired every conscription officer in the country for bribery so I’m not sure that really supports your case.

Federatin is great I really forgot all the deep, nuanced, informative conversations I used to have on Reddit. I am learning so much here!

Iraq wasn’t a war of conquest.

Please, for god’s sake log off before you strain something.

less and less bad at how they’re doing it over time.

This is actually disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourself. The Americans murdered a million Iraqis, and in the last few years at least 400,000 Yemenis, plus god knows who else and in what numbers.

How many of those involve not giving in to the aggressor?

How can it be hammered in to your skull that this is not a story book where good guys win by virtue of their righteousness?

This is geopolitics. An empire wants to conquer an outlying resource rich region it has not been able to bring under it’s control. It has provoked a small outlying nation to act as a proxy to weaken it’s enemy. Ukraine isn’t making decisions. They’re just ammunition in someone else’s war and the best thing for them would be to mutiny against Kiev and end the slaughter. Status quo antebellum is not on the menu.