Yeah, the US would never allow that.

“They cease, we fire.”

I really hate the kind of liberal reform where they recognize that something is obviously bad, but instead of banning it they just require that the business discloses the information. Heaven forbid we restrain businesses or interfere in the market in any way!

And incredibly the only other party thinks that forcing them to disclose is too much regulation. 🤡

Does it work?

I’ve found some success in turning the focus back on the West. The NATO bloc has put Ukraine in $100 billion in debt, has made all of its aid conditional on the exploitation of its energy and mineral and agricultural resources, and is intent on fighting to the last Ukrainian. It makes Western imperialism in Ukraine pretty obvious, even if I don’t touch on Maidan being a coup that installed a neonazi banderite regime run by Western collaborators (because they’ll dismiss that as Russian propaganda).

My angle has always been that the West never wanted Ukraine to even win, they just wanted it to be a millstone around Russia.

Defending Russia’s actions seems impossible. As we see here, to the liberal mind, whoever swings first is the bad guy. That’s it.

I’ve actually heard liberals say defining imperialism as economic is specifically a Leninist definition of imperialism, just so they don’t have to engage with it. Lenin was just trying to confuse us! Everyone knows the USSR was an empire. 🤡

We can’t understand any of that if we use the liberal, vibes based definition of imperialism. As far as they’re concerned you’re just doing mental gymnastics, imperialism is just when countries do empire stuff like annexations and invasions.

You’re not vibing hard enough.

If the US responded to the “requests” of separatists for support, and then those separatists voted to join the US, the imperialism would be pretty obvious. How do you explain to liberals that there is a difference?

If international law can’t stop genocide it doesn’t exist, it’s a figleaf that is only seriously used against the empire’s enemies.

The alternative would be world revolution. You can’t have international law coexist with imperialism. The empire must die.

Are we still pretending international law exists?

Please recommend me a news outlet that isn’t propaganda. CNN? MSNBC? Fox? lol

Yeah, look at how we all read the threads posted to our instance.

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Isn’t this victim blaming?

Cuba didn’t cause those clandestine projects, though? The CIA caused them.

You’re seemingly blaming Cuba for CIA plotting. It’s not Cuba’s fault that they foiled the CIA’s plots, it’s the CIA’s fault for plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro! Stopping the CIA doesn’t make Cuba a sponsor of terror, it makes the CIA a terrorist organization.

Sounds like the CIA was the cause, not Cuba.

Actually other countries have joined SA in their genocide case: Nicaragua, Belgium, Colombia, Turkey, Libya, Egypt, Maldives, Mexico, Ireland, Chile, Spain, and Palestine itself. The UN itself weighed in too and called Israel’s actions a genocide.

Any country could bring a genocide case against Russia, yet no one has.

Doesn’t that tell you anything?

Russia can’t end the aggression and neither can Venezuela, they’re doing literally the only thing they can do.

Why hasn’t the ICJ opened a case?

This isn’t a matter of technical definition, it’s the crime of crimes. There’s a reason no legal case for genocide has been made, it’s because the standards for it are too hight for anything Russia has done to meet.

Calling it genocide cheapens the term.

That “key difference” is precisely how we can tell that Russia isn’t committing genocide, nor does it intend to.

The numbers published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: 14,383 killed and 37,541 injured since 2022. The true numbers are probably higher, but this isn’t Gaza.