But John was just a teenager tho

To build trust.

This is a common bullshit stance Russia apologists love to take.

Why is the burden of building trust on NATO when Russia had just gotten done occupying and oppressing half of Europe?

You understand nearly every single European country under the Iron Curtain wanted to diplomatically run to the West because of how fucking awful Russia was to them, right?

Russia is also the prize. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard

Ok rather than just slapping a reference and link to an entire article, why don’t you articulate the point you’re trying to get across than making me read through that entire thing to find your point?

Suggesting that they wouldn’t dismantle their power to the point that they get a regime change for independent politics like nationalizing the oil industry.

If you’re claiming Russia’s atrocities against Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya, Syria, (and everywhere they’ve sent the Nazi mercs Wagner is all to keep power, you’re insane.

Nato after 1991 also didn’t make strategic sense with a crumbled Russia.

1. Russia still had plenty of leadership and factions that held animosity towards the West.

2. Russia still had nukes.

3. You act like all was clear and settled after the USSR collapsed. It wasn’t. It was an era of uncertainty, especially with the aforementioned unstable Russia.

Why abandon the military alliance when you don’t know if the enemy is truly gone?

What about all other countries not being part of a strong military alliance? Why do only the most prosperous and strong countries feel threatened?

Are you a child? You understand the geopolitical situation for North America and Europe isn’t gonna be exactly the same as, say, Ecuador, right?.

Either dissolving Nato or inviting Russia would have created the opportunity to fully implement the idea of the UN and leave conflicts behind.

That is a laughable fantasy.

Russia didn’t turn to fascism under Putin because NATO exists. Russia also doesn’t invade its neighbors just because NATO exists.

Russia does this shit because the Russian gov is imperialist and lead by a dictator. Placing Russia in NATO would most certainly created a greater clusterfuck when they inevitably turned fascist and started invading its neighbors.

The problem is that we also have Capitalism. The UN doesn’t limit the power of billionaires. That’s fine within the West

The west is actively facing a striking rise in fascism not dissimilar to how it happened in Russia because of capitalism and billionaires.

but the Russians must have objected to being treated like any weak economy. This should be the actual reason why Russia is not part of Nato.

Idk what you’re even trying to say here

You mean the ceasefire was entirely theatrical bullshit from Netanyahu and Trump?!?!

That’s gotta be a shock to literally nobody.

Russia wasn’t exactly a bastion of stability at that era, especially as Shock Therapy economics absolutely destroyed the country.

Additionally, all these other countries that wanted into NATO vehemently hated Russia for years of occupation. They’d probably have been far more hesitant to join if Russia was in there.

Not saying there wasn’t malice on the side of the West, but at no point in NATO’s existence had inviting Russia into the fold made any strategic sense.

Fact: Trump and his goons were already crushing dissent and looking for any path to do so, regardless as to whether they had an excuse or not.

Don’t let Trump crush resistance to fascism too.

Future headline:

Microsoft’s Windows update will eliminate “side loading” unauthorized programs.

Wasn’t she starting out this year gaslighting her fans and blaming them for associating her with politics even though she voluntarily had a public crash-out against Kamala over Palestine?

I just can’t see her as the one people should rally behind since she seems to only want to engage with politics when it suites her, not whenever its genuinely important.

I think you’re getting down voted because people don’t know from your original comment that you were referring to OP.

But yeah. Fuck these fake leftists who rallied hard against the idea of voting for Harris over Trump, then turn around crying and shivering that their virtue signal boycott surrendered the country to fascism.

This is necessary to get people started out.

Gets them familiar with how protesting needs to be done.

So when shit inevitably gets worse, they and their friends who stayed home last time will be out again and likely for longer too.

You want to move millions of people to fight for freedom? Gotta get them used to the motions first.

It can if we include things such as power generators

Wheels are fundamentally the same, mechanically.

How they’re made changes, and what they’re made of changes, but they are fundamentally the same mechanically for how they function

If that graphic is accurate, the media didn’t “get” anyone. Seems some countries are actually gun-ho with the elimination of privacy, and its a movement that doesn’t die with one failed vote.

Y’all are getting too fucking comfortable. Authoritarianism is always around the corner, even when things feel safe.

The drive to put AI on everything has never been pushed by anyone who genuinely understand the technology.

It is entirely pushed by billionaires who hate the rest of humanity and want legal chattel slavery from a populace that won’t resist. Hence the push towards AI, regardless that they hallucinate all the time.

Active duty and younger vets seem more capable of seeing the bullshit than old vets.

I see a lot of vets against fascism springing up all over protest posts, and they seem to generally be somewhere between mid-20s to 40s.

Older ones, however, seem more rare, or generally just super MAGA.

Just my own anecdotal observations of what algorithms put on my feed

Also, one of the main reasons the Vietnam war ended was mass protests against it.

The war had become extremely unpopular in the USA.

Democracy in the digital age makes the atrocities of a country harder to hide from their domestic population than fascism, wouldn’t you agree?

My dude, ICE just got a budget that dwarfs the marines specifically to become Trump’s Gestapo and genocide force: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-funding-world-militaries-b2790466.html

And “isolated incidents”?

My dude, I want you to ask yourself, really ask yourself, were the rights of immigrants more compromised last year, or this year?

Did they have more of a legal framework to rely on to ensure their own safety and safety for their loved ones this year or last year?

We’re facilities being built en masse specifically for an unparalleled mass deportation campaign (which is how the Holocaust started BTW) last year or did that start this year?

Ask yourself, was the active president trying to normalize sending the military to confront protestors last year or this year?

Shit, don’t just ask yourself, ask immigrants. Ask scholars who specialize in the history of genocide.

You’re too hyper-focused on simple raw data while conveniently ignoring the context of the reality behind it, and your data isn’t even up to date for the current year who’s data would most be important to have for this conversation.

Not to mention the very likely discrepancy that people detained by ICE and sent to concentration camps are likely not gonna show up on data talking specifically about US prisons for US crimes. Especially when you consider THE VAST MAJORITY THAT ICE HAS KIDNAPPED HAVE NO CRIMINAL RECORD: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-ice-immigration-arrest-data-1.7584212

Why tf would they show up on that data?

Also, do you genuinely believe ICE when they report back that their victims are alive and ok, when 1.2k ARE FUCKING MISSING FROM ALLIGATOR AUSCHWITZ? Which we only know about because it was closed down for environmental regulations.

You have more police violence in the US, not more genocide.

Right, it’s just police violence that the US is

Building concentration camps: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-immigrant-detention-expansion-announced-map-2037263

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/29/michigan-ice-georgia-louisiana-prison

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5417980/private-prisons-and-local-jails-are-ramping-up-as-ice-detention-exceeds-capacity

Rounding up and dissapearing thousands:

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-04-10/about-90-of-migrants-sent-to-el-salvador-lacked-u-s-criminal-record

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/25/alligator_alcatraz

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5428568/ice-raids-la-fashion-district-immigration

https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-sudan-djibouti-deport-supreme-court-50f9162cff680b5c8729873e11d514e9

Total normal US police brutality. Nothing to see here. /s

Are you intentionally ignoring reality or do you frequently try to talk with people about important issues you clearly have no understanding or context to?

Prepare for it to esculate.

At least if we still had a democracy, it’d be easier to both spread the word and engage in meaningful protest to stop or severely hinder it domestically.

We don’t get that now. Nearly no mainstream media outlet has made mention of Venezuela until a Dem asked about it this week, and even so it ain’t getting the coverage it needs.