well sure that's part of it, but a bigger part is saying to tyrants 'no, you cannot use force to invade and take over smaller nations. That is not acceptable so don't try it.'
If we had let RU have UKR that would open the gates for other tyrants to do the same to their neighbors. The whole world would suffer at that point. We are trying to head off that situation, nip it in the bud.
The specific circumstances are different of course, but the principle of self-determination is not.
It's also true that the U.S. has failed in this ideal both domestically and abroad, but self-determination is the fundamental ideal.
Provided the US agrees with the side that's in charge of the "self-determination".
If the US disagrees it will work to topple the government and install a government it likes or it will outright invade.
Russia has kept the gates open on the dam in order to degrade Ukraine's water supplies and raise levels of the Dnirpo to the south to make crossing more difficult for Ukraine. Ukraine has been trying to restore levels to the Kakhovka Reservoir to prevent the degradation of the water supply in the reservoir as Russia has caused the levels to reach record lows. Spring rains with snow melt combined with Ukraine's efforts to rescue the reservoir from record lows are why levels have risen recently. Ukraine desperately needs the water in the reservoir for agriculture and drinking water. The timing of the rising levels makes it clear that the Russians were intending to swamp the lower Dnipro to stymie the Ukraine counteroffensive.
Russia is using a dam it controls to release water from Ukraine's massive Kakhovka Reservoir. It's one of dozens of cases where the war is limiting access to safe water.
That statement, like most statements you make without a shred of evidence, is false.
If you think there's no money in war and that the war lobby has no influence on policy you're an absolute fool.
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Another moment when he doesn't realize he's turned into Hanoi Jane.
These Russia-lovers are hilarious coming in here all neo-Marxist lecturing us on the evils of the profit motive and believing their platitudes are something profound.
The specific circumstances are different of course, but the principle of self-determination is not.
It's also true that the U.S. has failed in this ideal both domestically and abroad, but self-determination is the fundamental ideal.
Provided the US agrees with the side that's in charge of the "self-determination".
If the US disagrees it will work to topple the government and install a government it likes or it will outright invade.
have to say adult is being brave here - he'd be fired in an instant from teaching at one of these colleges in Florida where DeSantis only lets pro-American teachers be on the faculty.
Kudos, Adult. Breaking from your right wing herd. Walking with the Democrats!
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If you think there's no money in war and that the war lobby has no influence on policy you're an absolute fool.
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Another moment when he doesn't realize he's turned into Hanoi Jane.
These Russia-lovers are hilarious coming in here all neo-Marxist lecturing us on the evils of the profit motive and believing their platitudes are something profound.
I don't give a damn about Russia I'm just not a mindless sheep like yourself who's been swept up in pretending you give a flying f*ck about Ukraine.
The war was provoked by the west for PROFIT whether you think it's "profound" or not.
Ukraine cannot win. The ONLY reason to spend hundreds of billions of US tax dollars to prolong a doomed cause is to make money.
Provided the US agrees with the side that's in charge of the "self-determination".
If the US disagrees it will work to topple the government and install a government it likes or it will outright invade.
have to say adult is being brave here - he'd be fired in an instant from teaching at one of these colleges in Florida where DeSantis only lets pro-American teachers be on the faculty.
Kudos, Adult. Breaking from your right wing herd. Walking with the Democrats!
Everything you think you know is literally a caricature of reality.
Another moment when he doesn't realize he's turned into Hanoi Jane.
These Russia-lovers are hilarious coming in here all neo-Marxist lecturing us on the evils of the profit motive and believing their platitudes are something profound.
I don't give a damn about Russia I'm just not a mindless sheep like yourself who's been swept up in pretending you give a flying f*ck about Ukraine.
The war was provoked by the west for PROFIT whether you think it's "profound" or not.
Ukraine cannot win. The ONLY reason to spend hundreds of billions of US tax dollars to prolong a doomed cause is to make money.
We get it. YOU don't care about Ukraine. Fortunately, you don't speak for the majority of people in the US, who do care about Ukraine and support continued US support for Ukraine.
I don't care about YOU. Hence, any negative repercussions that YOU experience from the US defending Ukraine aren't my problem. I'm doing just fine, and will continue to do just fine if the US continues to support Ukraine.
I would much prefer my tax dollars go to Ukraine than you.
I don't give a damn about Russia I'm just not a mindless sheep like yourself who's been swept up in pretending you give a flying f*ck about Ukraine.
The war was provoked by the west for PROFIT whether you think it's "profound" or not.
Ukraine cannot win. The ONLY reason to spend hundreds of billions of US tax dollars to prolong a doomed cause is to make money.
We get it. YOU don't care about Ukraine. Fortunately, you don't speak for the majority of people in the US, who do care about Ukraine and support continued US support for Ukraine.
I don't care about YOU. Hence, any negative repercussions that YOU experience from the US defending Ukraine aren't my problem. I'm doing just fine, and will continue to do just fine if the US continues to support Ukraine.
I would much prefer my tax dollars go to Ukraine than you.
You don't care about Ukraine either.
The majority of people in the US have no idea where Ukraine is.
You're not doing just fine at all. You're miserable and angry. Poor guy.
Just now heard Biden.........we will support Ukraine, Not good for Russia, no way the west lets these idiot thugs win anything. Now it's get back Crimea.
Another moment when he doesn't realize he's turned into Hanoi Jane.
These Russia-lovers are hilarious coming in here all neo-Marxist lecturing us on the evils of the profit motive and believing their platitudes are something profound.
I don't give a damn about Russia I'm just not a mindless sheep like yourself who's been swept up in pretending you give a flying f*ck about Ukraine.
The war was provoked by the west for PROFIT whether you think it's "profound" or not.
Ukraine cannot win. The ONLY reason to spend hundreds of billions of US tax dollars to prolong a doomed cause is to make money.
You couldn't find Ukraine on a map, and now you are in here bloviating like some throwback hippie about the perils of capitalism.
You've been used and had. Pro-Russian media specifically targets people with minds like yours because they know you are highly susceptible to certain propaganda and ideas. Look what they did to your comrade Lolly. He was probably normal once, but then they turned him into a Twidiot blithering on about Nazis all day and night. The same is going to happen to you with all the America-hating nonsense they stuffed into your head.
I don't give a damn about Russia I'm just not a mindless sheep like yourself who's been swept up in pretending you give a flying f*ck about Ukraine.
The war was provoked by the west for PROFIT whether you think it's "profound" or not.
Ukraine cannot win. The ONLY reason to spend hundreds of billions of US tax dollars to prolong a doomed cause is to make money.
You couldn't find Ukraine on a map, and now you are in here bloviating like some throwback hippie about the perils of capitalism.
You've been used and had. Pro-Russian media specifically targets people with minds like yours because they know you are highly susceptible to certain propaganda and ideas. Look what they did to your comrade Lolly. He was probably normal once, but then they turned him into a Twidiot blithering on about Nazis all day and night. The same is going to happen to you with all the America-hating nonsense they stuffed into your head.
Corrupt politicians creating an unnecessary war to enrich themselves and their donors has nothing to do with capitalism.
If I hated America I would be on your side demanding we send even more than the hundreds of BILLIONS of US tax dollars we've already flushed down the toilet in Ukraine.
have to say adult is being brave here - he'd be fired in an instant from teaching at one of these colleges in Florida where DeSantis only lets pro-American teachers be on the faculty.
Kudos, Adult. Breaking from your right wing herd. Walking with the Democrats!
Everything you think you know is literally a caricature of reality.
Erik Wallenberg, a visiting professor at the New College of Florida and a detractor of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' efforts to take over the state's higher educational system, was unceremoniously removed, leaving the campus without a professor that teaches U.S. history, the Miami New Times reported this week.
"Though he'd been an outspoken critic of New College's recent anti-'woke' overhaul, the axing of his teaching position made little sense to Wallenberg from an academic standpoint," reported Naomi Feinstein. "'The social sciences department had been supportive of his planned return for another year, he had received positive student evaluations, and he had just published an American history research paper."
I don't give a damn about Russia I'm just not a mindless sheep like yourself who's been swept up in pretending you give a flying f*ck about Ukraine.
The war was provoked by the west for PROFIT whether you think it's "profound" or not.
Ukraine cannot win. The ONLY reason to spend hundreds of billions of US tax dollars to prolong a doomed cause is to make money.
We get it. YOU don't care about Ukraine. Fortunately, you don't speak for the majority of people in the US, who do care about Ukraine and support continued US support for Ukraine.
I don't care about YOU. Hence, any negative repercussions that YOU experience from the US defending Ukraine aren't my problem. I'm doing just fine, and will continue to do just fine if the US continues to support Ukraine.
I would much prefer my tax dollars go to Ukraine than you.
like it or not, guys like Adult have been around since the nation started. They'd hand Europe over to Hitler or Stalin, Vietnam and Korea to China or the USSR, etc.
They are a part of American history.
History has taught us not to listen too hard to them.
You couldn't find Ukraine on a map, and now you are in here bloviating like some throwback hippie about the perils of capitalism.
You've been used and had. Pro-Russian media specifically targets people with minds like yours because they know you are highly susceptible to certain propaganda and ideas. Look what they did to your comrade Lolly. He was probably normal once, but then they turned him into a Twidiot blithering on about Nazis all day and night. The same is going to happen to you with all the America-hating nonsense they stuffed into your head.
Deno, the regular letsrun moran. Please let us know what institution for the retarded is taking care of you, so we know where not to donate.
