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The US has the 4th and 8th Psychological Operations Groups stationed at Ft. Bragg, and that’s just what’s acknowledged publicly.

The government is not a person so your rhetorical device is as nonsensical and irrelevant as your unsubstantiated character assassination. Moreover, a criminal organization can make no claims to ‘fairness’. Criminal governments are no different.

Is that why the amounts of 155mm artillery shells transferred to Ukraine have declined over time?

I have no idea who you are but evidently you say a lot of baseless or uninformed stuff if you recognize me

The strings attached to IMF/World Bank loans, known as structural adjustments, do typically include ending agricultural subsidies. The US and collective West notably do not subject themselves to the same policy. Coupled with structural adjustments which mandate market liberalization, this means farmers in developing countries have to compete against heavily subsidized food staples from the collective West. The end result of this is well understood.

Read the comments in this thread and others. See how many slack-jawed jackals are slavering over the idea of overthrowing Putin, ‘decolonizing’ Russia, Russia descending into anarchy, etc. These halfwits are merely echoing the myopic fantasies fed to them via the US media apparatus from the highest echelons of state power. Do you really think all these dark fantasies originated a year ago? Or is there maybe something else going on?

Russia has explicitly stated multiple times that they will use nuclear weapons in response to an existential threat, but you want to call their bluff?

Yeah there’s no way anyone could succeed Putin, such as Dmitry Medvedev, who works closely with him and already served as president and prime minister.

They formed and announced a defense pact with the independent Donbas republics, which Ukraine then continued to attack (shelling civilian areas, by the way). So Russia responded militarily in order to provide for the security of the republics in accordance with that agreement. They have not committed genocide whatsoever.

Has Russia made changes to its constitution illegally? That would be news to me. There is of course a strong argument that the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 was not constitutional based on the results of the referendum.

Without a binding constitution, there is no formal legal basis for a polity and people are free to do as they wish. E.g., join the Russian Federation or constitute themselves as an independent republic.

Are you disputing Russia’s position? It seems in line with the actions of the Ukrainians in the Donbas region since 2014.

Edit, can’t reply:

Russia’s position is that Crimea and Donbas republics had the right to secede due to the fact that Yanukovych was removed via illegal coup (organized by the US). Ukrainian sovereignty was forfeit when Yanukovych was removed despite insufficient parliamentary votes to do so according to the Ukrainian constitution. The Minsk agreements, meant to resolve these disputes, were not implemented, and now based on statements by European leaders we know they were never intended to be implemented.

US state-affiliated media

https://www.iri.org/news/national-endowment-for-democracy-ne...

Majority?

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7158

What’s the relevance of Ukraine?

It’s incredible that an illegitimate government can take over the entire country in ten days whereas the legitimate one wasn’t sustainable after twenty years of military and economic support.

It’s comical to call cargo ships a boondoggle when the US can currently produce no more than ten per year (of the non-nuclear variety).

I'm aware that China's economic collapse has been continuously predicted for the last 30 years, but they nevertheless continue to produce more and more real commodities and infrastructure. Of course that doesn't hold a candle to our services-rent-IP-speculation economy here in the US.

And how does unproductive activity enable one to purchase that energy on the global market?

How would that activity allow one to purchase ever greater quantities of energy imports?

This conspiracy theory would also have to account for what China is doing with all of the energy it's consuming (and how it's paying for this energy) if it's not manifesting as GDP.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/primary-energy-cons?tab=c...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-27/saudi-...

No deflection.

Because no evidence.

Chinese steel is beautiful.

Because it is perfect.

Are these tools all contemporaneous of each other and sold at the same price point? China will sell you anything you want. What most companies want today is planned obsolescence.

Well China has produced half of the steel in the world and half of the finished steel products for many years. I can't think of a rational reason to believe that all that steel is constantly snapping "like twigs."

https://worldsteel.org/steel-topics/statistics/world-steel-i...

It's junk based on what? Racial inferiority? Why feed stats to someone who isn't interested in reality?

You don’t think it’s relevant that the source is the primary funder and arms provider of one side of this conflict?

It’s not, statistically. But don’t let me stop you from clinging to ignorance.

You're wrong.

Anshan Iron and Steel: https://www.steelorbis.com/steel-news/latest-news/ansteel-co...

Panzhihua Iron and Steel: https://news.metal.com/newscontent/101439663/The-exclusive-s...

Baotou Iron and Steel: http://innermongolia.chinadaily.com.cn/baotou/2020-01/03/c_4...

Wuhan Iron and Steel: https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/WUHAN-IRON-AND-ST...

Handan Iron and Steel: https://www.gneesteel.com/news/industry-news/hbis-successful...

They built the largest high speed rail network in the world in less than 20 years.

That organization is funded by the US government.

https://www.iri.org/news/national-endowment-for-democracy-ne...