If this is such an aggressive and provocative thing to do, then why does the West constantly send its warships to China’s coast and into China’s territorial waters (Taiwan strait)?

Two can play at this game…

Fascist on fascist violence. You love to see it.

That’s how i feel right now sitting in the EU about Ne Zha 2. It’s like, here’s one movie that i actually don’t want to pirate, but i can’t pay to see it…it’s beyond stupid.

There are systemic barriers for China in this regard that occupied Korea doesn’t have to deal with. If Chinese media gets too big western countries can just decide to shut them out, ban them from entering the western media space, and they can apply pressure on non-Western countries to do so as well under the pretext that Chinese cinema is a vehicle for “CCP propaganda” (which is pure projection considering the incestuous relationship that Hollywood has with the US military industrial complex and its involvement with the liberal regime change industry).

I haven’t seen the second one yet, and i’m not sure when i will be able to since there is no announcement of it being released in Europe any time soon (thanks EU censorship!), but i have seen the first and i thought it was pretty good.

Some parts of the humor didn’t translate for me, perhaps it was targeted towards younger audiences, but the visuals were pretty cool for 2019 and they did some things in that regard that i don’t think i’ve seen western animation do so far.

I truly doubt they’d be stupid enough to try it, but i’d like to see the complete political chaos that would ensure if they did.

At the moment it doesn’t seem to matter much what the Ukrainian populace thinks or wants. Most of them don’t want the war to continue. They don’t want themselves or their children to be drafted. They don’t want Zelensky as president. Yet they have all those things and they can’t seem to do anything about it for the time being.

Geographically yes. By that logic Europe is involved either way because Russia is also part of Europe.

They’re turning the freaking frogs gay!

I think this is definitely part of some kind of retrenchment initiative: cut back on the imperial overextension, place the regime change machinery under more direct intelligence agency/state department control, and stop wasting resources on secondary fronts and instead focus on the main enemy which is China. However, in the meantime, the regime change apparatus is in considerable chaos during this transition period and a lot of things are coming to light that are helping to clean out some of the US’s various tentacles across the world. It is unclear whether the plan will succeed as they envisioned it or whether they have irreparably damaged the entire system with this sudden shock. For now i think anti-imperialists should see it as an opportunity, a temporary weakness that can be taken advantage of, but also staying wary of what the next step will be after they reorganize and recover from this chaotic reboot of the regime change machine.

Fuck it, cut the funding for everything! Hey conservatives, you say small government is good, you know what’s even better? Even smaller government. And it doesn’t get any smaller than no government. Just abolish the whole thing. Go full on ancap! Let the market decide. If the army can’t deliver a return on investment, let it go bankrupt! Navy? You’d get a better ROI turning those carriers into luxury cruise ships. If Congress can’t turn a profit, fire those lazy bums. Senate? More like Se-not! Presidency? Get out of here with that commie crap. Just have a CEO instead. CIA, FBI, NSA, ICE? Welfare queens! Time for them to earn their own living competing on the free market instead of mooching off the taxpayer dime. Pull themselves up by their bootstraps, maybe start a small business spying on unfaithful husbands for their wives. And definitely none of that woke NED or USAID garbage! Those foreigners can just regime change themselves from now on.

What countries did Russia attack or threaten to attack? It’s NATO that broke its promise over and over again to stop expanding to the east. It’s NATO that keeps taking over more and more countries to install missile bases pointed at Russia. It’s NATO that engineered a coup for Nazis to take over Ukraine, NATO who arms and funds those Nazis to bomb and murder Russians, and NATO who helps those Nazis commit terrorist attacks against Russian civilians. It’s NATO politicians who regularly talk of bleeding Russia, weakening Russia, inflicting a defeat on Russia, of regime changing Russia, even of breaking up Russia into a dozen different states.

They openly discuss at “summits” and conferences their desire to destroy Russia, and they are so shameless and arrogant that they think they can disguise this intent by abusing the term “decolonization”, even as Europe (which still to this day has colonial possessions it clings to) and the US are literally engaged in the neo-colonial exploitation and subjugation of most of the global south.

All this after the whole world saw how they bombed and destroyed Yugoslavia, how they bombed and destroyed Libya, how they bombed, occupied and starved Syria and then armed, funded and trained terrorists to take it over, and you have the audacity to come here and tell us that NATO doesn’t pose a threat to Russia? You say there is zero chance of another country attacking Russia, but NATO had already attacked Russia twice through proxies even before the shit NATO pulled in Ukraine in 2014. They attacked Russia through a US sponsored terrorist insurgency in Chechnya, and through a US instigated invasion by Georgia of South Ossetia (a conflict for which even an EU investigation admitted Georgia was the aggressor).

Not only is what Russia is doing self-defense, they are acting according to their humanitarian duty to protect the ethnic Russian people in Ukraine from genocide and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Banderite Nazi regime installed by NATO. They are doing in Ukraine what the world should be doing in occupied Palestine: liberating it from genocidal fascists.

I’ll tell you what seems ridiculous to me: for the world to tolerate the existence of such murderous Nazi regimes as Ukraine and “Israel” on this planet after the millions of people who died in WW2 to eradicate this vile ideology. NATO apparently has no problem with that (and we know why - because NATO was founded by Nazis and continues to include Nazis in its ranks who share the same dreams as Hitler did of eastward expansion into Russia), but Russia will not and cannot tolerate on its border the existence of a hyper-militarized Nazi regime that is hellbent on destroying everything Russian.

And before you try to deny that this is really a Nazi regime, here are some openly acknowledged facts:

NATO’s puppet regime in Kiev banned the Russian language, banned Russian media, banned pro-Russian political parties, imprisoned and murdered journalists and activists, burned Russian books, renamed Russian towns, destroyed Russian historical monuments, forced ethnic Russians to speak Ukrainian, renamed streets after WW2 Nazi collaborators, celebrated and declared as national heroes those Nazi collaborators and war criminals who sadistically butchered hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles, Russians and other Ukrainians.

They taught children in schools to hate Russians, trained children to repeat Nazi slogans, replaced historical school books with ones written by hate-filled nationalist extremists peddling revisionist history and lies about Russia and Ukraine in order to create enmity and hate between two brotherly peoples, they sent Nazi paramilitary thugs from western Ukraine with tanks and artillery to occupy and violently repress ethnic Russian regions that wanted autonomy and protection from all of this Nazi crap, and they relentlessly bombed the cities that they couldn’t occupy because the people there picked up arms and defended themselves… and that was all before 2022, before Russia finally intervened to protect the people of the Donbass.

I wouldn’t be so sure. For the French and the Poles it probably is more cynical than earnest, but when i hear how the Baltics or the Germans talk, i think they might actually be so deranged that they truly believe it. And the British elites have wanted to destroy Russia for nearly two hundred years now, nothing has changed there.

Once the war is over and Russia doesn’t do that, what will European leaders do? How will they justify everything they’ve done?

Quite easily actually: “The only reason why Russia hasn’t invaded us is because we showed them in Ukraine not to mess with us.” Or any of a thousand other variations of that sort of cope. There is always a way to spin the narrative so that a defeat looks like a victory, so that the lie can be maintained. It’s all too easy because Russia cannot disprove a negative no matter what they do. “Only if we do X, Y, Z will Russia not attack us.” - “See, Russia did not attack, and that is only because we did X, Y, Z; which proves that we were right all along and Russia would have attacked if we didn’t do X, Y, Z.” It’s impossible to falsify because it’s based on a hypothetical that didn’t happen.

If Russia scares you so much then maybe you shouldn’t have all but declared war on Russia? Maybe you shouldn’t have given billions of euros and heavy weaponry to Nazis for the sole purpose of killing Russians? Maybe instead of antagonizing and attacking Russia you should have tried getting along with them? Crazy concept, i know.

Yeah but those aren’t European. The topic was European alternatives, and i’d say Russia is sufficiently European to qualify. The EU is gonna disagree of course because they’re racist POS, but as they say, “fuck the EU”.

Seriously, is Traoré trying to become the reincarnation of Thomas Sankara? Cause damn that’s some based shit.

I mean…Sankara was murdered in '87…Traoré was born in '88…just saying…the timeline fits.

No but all jokes aside, he’s been awesome so far.

True. Though i’m a bit wary of some of these alternative platforms as well. Like i think i just read something about some top guy at Rumble becoming the new deputy director of the CIA? That doesn’t happen unless they were already deep in the intelligence apparatus, which makes you think…how many alternative platforms are similarly infiltrated?

What alternatives?

Oh, hey maybe if they ask nicely Russia will let them use VK.

The idea of suing the West for reparations is interesting…or maybe i should say amusing, because i doubt it will go anywhere with how much control the West has over international courts. And best case scenario, say they win, the US can always just refuse to pay. I mean can you see Trump ever paying Ukraine or any other country reparations if an international court orders him to? Never in a million years. And frankly i think the same goes for any US administration. They’d rather just pull out of any organizations or treaties that they’ve signed that would try to make them do something like that.

No, i think the simpler solution is for Ukraine to just default on their debt. In fact not even call it a default but simply declare that they just don’t recognize that debt - as far as the new government is concerned it never existed since it was taken on by an illegitimate regime. What’s the worst the West can do? Sanction them? The worst sanctions the West could impose would still be better than the only other alternative which is privatize and sell off literally everything and let the IMF run your country (which is what will happen if any kind of western controlled government remains in charge).