Biden is a lame duck president with NO PUBLIC MANDATE and subterranean approval rating, he got ousted by his own party before the election for being mentally incapacitated, his defense against a Justice Department inquiry is he’s too old and senile, his party just got BTFO in a national election. No NATO or NATO proxies have ever launched long range missiles into Russia in living memory. How is this guy fit for office

STOP EATING CRAYONS AND DO YOUR FUCKING JERB. “Senile old man sends young people to WW3 out of spite”

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now with added North Korean soldiers sent by their dictator

  1. Kim Jong Un is not a dictator. Again you show that you have no clue. Just vibes.

  2. No statement by the DPRK or Russia regarding the matter. You base your assessment on rumors spread by the ukrainian government. The ones who made up the Ghost of Kiev. Told the world that the seperatists were shelling themselves. That Russia shelled itself in a nuclear plant. That Russia had lost 500000 soldiers and was sending in human waves armed with shovels.

You never stopped and thought: “Wait, that is not a reliable source!”

Western press told you that was the truth, so you took their word for it. Because when was the last time the west lied? Aside from Iraq, Lybia, Syria, Xinjiang region, Vietnam, Korea, the USSR, China in general, Communism in general, Ukraine, Palestine, etc.

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Bush and Trudeau confirmed dictators.

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Dafuq, are you unwell?

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claims that firing ballistic missiles somehow escalates this conflict aren’t well thought out

It escalates the conflict because under Russian law it puts Russia directly at war with NATO and opens up more spheres of conflict. The Russians will most certainly retaliate, likely by sending weapons to anti-western groups.

without World War 3 breaking out

Yes, I doubt this will on its own cause ww3. But playing with fire is dangerous either way.

they’ve been firing those at high value targets in Russia from day one of getting invaded

Russia is already at ear with Ukraine. The Ukrainians firing at Russia with their own weapons is thus not an escalation.

since Russia is still attempting to conquer Ukraine

No it is not and it never was. Everybody knew from day 1 that conquering and holding to all of Ukraine would be infeasible and the war was actually about NATO expansion.

North Korean soldiers sent by their dictator

Pure ideology. Just speculation. It wouldn’t even be an escalation if this were happening because the western fascists have been sending over their mercenaries and troops to Ukraine for the past 10 years.

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I find that doubtful. They went for Kyiv during the first month of war. If you go for the largest city and the capital, that typically is a conquest.

Yes they went for Kiev to topple the government of Ukraine and force a quick surrender, as has been their stated aim. It does not mean there would be any possibility of conquering Ukraine and holding it by the Russians.

The prevailing opinion seems to be that Ukraine was attacked by Russia in 2022 and before that, parts of Ukraine were seized by Russia in 2014.

You appear to be forgetting about the maidan coup, the shelling of donbass and the arming of Ukraine by nato, all of which the Russians have said threaten their national security since Ukraine is literally at their border.

imaginary bunch of “western fascists”.

Y’all are commiting a livestreamed genocide in gaza and have slaughtered tens of millions of people at the altars of capitalism since the end of ww2. No need to imagine western fascism.

hard boiled imperialist

When will liberals learn what imperialism is? When we say “we oppose imperialism” we mean that we want to destroy the transnational system of capitalist superexploitation of the world’s natural resources and labour by a handful of “first world” nations. Not “we want to reify nations and nation states”.

He decided that Ukraine must be under Russia’s control.

As opposed to the Americans, who don’t want Ukraine under American control, who haven’t been buying up Ukrainian capital assets for dirt cheap for 30 years now.

The revolution which Yanukovich accidentally provoked was inconvenient to him, so he decided to start military action. Seeing that the West was using toothless sanctions and harsh words, he decided to go all in - but miscalculated. His yes-men said they could do it, but they couldn’t.

I bet my left testicle on you not having read even a single word that came out of the mouth of any member of the Russian leadership and instead just making up all of this headcannon and fan fiction based on nothing.

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congress is doing its job: making money off of military company insider trading

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Who cares.

It’s a weapon that Ukraine has, they’re at war, it’s not a nuke, it ethically doesn’t matter whether they made it themselves or received it as a gift*, of course they’re going to shoot it at a target in the country that destroyed their infrastructure and turned part of their countryside into a no-man’s-land and is occupying places they lived just 3 years ago.

If you wanna get mad at American weapons being used overseas in illegal wars, there are plenty being dropped on defenseless people, out of Israeli aircraft, every single day.

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Ukraine isn’t using it, American personnel are. This is America shooting missiles directly at Russia, qualitatively changing the conflict from a proxy war to a direct war.

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Ukraine isn’t using it, American personnel are. This is America shooting missiles directly at Russia, qualitatively changing the conflict from a proxy war to a direct war.

Copying this out because you’re known to move the goalposts and ignore anytime it gets pointed out.

Ukrainian military personnel are not firing the missiles? American personnel deployed in Ukraine are? Or are American personnel firing the rockets from a NATO base? Either way, you’re saying that the article and its details are a total fabrication- no “authorization” would need to be given to Ukraine if it were American personnel firing the rockets.

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Yes American personnel are the only ones who can operate this technology. It is Joe Biden pushing the button to launch a close range missile strike into Russia. Sorry you love imperialists so much you refuse to accurately describe them, but that’s a you problem.

NATO personnel are also operating Patriot SAMs and other NATO equipment throughout Ukraine. If you doubt this you are beyond naive

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The reason this is a big deal is because Russia is the 3rd biggest military in the world, and Ukraine would not be able to strike Russian territory with long range missiles unless the USA intervened. This creates a potential casus belli between Russia and the USA and if Russia chooses to ignore it then it sets the conditions for additional escalation of the threat against Russian national security. It’s not a moral issue.

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If you see a problem with a country being able to respond, in kind, to attacks by a state actor against it, then you do not stand for emancipation or egalitarianism.

(Yes, I know history didn’t start in 2022. There is an undeniable discontinuous shift in the nature of the conflict at that point though.)

Russia has been fully aware of the dynamics of supply between Ukraine and the USA, all along. Nothing has changed besides rockets that can go somewhat farther. If it’s not a nuke and not a military alliance, it doesn’t draw more powers in, it just makes the war more costly.

When one does a special military operation on another country’s undisputed territory, one accepts that there might be a counter-operation.

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If you see a problem with a country being able to respond, in kind, to attacks by a state actor against it, then you do not stand for emancipation or egalitarianism.

States. Do. Not. Have. Rights. This should go without saying on this site. The actions of the gov’t of Ukraine, or more relevantly of the United States in support of Ukraine, are justified only insofar as they are beneficial to actual human beings. Risking escalation here pretty clearly fails that criterion. The situation on the ground right now is that the front has been largely stagnant for 2 years, and the incoming US admin has little appetite for continuing the conflict. This is an opportunity for a negotiated end to the war, not a time to be blowing things up even further. This isn’t “emancipating” Ukrainians, it’s just extending death and destruction in a moment where there’s a real path towards winding it down.

When one does a special military operation on another country’s undisputed territory, one accepts that there might be a counter-operation.

Sure, and if we’re fortunate, the Russians have accepted that possibility and will get over it. On the other hand, by sending American missiles to be fired on another country’s undisputed territory, America accepts that there might be a counter-operation. Do you trust either Biden or Trump to be the adult in the room and accept that if Russia starts using it as justification for attacks on Americans?

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You are ignoring that this is proxy war, and by so doing you are confusing the entire perspective.

If this was not a proxy war, Russia would invade Ukraine because Ukraine took unilateral action to threaten Russia’s national security.

In such a situation, the USA would not be sending the equivalent of the entire Russian military budget to Ukraine. Russia would stop Ukraine from its unilateral action and the war would end.

Instead, we have the US acting through NATO acting through Ukraine threatening Russian national security. Russia attacks Ukraine not because of Ukraine’s unilateral action but because of the actions of the USA through Ukraine as a proxy. This proxy war remains a proxy war so long as the USA does not act against Russia directly. If the USA acts against Russia directly it becomes a direct military conflict between Russia and the USA.

The USA is salami slicing this conflict, attempting to find the point at which it can no longer the escalate the threat to Russia without Russian retaliation.

Ukrainian emancipation was truncated by the right-wing color revolution that was managed by the USA. Russia’s invasion has nothing to do with Ukrainian sovereignty and everything to do with Ukraine being a proxy of the West.

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“Both the imperialists and anti-imperialists are bad! If you don’t like escalating imperialism then why do you support anti-imperialists??!”

I’m so tired of you western chauvinists in leftoid clothing

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The modern Holocaust the US government is committing in Gaza doesn’t have anything to do with whether the Banderite neonazi regime they installed in Ukraine is bad.

Before this war kicked off properly they were regularly shelling and sending Nazi death squads after civilians, why would you not be mad at that? Why would you want them to be able to remotely bomb civilians in Russia?

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Posting any Russia related news outside the news mega really brings out all the chauvinist shitheads on this site don’t it?

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Don’t you have a cave to crawl back to from last year or so, where you can celebrate bloodshed of civilians without contagion?

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It just falls into the rest of the umbrella of “war is war” to me. There’s nothing wrong with a war being two-sided.

Ukrainians are already the victims of weapons like this. Russian authorities have already targeted apartment buildings and other civilian targets, including knocking out water and electricity for millions. Half or more of the Ukrainian people are going to be plunged into poverty for decades, because of geopolical forces they can’t control.

Sure, defending the Donbass is good. But that doesn’t make this a black-and-white conflict, and certainly doesn’t mean 20 million people should suffer because the pro-peace candidate they supported (cf. Poroshenko) was twisted onto the warpath.

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So your response is to support the actions of the imperialists? This is where you ultras always go fully off the rails. You get so wrapped up in your purity you somehow manage to spin it around to support the US again, what a coincidence

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should’ve not killed civilians in Donbass

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That has the same energy as “they shouldn’t have voted for Trump”.

Collective punishment is bad but if it’s going to happen, it’s better for it to not be unilateral. Plus, it’s unlikely that Ukraine uses the weapons on anything other than a strategically useful military target.

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Your dipshittery here is going off the charts

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Plus, it’s unlikely that Ukraine uses the weapons on anything other than a strategically useful military target.

Ukronazi regime in fact uses every weapon they can, even the scarce and expensive missiles for terror attacks on civilians, and every future weapon they will get will be also used in the same way. Plenty of examples here and here.

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@infuziSporg@hexbear.net @TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net

Fyi you two have both reported each other recently. I don’t have the energy to sift through your threads and come up with some judgement of who is right or wrong, but I welcome others to do so.

In the meantime, take the fact that both of you are reporting one another as a sign to disengage.

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Collective punishment is bad

Yeah, agreed

but if it’s going to happen, it’s better for it to not be unilateral.

Are you saying it would be better if multiple parties decided which groups should be collectively punished, or that it’s better for Russian civilians to suffer collective punishment than for them not to because of collateral damage during the current war between Russia and Ukraine?

Plus, it’s unlikely that Ukraine uses the weapons on anything other than a strategically useful military target.

What would possibly make you feel this way?

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Ok

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Pretty bold to openly call for ethnic cleansing in the Donbass, Adolf

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Donbass would’ve been better if Gorbashev and Yeltsin were hanged

also mf how does a separatist occupy their land? that doesn’t make sense

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They would’ve been better off if the Nazi-led Ukraine coup hadn’t happened in 2014.

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Absolutely contrary to my point- you can idi na hui.

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If you wanna get mad at American weapons being used overseas in illegal wars, there are plenty being dropped on defenseless people, out of Israeli aircraft, every single day.

Porque no los dos?

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Porque no cambiará casi nada en la guerra en Ucraina, el pueblo ruso ya puede defenderse, no creo que las fuerzas rusas tienen el derecho único u especial para lanzar bombas hacia ciudades y bases ucrainas.

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You have to understand, Joe just really likes genocide and nuclear annihilation is the biggest genocide there is

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“Since Biden is a lame duck and the Republicans are about to take control anyway, I sure wish he’d just use his power to solve global warming once and for all!”

Monkey’s Paw curls

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If we have nuclear winter and wipe out humanity global warming will be solved

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Sentinel Island Natives full on

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Unfortunately they’re definitely fucked, there’s already been decades of overfishing in the Andaman Islands

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