American Imperial Decline vs. Roman Imperial Decline

[topcat]

Lads please, I did a google search on that and the very first thing that came up about it was this interview with Tucker Carlson, the guy who's own lawyers argued "surely no reasonable person would believe anything this man would say" in order to try get him off the conspiracy theories he was spreading. I'm not exactly motivated to give that one any more thought!!!

Disinfo: USAID financed Ukraine's 2014 Maidan protests with a $5 billion investment

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Before we start throwing hour long youtube videos our direction, tell me does that video even address the assertion made by Chase... that Russia goaded Russia into attacking Ukraine... that Putin was manipulated into attacking Ukraine by Biden??!! That's the actual assertion that you seem to be backing up. Where's the evidence on that? It's not like there's no professors out there pointing out how the Ukraine invasion was illegal.

I would suggest that you and tomcat whether you two actually agree on everything. For example 9/11 conspiracies, global warming, whether the Titanic was sunk deliberately, vaccines, etc. You might not agree on everything!

Maybe also ask yourself if you also believed the lies Alex Jones was spreading 5 years back.

the videos i sent you are from mainstream and original sources. “from the horses mouth”.

But the problem is that if ppl who believe u are questioned on why they believe it, all they're left with to say is "somebody on the internet said it". So no point in saying it unless you're willing to go a step further with it.

You're indirectly implying the usual "don't believe the mainstream media" trope.

It was directly in response to your comment here.

 

[Conquistador]

Oh please you're not peddling conspiracy theories too!? The only true claim there (which I'm already aware of) is the one is the one you provided a link for. And that was in reaction to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.

The "US goaded Russia into attacking Ukraine"! Oh man, I'd genuinely like to know more about why people believe that. You obviously expect people here to just believe it because it's you. But the problem is that if ppl who believe u are questioned on why they believe it, all they're left with to say is "somebody on the internet said it". So no point in saying it unless you're willing to go a step further with it.

You're indirectly implying the usual "don't believe the mainstream media" trope.

Funny enough I was just last week having a chat with someone close to the chargé in Kyiv at the time, who augmented my already fairly detailed knowledge of the processes involved. The full story is complex, but suffice it to say that the US was more intimately involved in the Maidan than has been officially disclosed, although key policymakers likely did not fully understand what they were getting into in terms of Ukraine’s internal divisions and what Russia was prepared to do in response. There was major discontent in Crimea (almost entirely Russophone and heavily right-wing) and elsewhere. Russia stepped in and took measures not relatively much more radical than it had in other post-Soviet conflict zones. When the Kyiv government was about to successfully quell the Donbas uprisings, Putin sent spetsnaz and later regular line units in to save the rebels’ butts. Subsequently the conflict was frozen.

The key here is that although there is major continuity between 2014 and 2022, there were some fundamental shifts within the Kremlin and with Putin himself that are underappreciated.

 

[Chase]

Before we start throwing hour long youtube videos our direction, tell me does that video even address the assertion made by Chase... that the US goaded Russia into attacking Ukraine... that Putin was manipulated into attacking Ukraine by Biden??!!

Sheesh.

Just go and marry Victoria Nuland already if you love her approach to geopolitics so much

@Dash of Englishness probably doesn't even know who she is or how she architected the Euromaidan -- i.e., overthrow of Ukrainian democracy -- picked the puppet they installed after, and started the Ukraine-Russia war... in 2014. FYI, 14,000 soldiers and civilians were already dead before Russia invaded in 2022. The war began in 2014. Everyone knows Ukraine is a US proxy state, used for fighting Russia indirectly since a hot war between the US and Russia risks going nuclear; then the whole world burns. Dash of Englishness, are you typing this from 2022? Take a time machine to the present, bro!