LOCDOWN

4y

Buddy on that 2005 Bill Cosby flow

Nessy

4y

lib watching the news: explain in 1930 germany terms

LOCDOWN

4y

I'm self employed lmaoooo everybody not me

Maartins

4y

For the trains i think the rationale is africans “taking up space”

At the border it might be a more bureaucratic issue. I.e ukranian passport vs international student visa

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Well u obv not educated urself what's ur excuse then nigga

americana

4y

Crazy how people are trying to rationalize people espousing propaganda and misinformation by saying that “they don’t have the time to find real information”

Sufi

4y

conservatives had a wildly different tone when it came to refugees from the ME

Dedication 666

4y

You are right people need to do their own research and not fall for Russian propaganda.

Maartins

4y

African folk are deeply trusting but that’s what gets us

I knew there was a huge african community in eastern europe that goes there as students in order to get a somewhat better education, I also knew before war that they faced deep racism and abuse

I just really thought that you know in a war these people would act like you know…humans

But it’s all the same strain of human evil. What causes a powerful country to needlessly invade another and take peoples lives is the same s*** that perpetuates this. Exact same through line

Dedication 666

4y

You are right people need to do their own research and not fall for Russian propaganda.

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Privileged university kid meanwhile im a 2nd gen immgrant from a single parent household, i am in university tho not my fault u too dumb to get in lol

IceTrain

4y

This nigga think anything that paints Putin in a bad light is propaganda so you already know he arguing in bad faith.

omgcrine

4y

i said that you sound like that --- not that you are actually a privileged university kid lol

iam not dumb - i majored in fine arts... my iq is 150 (tesla vibes fr)... when i was 10 they let me skip 5 classes so i was in class with kids 5 years older than me becuz i was swagging too hard

iam an artistic genius not dumb

americana

4y

i hope this is ironic

omgcrine

4y

this is all factual statements

Sufi

4y

conservatives had a wildly different tone when it came to refugees from the ME

Scratchin Mamba

4y

(part of this post copied from my earlier post itt)

It was always clear that Putin was a Russian nationalist who had a lot of nostalgia for the Russian empire. He always criticized Lenin for giving nations that were part of the Czarist empire like Ukraine too much autonomy and giving republics in the USSR the right to secede.

Right now it, Putin isn't gonna annex all of Ukraine, he's gonna install a puppet leader and probably integrate the republics of the Donbass into the Russian Federation eventually, unless there will be diplomacy and a neutrality agreement with Ukraine.

Then there's also NATO, which is a military alliance that was formed in case that the West would possibly ever have to go to war with Russia during the cold war. Article 5 says that if one NATO member is attacked, it's regarded as an attack against all NATO members.

With the taking down of the Berlin wall, the US promised to Gorbachev would not move "one inch forward" to the East. A promise that has not been held as many other Eastern European countries have joined NATO.

The reason Ukrainian NATO membership is such a threat is that Ukraine is right at their borders. The black sea fleet in the Crimea was Russia's only fleet that was available year round, which is why they annexed the Crimea in 2014 after the US-backed coup in Ukraine, because they would lose access to that fleet which they see as crucial for their security.

In addition, Ukraine has also hinted at "liberating" (ie invading) the Crimea, if Ukraine does that as a NATO member, it's essentially the same as entirety of the West invading the Crimea, as Putin said here:

So that's why Putin is trying to prevent this, he's taking it very far and taking a by any means necessary approach to it. Combine that with his attitudes about the Russian empire, and it's not a total surprise that he would want to do this to prevent what he regards as a region part of the Russian empire joining a hostile military alliance, but it is surprising that he's willing to face the repercussions that this will bring for Russia, which will be a lot.

americana

4y

Crazy how people are trying to rationalize people espousing propaganda and misinformation by saying that “they don’t have the time to find real information”