The “separatists” were the Russian troops

Nope, it was even before GRU war criminal Igor Girkin became Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

Vice News Dispatch which I suggest watching

From Wikipedia:

“The Daily Telegraph reported that some locals thought that most of the between five and twenty people killed were innocent civilians”

“The troops moving out of the city shot at unarmed civilians, according to The Guardian.”

“Anna Neistat from Human Rights Watch stated “my preliminary findings suggest that Ukrainian units might indeed have used excessive force near the drama theater, which resulted in deaths and injuries of some unarmed people” and urged a full, thorough investigation.”

The civilians even shown their passports which provided proof that they were not Russian.

If you want, I can PM you footage of said massacre where Ukraine shot into a crowd of unarmed civilians.

Also the majority of DPR and LPR forces were locals. People like to quote Girkin who stated that the War in the Donbas would not have happened without him but they forget the rest of the quote. Girkin was stating that the separatists would have been crushed without the intelligence and weapons he provided them naming Mariupol as an example where the anti-Maidan movement got crushed as the unarmed civilians had no support and got gunned down by the AFU. He never said that he was the one who caused the unrest, only that it would have gotten crushed without his weapons and intelligence. Outside of volunteers from Russia or Crimea, the actual Russian Armed Forces did not participate outside of providing weapons and intelligence in any significant number until 2015 when DPR and LPR forces were being pushed back leading to Russia sending BTGs into Ukraine.

Clearly yet more tax cuts for the oligarchs is more important than the health of the American people.

I see, you are one of those non delusional types, sorry for those assumptions.

The problem isn’t the two party or one party system. Both provide stability. The problem is the lack of the separation of powers.

The position of General Secretary allowed Stalin to appoint his allies into key positions without any vote from the other factions of the government.

I will admit what occurred under Gorbachev is very similar to what is occurring under the US with Yeltsin essentially being Russia’s Trump who appealed to Russian nationalism and who claimed that he will make Russia great again by getting rid of what he viewed as welfare queens that was the other Soviet republics and getting rid of Soviet authority. But I would also like to point out that the CPSU would have been capable of fighting off this Russian “trumpist” if it wasn’t for the August Coup which deteriorated the CPSU’s authority giving the Soviet government no means to fight back against right-wing nationalism.

Another problem was that Gorbachev did allow some independents to run for government meaning democracy was not kept within the party where factions would have been able to unite against a right wing nationalist.

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I mean look at Zelenskyy and Ahmed al-Sharaa, they wear the same green shirt!

I am somewhat glad that people’s opinions on Ukraine are slowly changing, I mean back in 2014, months after maidan revolution, they sent troops into Mariupol where they gunned down pro-separatist protestors on film (with even western media noting this) with one even on his knees with hands up and yet people still act like Ukraine is an example of democracy that needs to be safeguarded when in reality, it is only yet another banana republic created to serve America’s interests.

I personally recommend a system where there are multi candidate elections but all candidates have to be part of the same party. This will essentially turn the socialist party into a big tent party albeit the party will have the single goal of progressing towards socialism. Factions in the party will essentially act as a miniature parliament as factions could also create coalitions between each other.

There are two times this happened.

The Early USSR before Stalin took power with there being the right wing of the party who advocated for a market socialist economy and the continuation of voluntary collectivization, the center wing of the party (Stalin’s faction) who advocated for a centrally planned economy and forced collectivization, and finally the left wing of the party who were Trotskyists. There was nothing necessarily wrong with system except that Stalin was given a position which had too much power. The position of General Secretary was too powerful to exist in any democratic government and allowed him to destroy the separation of powers between the different factions (similar to what Trump is doing).

Late USSR under Gorbachev who allowed multi candidate elections albeit almost all candidates had to be party of the CPSU but failed because of the deterioration of the authority of the CPSU caused by the August Coup which strengthened the authority of the government of the RSFSR which was controlled by Yeltsin and friends who destroyed the USSR in support for Russian nationalism (they didn’t want Russia to subsidize its poorer republics and wanted Russia out of the CPSU/Soviet government’s authority).

It keeps the bad opinions out while keeping flexibility when it comes to socialist policies and allows proper discussions relating how to manage a socialist economy, workers rights, and social laws, etc.

A big problem that faces the transgender movement is just how uneducated people are about them.

I used to be against all that for the same reasons that conservatives are such as being fed misinformation regarding say puberty blockers when in reality, they are quite safe and I believed this nonsense until I received a major ass reaming.

To each their own.

And people wondered why the Democrats lost the election?

How about one party, the Communist Party USA and multiple opinions.

Perhaps he is attempting to appeal to his ex wife whom ditched him for Donald Trump Jr.

Gavin Newsom also set his own state on fire, literally.

Gavin Newsom also had an affair with his own campaign manager‘s wife resulting in said campaign manager resigning from his position.

Atleast it ain’t bad as X, first thing you see is Holocaust denialism, yikes.

That or use his Sovereign Wealth Fund* idea similar to how Alaska uses theirs and make it a basic UBI program. Unfortunately, this is Trump we are speaking of so he will just pocket everything instead.

*Sovereign Wealth Fund in a country with significant debt? Very interesting, lets see how it plays out

It sure are growing pains, the thing that is growing however isn’t the economy but inequality.

Personally, I think it would be better to keep Amtrak majority state owned and throw billions of dollars at it. In fact, why not send out a $3 trillion stimulus package to get some Jobs going?

While I would not mind increased automation and use of AI in workplaces, using them in call centers for social security is beyond stupid.

Edit: unpopular opinion I guess, fair enough.

The foolish orangutan wants to have Iraq on America’s doorstep.

As Critical Magazine states

“Invading Mexico to wipe out the cartels would effectively jettison everything America learned from our mistakes in the War on Terror. It would be costly, both in lives and treasure. It would be deeply unpopular — and it would fail.”

“For starters, the cartels are not mere gangs. The cartels effectively control chunks of Mexico and are in many ways ingrained into society there. They are not a separate external growth which can be lasered off with a well-aimed cruise missile: the infection has spread throughout the body. Wiping out the cartels would require our soldiers going door to door, house to house, waging war. This is not to even mention the massive cost of such an attack. A Harvard study found that the total cost of the Iraq War was about $3 trillion; we have no reason to think Mexico would be cheaper.”

As some guy on the internet stated:

“There are mountains in Mexico as tough as Afghanistan. Mexicans taking to the hills, like the Afghans, would give the US a constant headache until the Americans are thrown out. Remember, like the US, Mexico started as an insurgency. Every. Single. Mexican conflict has been asymmetrical guerilla warfare (heck, that’s what the drug war is in the first place, that’s why it’s so hard - now we’ve just multiplied the problem by sending the entire Mexican Army packing to the forests and mountains). That’s what Mexico knows best. And that’s a nightmare scenario for the US.”

The Mexican military has RPG-29s and the RPG-29 was considered so dangerous that the US refused to give M1 tanks to Iraqi security forces until years later and when they did, Iraqi M1s started to drop like flies.