Listen, I Like Sam, Emma, Matt and all the rest. They are my daily listen, even if I sometimes disagree.
And the subreddit is mostly okay, too. A bit too liberal for me to visit that often but not bad.
And then I saw this thread. Over 1k upvotes, 600+ comments.
And absolute dogshit analysis. Just an orgy of the most CNN-tier vomit spewed over all of our screens.
The stupidity of the bit you highlighted is unironically stunlocking me :agony-mescaline:
Russia invades a neighboring country when they threaten to join NATO, after decades of trying to prevent this through various broken promises and failed agreements. Then, assuming they win, “nearly every geopolitical figure” thinks they’ll just go ahead and make war with NATO anyway??? If they’re looking to go to war with NATO why go to war to stop Ukraine from joining???
this is why I quit DSA. “socialists” got mad that I went to an antiwar protest as an elected member of the steering committee and i was like “nope, if you can’t do the bare minimum and be anti-imperialist then this org embarrasses me.”
and yeah i know it’s DSA so i should have expected that but my local chapter was good once.
geopolitical figurehead
lol do they not know what figurehead means
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is very worried about Russia invading Poland.
figurehead has nominal power but because they are acting as the face of others they aren’t the decision makers
a nominal leader or head without real power
we all thought a protracted invasion of ukraine was a bad idea for various reasons that were mostly proven right and he did it anyway so I’m not sure we can put him on behaving in accordance with the obvious analysis.
No but you see, the fact that the russians made this one bad decision actually means that Putin is literally Adolf Voldemort Stalin and is definitely planning on ending the world with nuclear hellfire because he’s struggling with erectile dysfunction and restless leg syndrome.
Okay, I’ll bite. What is the strategic value of Russia attacking Poland when Kazakhstan is right there? It has more natural resource wealth than Poland does, it’s not a NATO member (but has made just enough pro-Western gestures that Putin might be privately annoyed with it), and it’s already full of ethnic Russians.
