But it’s funny that you’ve comprehended my point of views on Russia such as “Russia has a legitimate self interest claim towards attempting to deny a neighboring country the ability to join an alliance that was created for the express purpose to counter Russia” as me simply being a Putin fanboy
what do you mean by "work"
do we really believe race relations have been truly headed in the right direction
what has desegregation actually accomplished
racism became more taboo for awhile but it seems like it just went underground and recently is resurfacing more blatantly
and re: the entire language of racism and framing things around race... even if empirically supported in a lot of the claims involved, has the direction of the narrative been leading to good things? has the strategy of the progressives actually truly paid off in a lasting way rather than a way that lends itself to symbolic victories that belie a deeper continuing culture war that isnt actually truly closer to resolving? and is in fact seeming to go more in the direction of polarization again?
the word "awareness" is something ive been skeptical of since it started becoming a meme that making people aware of shit like kony 2012 is inherently clearly a good thing
it's definitely fallacious to imply that "the fact that he was controversial enough to kill proves that he was on the right track"
not to say i wouldnt prefer a world where black people are fundamentally treated better and racism werent a thing but
still lots of skepticism in things claimed to have been actual victories
a more reasonable take than the one I just posted is probably that mlk probably did overall reduce the bad forms of racism to some extent and probably did help a lot of black people get better opportunities in specific instances
but in a way with a lot of double edged unintended consequences in how all this stuff is conceptualized
e.g. unintended consequence of affirmative action is now accomplished black people have to bear the burden of being considered possible charity cases no matter how legitimately accomplished
idk why I'm posting any of this I was just in an edgy questioningmlk mood
that’s the thing
it’s not legitimate
trying to force your neighbours to not do the type of diplomacy they want to do with military force is not legitimate
I doubt you’d ever spout such bullshit without first swallowing copious amounts of propaganda
tell me, if Mexico joined a defence alliance that only activated if they were invaded by you, would you feel threatened?
sadly the ukrainian government never got it's shit together after 2015 so we still have nazi militias running around to stop daddy putin
Are you trying to tell me that it's fake?
Just like Hunter Biden's laptop and crackpipes? lmao
you mean them overthrowing a blatantly corrupt pro Russian gangster? it was a massive upgrade for the country
watch winter on fire
what are you talking about obviously that was good for them but the armed forces were in such disarray they needed the militias and guard units like these friekorps and azov neo nazi goons to bolster their strength and the country is still unable or unwilling to disarm them
i mean im not pretending we don't have our own extremists in armed forces but i can't pretend those are good guys
If Mexico was about to join Warsaw do you think the United States government would allow it to happen???
answer my question
The US government caused countless wars in South America, Asia and the Middle East to stop Russian influence all throughout the 60s to the fall of the Soviet Union
please also explain how a defense treaty is a threat to russia
justify their involvement in Georgia in 2008 while you’re at it