"We have to defend White Culture!"

Motherfucker you're from Boston and pretend to be Italian. You've never made an apple grunt in your life. You didn't have coffee jelly until a boba place sprang up in your local mall. You've spent a total of 52 minutes inside a historical building in your whole life, and all of them were because of school trips. You don't participate in the culture you already have, what the fuck do you think you're gonna RETVRN to?

Russia bombing a US company in Ukraine is more proof of a pretty simple truth: you can't make peace with a state that wants expansion.

See, Russia is willing to bomb US companies at this point because they're convinced the US won't intervene, because Trump is a weak and easily tricked man. Because they're convinced that there won't be retaliation, it becomes very worthwhile to push US companies to stop operating in Ukraine, which weakens the Ukrainian economy and severs more ties between the countries. There are obvious military reasons why Russia attacking these companies makes sense, while the reasons not to do so are either moral or out of consideration for US response. But the Russian government isn't interested in peace and is no longer concerned with US response, which gives them only reasons to carry out such attacks.

In the absence of support for Ukraine the result wouldn't be peace, it would be conquest and expansion. If things went remarkably well for Russia it would look like Chechnya: decades on end of horrific insurgency conflict, civilian casualties on all sides from terror attacks and security crackdowns, the elevation of the most extreme far-right elements of Ukrainian society into puppet positions, etc. In a worst case scenario for Russia it would be their version of the Soviets in Afghanistan: the same brutal insurgency conflict, but grinding them slowly into dust. Depriving Ukraine of support would only encourage further Russian expansion and lead to even more horrific conflict within Ukraine and likely beyond.

This is just a basic mistake that many of the "pro-peace" folks are making about the conflict. The only person who can end the Russo-Ukrainian War is Putin, and he will only do so when he believes he can't win. He doesn't want peace, he wants conquest. He can't be convinced to calue peace until he feels that peace is his best and only option.

@mikebabcock I'm not sure if there was a glitch kr something, but you responded to one of my posts and Mastodon won't let me respond to your comment, so I hope you don't mind this.

I'd be curious what fallacies you think I've engaged in and how they invalidate my point. I'd also be curious if you believe that your government should be allowed to have any armed agents, and if so why they would need armed agents.

Hello this is congressperson Aipac Thirdway Moneybux from Wisconsigan. I'm here to courageously speak out against the ideological excesses of the far left of my party. As you know we Democrats are having a popularity crisis, and as someone who won my election by 0.00032% running against Satan Himself I think I know how to get it done. Unfortunately I must repudiate Mr Universally Beloved, whose blowout victory is representative of nothing and whose ideas are, frankly, racist. I know it may seem like Mr Beloved's "we could just do some of that New Deal stuff again" has captured hearts and minds, but it's important to know he did so in a way that would threaten the highest American value: the feelings of bankers. For that reason I must condemn him as a misogynist and possibly as a gay-hater. We must restore the American dream: mulching immigrant families and the homeless using drones and subsidizing drone training for underprivileged youth of color who start their own drone business in an underserved area.

Anyways, God Bless America