Post Arm2fxXf7CLxlUcyGW by ReggieHere@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #ArcKMGP58MOk48lyvw by cemedia@mastodon.social
2025-02-20T15:04:41Z
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This is incredibly importanthttps://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/here-is-everything-that-neoliberals
(DIR) Post #ArcKMHaSjX5zjj6aJM by kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar
2025-02-20T15:39:00Z
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@cemedia look I hate neoliberalism as much as anyone, but this is just spin. Yushchenko was nearly assassinated, almost certainly by Russia, Yanukovych was very unpopular and tried to get the army to put down protests against him (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ukraine), he embezzled and then fled to Russia. Yeah the US sucks, as does the UK, but Russia ain't a babe-in-the-woods butter-wouldn't-melt blameless victim. There is plenty of machination and wheeling-dealing to go round without letting them off.
(DIR) Post #ArcKMIRdXpd8Odz3C4 by ReggieHere@mastodon.social
2025-02-21T10:18:14Z
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@kayeluvian @cemedia It is possible to accept that Russia's invasion was not as 'unprovoked' as every Western commentator and politician repeatedly claimed, without being pro-Russia.
(DIR) Post #ArcKMJAeqRdueH30Mq by kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar
2025-02-21T10:58:33Z
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@ReggieHere it's possible and not satisfied by this incredibly lopsided article.
(DIR) Post #ArcKMJj2mb9GMv8Sxs by ReggieHere@mastodon.social
2025-02-21T11:14:00Z
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@kayeluvian The article raises some awkward issues no doubt, but these are largely verifiable and mostly expose a bias in the Western narrative rather than pitching a pro-Russian stance.Elections in Ukraine prior to Zelensky showed a marked split between the pro-western West and the more pro-Russian East, and Z was elected on a landslide thanks to his promise to end the war.
(DIR) Post #ArcKMKk8zzcfWcerJo by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-01T17:11:04Z
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@ReggieHere @kayeluvian Russia is a Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council. As such, it has formally and perpetually renounced the right of securing its narrowly-defined national interests by military force, because for the most powerful countries in the world, collective security is the highest possible national interest.Russia is, if anything, worse than the US or UK about actually sticking to that. Which takes some doing. But the point is, no "provocation" is relevant.
(DIR) Post #ArflbWNfIHM8CMUR6m by ReggieHere@mastodon.social
2025-03-03T09:00:37Z
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@publius @kayeluvian The question was not whether Russia's invasion was justified (obviously not), but whether that invasion was unprovoked as Western politicians continue to claim.No one can seriously claim that the West, and the US in particular weren't provocative in their dealings in Ukraine.
(DIR) Post #Arfx8jwyxiRPKt3H0a by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-03T11:09:56Z
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@ReggieHere @kayeluvian Russia is provoked because Russia chooses to be, indeed, sets out to be provoked. The simple existence of something other than Muscovy is a provocation to the Muscovite mindset.Muscovy has an imperative to dominate everything it borders upon, which leads to the continual redefinition of its borders, and therefore of what must be dominated. Novgorod, Pskov, Kiev, then Tblisi, Baku, Yerevan, then Cracow, Budapest, Prague… there is no end to it.
(DIR) Post #Arfxr4Xrkgl3x3RX16 by ReggieHere@mastodon.social
2025-03-03T11:17:54Z
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@publius @kayeluvian Russia was provoked because the USA started to interfere on their doorstep, just as the USA would have been provoked if Russia or China were playing the same game in Mexico.Did the USA 'choose' to be provoked during the Cuban missile crisis?
(DIR) Post #Arm0FqXWKLBQbtywPQ by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-06T09:12:46Z
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@ReggieHere @kayeluvian Bad comparison. The Cuban Missile Crisis was triggered by the US placing IRBMs in Turkey, which resulted from the fact that nobody knew whether ICBMs would work or not. That time is over.Ukraine is almost as irrelevant to Russian security as Argentina or the Philippines. A war between the USA and Russia need not directly involve any other country, much less those on the Russian frontier, although they would all be affected.
(DIR) Post #Arm0Qta1MbCNE1Q6uO by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-06T09:14:30Z
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@ReggieHere @kayeluvian Any claim that Russia was provoked has to face the fact of the decades-long Russian effort to promote an anti-nuclear-energy policy in Germany, in order to make the linchpin economy of the EU dependent on fossil-fuel imports from Russia, preventing the EU from responding to Russian political and military intervention in East Europe.And this was successful, over and over again, including with the 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
(DIR) Post #Arm286laJPIiWpzx3I by ReggieHere@mastodon.social
2025-03-06T09:32:57Z
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@publius @kayeluvian I'll assume you're joking when you compare Ukraine to Argentina in terms of Russian security.
(DIR) Post #Arm2fxXf7CLxlUcyGW by ReggieHere@mastodon.social
2025-03-06T09:40:09Z
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@publius @kayeluvian That's a bit of a leap, but since no one in this thread is claiming that Russia is a good actor it's also irrelevant.It's ridiculous to claim that there was no provocation from the US before the Russian invasion, not least because that would fly in the face of *Western* reports at that time....https://mastodon.social/@anti_imperialist_news@threads.net/114109344526655281
(DIR) Post #ArtR82yAHsDNiFfZfU by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-09T23:16:37Z
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@ReggieHere @kayeluvian Why should I be joking? According to the viewpoint of the Kremlin in Moscow, it is a threat to the existence of Russia if Russian people are in contact with people who share cultural heritage and language with them, but are not living under authoritarianism. I simply do not buy that.
(DIR) Post #AruOhvE4Ruc9PwU5PE by ReggieHere@mastodon.social
2025-03-10T10:24:19Z
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@publius @kayeluvian Well, you must be either joking or geopolitically clueless to believe that Western militarisation, resource capture and NATO membership of Ukraine is not a threat to Russia.Even the US recognises that.