>Europeans and Ukrainians are skeptical of a major Russian invasion in Ukraine not because they have a more benign view of Mr. Putin than their American counterparts. On the contrary, it’s because they see him as more malicious. War, they reason, is not the Kremlin’s game. Instead, it’s an extensive suite of tactics designed to destabilize the West. For Europe, the threat of war could turn out to be more destructive than war itself.
>The Kremlin wants a symbolic break from the 1990s, burying the post-Cold War order. That would take the form of a new European security architecture that recognizes Russia’s sphere of influence in the post-Soviet space and rejects the universality of Western values. Rather than the restoration of the Soviet Union, the goal is the recovery of what Mr. Putin regards as historic Russia.
I'll take anything over the cringe inducing saying of "Russian tradionalist values", my Ivan brother.
Nicholas Nelson
Honestly, if Russia can provide a means for Western Nations to cast off the progressive deadweight, deport the 3rd worlders the troons, I would happily see Britain as a vassal state of the Russian Empire
Justin Collins
Russia is now the free world. And Western judeo-globohomo is the evil empire.
Jason Cooper
it's not about russian values, it's about their opposition to america
Tyler Williams
You wouldn't get it. TL;DR is that the Russian gov. loves to use the phrase 'tradional Russian values', usually meaning that the user MUST: >serve in the military >love his country loads >fuck women and make kids >NOT be gay
Jonathan Lewis
hot take: authority doesnt force a world view onto a person in russia nearly as hard as in the western europe. largely thanks to the ideological differences between ethnicities & ages
Lucas Long
He wants to be a czar?
Samuel Morales
>>serve in the military >>love his country loads >>fuck women and make kids >>NOT be gay
Exactly why I posted:
Blake Jenkins
this
John Torres
oh we get it. we called this "American family values"
Matthew Thomas
>I'll take anything over the cringe inducing saying of "Russian tradionalist values" Based
Michael Reyes
>Western values >puberty blockers for preteen boys so they can strip for gay men is a fundamental human right, and if you disagree you'll lose your livelihood and possibly go to jail Anything that destabilizes the great satan is a positive in my book.
Isaiah James
I mean, yeah, that's true. You can talk shit pretty freely, so long as you are not a news outlet or the like.
Whenever I look on the internet US is just so weird with taking things to the fucking extreme, lol.
Time to do the dumb Fallout: New Vegas meme of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Need to find that golden middle between Russian conservatism and American what-the-fuckism.
I've yet to figure out what Hoover Dam is if Russia is Caesar's Legion and USA is NCR.
Putin already has operatives setting up suitcase nukes in all major EU cities.
Anthony Bell
Agreed
Julian Cooper
I just want a real life Mr House to show up, bring us a functional economy, a pragmatic society without emotional manipulation from the media and invest on space colonies WHY IS EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD SO FUCKING CRAZY AND STUPID
Gavin Sullivan
>I just want a real life Mr House to show up Benevolent dictator with an army of robots to control Earth sounds kind of based, not going to lie.
Joseph Flores
I assume Russia has/had no intention of invading Ukraine. More likely Putin got word that Ukraine bolstered by the west would attempt to take back Donetsk and Luhansk and moved troops into position to ensure that wouldn't happen. Then the US did what they always do, find a 'coalition of the willing' to provide arms and troops to escalate shit even further all the while stating Putin is the sole cause of all this.
Question: What country was Hunter Biden involved in before Joe became president?
All this has effectively done is push Russia to strengthen their alliance with China.
