nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦

tauta, kuri niekam kitam netinka, tik kelti maištams; once a self-appointed crustacean expert; interested in philosophy, languages, public intellectualism

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

It is *not* news that someone claims to want peace. Everyone wants peace, even the worst aggressors, at their conditions. So for gods sake, if you're a journalist, do your job.

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@cheapncheerless he's really a gift that keeps on giving isn't he

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@acmisthinking @Enbyyreturns war and diplomacy are linked. Insisting Ukraine can solve their issues via diplomacy while Russia refuses and suggesting we remove the tools for Ukraine to enact pressure to finally bring Russia to negotiations is, in the end, pro-Russian. Yes, even if you say Putin bad

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@Enbyyreturns For a politician or anyone with influence, the main motive is likely to get approval of those who already hate Ukraine, which is a large portion of leftists. Melenchon in particular has friends from Russia that openly support Russian aggression, like Udaltsov

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

If you have righteous indignation about how people talk about people dying en masse in one place but insist views that collapse on a couple of questions are legitimate disagreements regarding people dying en masse in another place... you might just not be acting in good faith

[Maria Popova 🇨🇦 @PopovaProf]

@tkpearson Mine too, so that's a start. Don't give russia the benefit of the doubt that they've felt threatened. They shrugged off Fin/Swe joining NATO, they leave borders defenseless, and they rarely use NATO expansion arg domestically. All because they do know there's no legit threat.

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@PopovaProf I've yet to see any « Russia’s legitimate security concerns » person correlate Europe's preparations in terms of military and infrastructure... because they show everything but willingness to prepare for an invasion into Russia. We're constantly late even just to fund Ukraine!

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@Bartaway the best way to push for genuinely woke policy is to marginalize people like this and insist on universalist principles for concepts like representation. Let men argue that we're underrepresented in nursery, that literally only helps

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@FancyVyshyvanki @AdrianP_doc This isn't a reasonable conclusion. Gazan's do not deserve their human rights any less just because western leftists are fucking stupid

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@AdrianP_doc @LiberatorFella Shouldn't compare just confirmed cases (the minimal numbers you give for Ukraine). UN for example stress themselves that it's a massive undercount but people continue to use it as if it isn't. Mariupol's civil govt suggested there could be 100k civilian deaths in Mariupol alone

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

They'll often say that this is because Russia is winning, and they know it is because... here's a pedophile saying so. Or a nazi. Or someone who got the last 10 major predictions wrong. The game is always "leave the consequences a few questions away"

[Vincent Artman @geogvma]

It's probably important for the champions of a "negotiated settlement" to start explaining why their policy prescriptions involve discussions about ceding Ukrainian territory, limiting which alliances Ukraine is allowed to join, and determining the size of Ukraine's army, and 🧵

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@VolodymDubovyk usually they have some baseless claim for what would happen next rather than admit not knowing, thus putting the question they obviously would have to know before commenting one challenge away

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@JetElectricEyes My taxes aren't going to enough bombs on kindergartens, let me change that and expect no consequences

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

So NATO got predictably bigger after Russia's invasion, but also it was inevitable that Russia would invade Ukraine if US kept saying (yes, words, contradicted by other words and actions) Ukraine will be in NATO. What's the causal link here, Russia wants a bigger NATO?

[yeet @Awk20000]

Hasan shares his thoughts on American scholar John Mearsheimer and his controversial views on Russia

"This is the one area where, while I agree with his initial analysis in the lead up to the war and like why Russia would potentially invade Ukraine, and how Russia was inevitably gonna invade Ukraine if America kept up..saying they're gonna bring Ukraine into NATO, stuff like that”

“Having said that, what I don't agree with is how overconfident he is about Russia's current situation..ya he went to Russia..he met with Lavrov..I mean look, Ukraine has massive internal scandals, corruption scandals..lot of instability"

"Are you insinuating he's a propagandist? - chatter

"No..I'm just saying that I think he's a little bit more sympathetic to Russia's chances and it maybe clouds his analysis a little bit..can I say that, it's fine. Like I mean, I largely agree with him"

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

Pronouncing preferences for lesser imperialisms and eventually revealing that the basis for which is which is something your ideological peers simply made up

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

@DrewSmith_33 Ukraine wanted to make a peace deal and we told them not to

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@JetElectricEyes thousands upon thousands keep dying and these people insist on painting it as greed and excess to think that that deserves attention and effort

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

please tell me again how this guy just wants free healthcare

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i never blocked you, and i deleted it since i found out you were not protein in your fathers ballsack, but instead in your mothers womb. point still stands about gwot and subsequent cynical usage of the horrors of 9/11. glad your mother made it out. i don’t think you disagree w what i’m saying about how we eroded civil liberties/ waged endless costly and bloody wars since 9/11.

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@NidhCthon @Landswellsong @gayest_tone 1. There's a pattern to anything, scale tells you how significant they are. Insisting on a magical read of pattern sounds conspiratorial

2. If fascism is a concern, isn't anyone mocking a defense against the fascist invaders that would install a far right govt concern #1?

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

@Landswellsong @NidhCthon @gayest_tone There's a reason they're uninterested in detailing scale of fascism or whether denigrating support for Ukraine is bad if fascist invaders could take over. They've been spouting it for years & want to continue without challenge https://t.co/yWZBBuGOvs

[nada del otro jueves 🇺🇦 @german_idealist]

Just to underscore this again, not that any single person who worried about Ukrainian strikes inducing a response cares about the truth

[Joseph Thomason @JThomason88]

Recently an argument has been made by some analysts that russia is targeting Ukrainian warehouses as a response to the strikes on wildberries in russia. I wanted to investigate this issue myself. As you can see, the data is quite clear, the increase began well before.

[Can't be blank @cheapncheerless]

We should de-escalate says the guy who was desperately predicting a Ukrainian collapse in 2025 and says that Peace Summits "deserved to fail" because they didn't give enough voice to a multipolar BRICS cacophony?

Colour me shocked he's wishcasting his predictions into reality...