They were fine with Ukraine trading with other European nations but weren’t ok with them not wanting to be under Russian control.

Remember Ukraine traded in nukes to get protection from Russian imperialism.

Im not saying Russia doesn’t care about NATO. I have stated that it does not matter what Russia’s position is as they have no right to determine what Ukraine does despite the intense entitlement throughout Russia

These minerals threaten the Russian economy and their soft power over other European nations. If Germany can get their fuel supply from Ukraine rather than Russia that weakens Russia

Russia hasn’t seized those materials yet and they still believe they can so the war will continue.

To be clear Im talking about many of the other leftists that are celebrating Putin’s invasions/actions not just you specifically

Russia has no right to demand a buffer zone and they have had plans to retake Ukraine for years as you always had that cadre of nutjobs going back to Zhirinovsky that would comment on the need to rebuild the empire. I believe they just found the right circumstances to take advantage of the situation.

No war is about morality and the only side with anything resembling a moral claim at all are those invaded.

Ok but Qaddafi wasn’t an ally of the USA.

Im not engaging in discussions that have zero to do with this thread in this thread.

This all starts when it becomes clear Ukraine has mineral rights that threaten Russia’s ability to lean on Western Europe to the extent it does/did.

The NATO claims are just cover. Even if they were true Russia has zero right to determine Ukraine’s future.

It’s weird to see “leftists” endorse imperialism while attempting to claim any kind of morality.

Trump works for the rival gang though. He’s just demanding the minerals so the dipshits will blame the USA instead of Russia. Putin gets what he wants to steal and he looks good in the eyes of the pro-authoritarian class traitors in this thread.

You are backing the Russian invasion of Ukraine which they did to steal minerals and you are criticizing the US doing the same now that POTUS is a Russian asset?

Isn’t that exactly why Russia invaded to begin with, to steal minerals?

Only if you ignore all the obvious facts that make them wrong. For example two of the “allies” pictured here were never allies.

How was Libya, a member of the non-aligned movement, a US ally? They literally were part of a group that took neither side in the Cold War.

OBL was never an ally. The US gave money to the Pakistani ISI who gave money to fixers who gave money to OBL. There was no direct channel. He was never an ally and it is a weird assertion to make given the history.

The other two were US allies. Noriega was even friendly with Bush 41. This is just bad history.

And as if half those pictured were never allies. For pete’s sake Libya was in the non aligned movement from 1964 on.

I literally state that unripe olives are green.

Which isn’t an IRL concern for most men. I used to be friends with a woman in a sugar baby relationship. She looks like a prettier version of Samantha Browning and I look like Waldo/Wally from Where’s Waldo if Waldo had bad skin and missing a few teeth.

Every once in a while someone would ask why I was hanging out with her and my reply would be something along the lines if she’s nice, interesting, and Im poor and I own a mirror. I had nothing to lose by hanging out with someone who was interested in beibg friends with me clearly because of whobI was rather than anything material I had to offer.

Whomever is doing isglitch is doing a great job

Hey sometimes we get pineapples or mangoes.

Not all olives are making bright green oil though? Not all olives are green. Unripe olives are green and the go purple to black as they ripen. Black olives are fully ripe and d not press bright green.

The first one listed with Hugh Grant and Meryl Streep.

You could kill almost anyone in NV as you cannot kill children in any game nor can you kill major quest givers.

Perhaps they have reasons to not want to encourage senseless violence to NPC’s at a time when a chunk of the population clearly views others as IRL NPC’s?