The US defence industry does pretty well though, given that it makes the world’s best military hardware. Although of course Boeing has had problems in recent years so I guess it’s not all great.
But yeah military and civilian benefits would of course both be good, I’m just saying that military research has produced stuff that also has civilian benefits.
Military R&D has created good technology though, like the internet, and GPS. Both of these obviously benefit civilians.
Also maybe Europe needs to be more serious about defence and military capabilities, especially if Trump weakens NATO. Macron said yesterday that Europe needs to stop being “herbivores” and start being “omnivores”, otherwise the world’s “carnivores” will push Europe around.
I guess ideally Biden should never have run for a second term, and they could have had proper primaries.
Fair points. Biden won enough men in 2020 though. Maybe Kamala was just seen as too leftist or too focused on women’s issues or something… I’m not saying she was those things, but maybe some people saw her that way.
Fair. Maybe voters cared about personalities though. And they thought Kamala was partly responsible for rising prices under Biden’s term, so maybe they weren’t as bothered by other policy areas.
True. Maybe Harris should have focused more on working class endorsements, union endorsements, etc. I dunno.
Perhaps these two factors contributed to this:
And of course the people who run Lemmy.ml are the people who made Lemmy.
On the websites of many open source projects over the last 2 years there have been messages of support for Ukraine, but I guess that’s unlikely to occur with Lemmy.
Yeah fair enough. I probably won’t block them because I find it interesting to see other people’s views.
No I didn’t know until you tagged me. Seems like they’ve had a strange reaction to my post. I think what I said in that post is true but I will admit I’m wrong if somebody can prove so. Here are a couple of articles which seem to back up what I said:
Regarding the invasion of Crimea in 2014: “Incognito Russian soldiers appeared throughout Crimea… The Kremlin initially claimed the soldiers were local “self-defense” groups but later admitted they were professional Russian soldiers”.
Regarding the invasion of the Donbas in 2014: “A London-based digital forensics agency says it has gathered an enormous body of evidence that Russia’s military was deployed in the August-September 2014 fighting around Ilovaysk, in eastern Ukraine”.
If that’s true then both Ukrainians and Russians have impositions on their freedom, but at least Ukraine seems to have had democratic elections over the last 10 years, whereas Russia has been rigging their elections, perhaps since 1999 (or longer than that).
Anyway, I would definitely like for Ukrainians to be allowed to leave their country if they wish. But the blame for this invasion surely rests on Russia. The Kremlin launched this imperialistic invasion in 2022, building upon their earlier invasions in 2014.
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Are people in Russian-occupied territories free to protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? No. They would get put in prison, or worse. So they aren’t free.
I do think Ukrainians should be allowed to leave Ukraine. But you seem to be blaming Zelenskyy for the Russian shells, being fired by Russian forces. For some reason you don’t want to put any blame at all on the Kremlin - why is that?
liberated
Russia is imperialist and I don’t trust any of their “referendums” in the occupied regions of Ukraine, given that Russia rigs elections (that’s a video of ballot stuffing in Russia).
could you please also explain to me how being unable to leave your country where you can be kidnapped on a street at any day and sent to die is not considered slavery
I do think there is a point to make here. Ukrainians should be free to leave their country if they want. But anyway, I strongly disagree with your view that Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine is “liberating” anything or anyone.
The strain on Ukraine is immense though, as the article states. Ukrainian men are told to fight. They’re being bundled into vehicles by military recruiters (it’s often vatniks making this point, but that source is a US-government-funded media company).
I would absolutely like for Russia to withdraw entirely from Ukraine, but surely the human cost needs to be taken into account. I don’t think Ukrainians should be forced to fight. And maybe potential soldiers would be more willing to fight if Western support was better than it currently is - Zelenskyy is always requesting more weapons and the West just drags its feet.
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You accuse others of racism but you’re racist yourself. Talking about stereotypes that “you people” hold. You’re generalising across westerners, and perhaps you mean white people in general.
Anyway, there is nothing morally wrong at all with objecting to the PRC government.
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Criticising a government is not racism.
Sure, I wouldn’t want US-style healthcare for Europe. I’m not saying Europe should copy everything that the US does, but imagine if European research (military or otherwise) came up with something as groundbreaking as the internet… that would be cool.