Normally I’d agree but domestic considerations are the main drivers of geo-politics and Trump has ALOT of need to distract his citizenry. Successful military operations historically provide a huge boost in popularity to leadership and Trump craves public adoration like a man who wasn’t loved enough as a child. I could rattle off all the other reasons the Trump regime would want a war: weak economy, Epstein files, etc etc so for once I think the oil is a secondary or tertiary motivation.

Fair enough. I never saw much point to piping gas to residential neighborhoods but then I grew up in a place that electrified early because of abundant hydropower.

Settle down, Beavis

Somehow I doubt Russian fascists intend to denazify anything. More likely they will add Ukrainian people and economic output to their war machine and pick a new former Russian Imperial possession to invade.

Because everyone close enough to assassinate Putin benefits from the regime. None of them are in their positions for altruistic reasons and all them them would face the gallows if Russia had real accountability. It’s why Coup attempts are frequently not launched by Generals.

Most of the soldiers getting sent into the meat grinder are ethnic minorities from poor regions of Russia. They’re people that European Russians don’t care about.

Well good for them. Bending knee to Putin won’t secure peace, it’ll only secure them an intermission until Putin can finish the job.

Well good for them. Bending knee to Putin won’t secure peace, it’ll only secure them an intermission until Putin can finish the job.

Well, the price of a four year degree skyrocketed, while the financial return for most degrees is essentially zero. Not that there isn’t value beyond monetary compensation to be had in getting alot of degrees but they now come packaged with a lifetime of student loan debt if you’re not wealthy or lucky enough to get scholarship money.

Saying the public has ownership implies that they have some control of it which certainly isn’t true. It’s more like a Palace economy than anything.

Fun fact, Britain had to create taxes in it’s East African colonies not to raise income but because British economic interests struggled to recruit workers from people who had everything they needed without the British. Forcing them to pay taxes in currency forced them to accept employment to acquire that currency.

Someone can do good in one way but be a shithead in many other ways. There’s nothing idealistic about holding people accountable, unless you frown on speaking truth to power.

Imagine seeing a fascist country like Russia led by a Russian Imperialist who acts more like a mob boss than anything else and being like “yep, what a beacon of Leftism”. Nothing says socialized ownership of the means of production like your leadership living lives of extreme luxury as they drift from dacha to dacha.

When it leaks. When it burns, it produces less pollution than things like coal or petrol.

Maduro deserves to go back to bus driving. But the Venezuelan people deserve a nose cone.

What a sack of shit. Also, important to note that the announcement was met with confusion by essentially anyone in the government/military that would actually enforce a no-fly zone. Incompetence all around.

What a sack of shit. Also, important to note that the announcement was met with confusion by essentially anyone in the government/military that would actually enforce a no-fly zone. Incompetence all around.

There was a Mexican immigrant at work from a more financially secure family who travelled back to Mexico for a visit right when the ICE problems were exploding; he couldn’t understand our surprise that we would risk it. “I’m not illegal, I have all my papers”. Bro, none of your white citizen coworkers think this has anything to do with immigration status, the crackdown is just about racism.

Once down the dark path you begin, forever with it dominate your destiny.

Calling a country where the means of production are controlled by the upper classes “socialist” is a stretch even before we consider their mixed economy and rampant capitalism.