Ukraine is winning — and it is changing

Please keep up the good fight. We need you in NATO.

I wonder if there's going to be some sort of culture crisis across The West when reality hits, or if Western media is strong enough to distract everyone with something new like they did with Afghanistan.

Remember when Hong Kong was "winning"?
Opened my eyes to the accuracy of the Western media
- Yeah same. I was there, and seeing what was happening and what was being reported was a huge WTF experience
I think they're already trying to shift it somewhat, the anti-Chinese stuff has picked up a bit recently.

Who wants to bet a hundred bucks?

Sure, what odds?
- I say Russia wins, I can pay with crypto when things end.

Written by Denys Shmyhal

That's Ukraine's current prime minister writing this opinion piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Shmyhal

GDR was a fucking authoritarian travesty fyi
- I guess this is why East Germans miss the GDR...
  https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-feel-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html
  Today, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 57 percent, or an absolute majority, of eastern Germans defend the former East Germany. "The GDR had more good sides than bad sides. There were some problems, but life was good there," say 49 percent of those polled. Eight percent of eastern Germans flatly oppose all criticism of their former home and agree with the statement: "The GDR had, for the most part, good sides. Life there was happier and better than in reunified Germany today."
If you are really enjoying simping for a neo-liberal protofascist dictatorship, then stop calling yourself a "Marxist"
- rather simp for someone opposing nato expansion than for a neonazi puppet regime staffed by people handpicked by the CIA. I swear you liberals refuse on purpose to understand that in the grand scheme of things the action of a "bad guy" can still be beneficial.
  Russia isn't conquering the world anytime soon. So what would you rather have? a more multipolar world where russia has a relatively safe and solid position after showing that it won't be bullied into submission by nato (with the whole world watching), or a world where russia is balkanized into several statelets without the political, economic or military strength to resist capitalist infiltration?
  We saw what happened last time russia got defeated. We lost a bastion of socialism, we saw tens of millions impoverished while a few capitalits dismantled everything that the USSR had built, and the whole thing ushered 40 years of hegemonic atlantist domination.
  So yeah, i am rooting for the "neoliberal protofascist dictatorship". There is a reason why literally nobody in the global south sanctioned Russia. 75% of the planet is reasoning the same way i am.
Lol, go back to Lemmygrad
- how's it feel to get your first ratio on lemmy?
- They're from Lemmygrad, you're from Lemmy.world, and you're talking on Lemmy.ml.
  What makes you think you have a better claim to the community this thread is in?
  Do you just not understand federation?
- Crazy how the creators of Lemmy made that instance along with this one.
- 69 points. Nice.