I think that's actually going to be pretty difficult. It would be a true triumph of counterintelligence to pull that off.

I think it might get partitioned like Germany did. It would help the Western narrative engine to draw those parallels and it would allow the West to continue operating and building power while requiring Russia's constant attention.

Russia cannot occupy Ukraine and is unlikely to physically invade and occupy Kyiv directly. It is also unlikely that Russia will spend the resources to do to Ukraine what the US did to Korea.

Everyone except the European power structure IS imagining it. Literally it's the stated reason for Korea developing nukes - so that it can pursue everything else without the West choosing to bomb it back to the stone age for second time.

Sounds like a 2-year-long rope-a-dope

LOL. A perfectly reasonable post and the only thing you can respond with is an ableist ad hominem. Good luck navigating the world around you !

I dunno. Highly motivated, highly incentivized, backed by the most productive nations on the planet. I think those of us in the West are used to tranformative things taking forever because of the incompetence and the lack of incentives for the powers that be, and we forget how quickly our nations do transform things to harm us - DMCA, domestic surveillance, sharing intelligence, privatizing water, destroying habitats, etc.

The US is constantly repeating propaganda domestically and abroad all day every day. The least the UN can do is remain consistent in countering the narrative.

It always was

While it's possible for both to be true, it's both A) completely unnecessary if the primary opposition is from astroturfed Western regime change operations and B) completely irrelevant because the first responsibility of the government should be to get those foreign agents out of the country so that they don't end up with a vocal and violent ultra minority trying to overthrow the government and install a Western puppet.

Meanwhile on the other side of Russia Korea is testing it's mobile solid fuel ICBM capabilities.

What the hell would the USA even do? Sanction Korea?

Holy shit, talk about obvious propaganda. You think a full half of the country is completely all about supporting a country that our entire military industrial complex is built to fight and that our military decided to declare as a near-peer rival? And you think it's the tankies that have been taken in by propaganda?

Jesus.

Wait. Why is this obvious propaganda?

Liberal downvoting has seriously spiked today. What's going on?

Food insecurity in the USA exists without anyone sanctioning it. Stores have literally started locking deodorant and baby formula behind glass to prevent more theft.

But you think a Newsweek story about a single person stealing a pack of butter is evidence that the sanctions are working?

Worse, you are totally cool with sanctions harming average citizens with food insecurity and not aware that collective punishment is a literal crime against humanity?

What a delusional take on the conflict in Ukraine. Even the US media is describing the situation as a slow motion collapse for Ukraine. Ukraine has lost multiple entire armies needing quite literally every piece of armor replaced by the West. Ukrainian soldiers report being absolutely pummeled by glide bombs and artillery while they have nearly zero ability to respond and near complete inability to move around due to Russian air dominance and constant drone recon.

Ukraine has managed to through a few small explosives strapped to drones and hit civilian targets in Russia, and that's about it.

Ukraine has literally developed nothing - everything they are using on the battlefield is old Soviet stock or supplied by their Western colonial allies.

What are you even talking about?

What an incredible piece of world building! It's stunning how little reality there is in this whole piece

Why are you surprised when China literally says over and over and over again that they have no intention of violently invading the island and forcing it at gunpoint to reintegrate? They have said over and over for years and years that they will reintegrates their sovereign territory through diplomacy and establishing one country two systems, as they have demonstrated works multiple times over.

This dogmatic anti-religion stance has demonstrably blinded you to actual material reality. This anti religion stance was also one of the biggest mistakes the USSR made when it was starting it.

I thought the USA broke from the UK because of freedom? How could they be so closely aligned?