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I love how libs spam their jokes so obnoxiously they stop being funny.

Would be against Ukrainian constitution to have elections under martial law, not to mention impossible to arrange or supervise.

The term dictator is used today to almost always mean that someone wasn’t elected to the highest office of their country. Since Zelensky’s term expired a while ago, he is a dictator in that literal sense. Arguing that his dictatorship is legal doesn’t really matter.

What does matter is that for quite some time now, the average Ukrainian citizen has had no choice about the direction that the country should be going in, especially in regards to whether they should sue for peace right now or how to end the war.

Of course, that’s discounting the obvious that bourgeois republics are not really democratic to begin with, but even from the standards of bourgeois democracy, Ukraine fails.

To have open borders requires a majority of people the be free to pass from them.

What’s so special about 50%? Why not set the bar at 60% or 40%? Or 99% or 1%?

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I think the real poetic justice would be for china to defeat the imperialists’s strategy of distorting world markets to their benefit by resisting such distortions. Let the imperialists ruin the foundations of their own power. The capitalists will subvert market forces while socialists master them.

God I hope that the US doesn’t somehow force the EU to import American agricultural products. Food safety is the one thing that the EU seems to actually do right.

What other countries? England? Germany? France? The industrial center has moved to China.

There are plenty of other countries with decent levels of industrial manufacturing in the global south. India, Brazil, Russia, Vietnam come immediately to mind. But that’s besides the point, since by the time that the US collapses, more global south countries will join the ranks of moderately/highly industrialized countries.

It won’t be called America

Well, uh, the thing that comes after America would be helped by the rest of the world. America would be gone, but the land and the people won’t be.

In order to further safeguard itself, Xu expects China to provide financial subsidies and tax breaks to the tariff-hit agriculture and manufacturing sectors.

Really hope this doesn’t happen. There is no need for the Chinese to maintain such an extreme trade imbalance anymore. They shouldn’t be wasting their resources to make exploitation by the imperialists (chronic net drain of resources from China to imperial core) easier.

The whole reason why they are winning is precisely because they are not trying to get other countries to bow before them.

Not really. In the scenario of the US no longer being the world empire, I don’t see why the US couldn’t enlist help from other countries to re-industrialize. It could rebuild industrial capacity and educational capacity in parallel if say, it imported capital from China. You could drastically cut down rebuilding times with a planned economy.

Implying that Zelenksy has little support from Ukrainians by claiming he will be hung by his countrymen

No, he will be hung by the banderites and ultra nationalists regardless of how popular he is.

And even then, his popularity depends on the war going well, which it is not, so he will become much less popular at the end especially if he makes a bad deal (which the us will force on him).

CBSA officials seized some eight million grams of drugs compared to five million taken by U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) officials last year, government data shows.

Even when using SI units, Americans just have to make it weird somehow. 8 million grams? Who the hell uses grams like that? Just call it 8000 kilos or something

Ukraine didn’t take peace deals throughout the war because they thought the Europeans and Americans had their backs, and would let them into NATO for security in the future.

Now the Ukrainians have lost hundreds of thousands of people, huge tracts of land, and are about to be looted so hard it will make the looting of Russia after the dissolution of the USSR look like a cake walk.

The Ukrainians fought for a lie. Rule no. 1 of geopolitics. NEVER trust the Europeans or Americans. They will always backstab you.

The article is about political pressure, as I said, about accusing Israel critics of other crimes and thereby trying to shut them down.

Yes, criticising Israel is illegal as you have yourself just stated. The exact legal mechanism which the state uses does not change this.

On Friday, the Indian Express newspaper reported, opens new tab citing documents it had accessed, that the $21 million Trump referred to was disbursed to neighbouring Bangladesh, not India.

Honestly bigger news, given the recent events in Bangladesh.

The whole war was started because the Russians consider Ukraine in nato to be their red line, and the war was lost by Ukraine because the NATO leadership never seriously considered putting Ukraine in NATO if that meant direct war with Russia.

So no, it isn’t a realistic goal at all. The war ends only when either

1. The Ukrainian state collapses
2. A deal is made in which Ukraine does not join NATO
3. Ukraine pushes back Russian forces so much that they collapse the Russian government.

Scenario 2 seems to be the most likely outcome.

My brother/sister/comrade in christ, read the article this comments section is centered around.

Free speech gave the USA Trump.

Not at all. The things that Trump says are acceptable to the ruling class of America. Even without free speech (which the US doesn’t actually have), Trump would never be the victim of censorship laws.

I didn’t make the title. I just put the headline of the article as it was written.

Turns out it’s legal

Why would that be relevant?