AES_Enjoyer

"Espouses but fails to uphold" sounds more like negligence to me. Negligence would be allowing fascism through inaction (like democrat administration). But the US does far worse than that (funding genocide and propping up fascism elsewhere)

While I agree, the discussion in other instances like .ml or hexbear is much more nuanced IMO (plenty of critical voices against Russia too, just not based on US State Dept. propaganda)

Seeing as you're radicalised against Russia to that degree, any further discussion is useless, I won't change your mind and you won't change mine by making false claims of genocide and failing to understand the slightest nuance beyond US state department propaganda

I don't defend the uncritical banning of non pro-western outlets or viewpoints carried out by .world mods, I'm asking them that if they ban comments for it, they should be open about it and admit that they will censor non-pro-western voices.

If attacks to civilian infrastructure and election interference are enough to claim war, Germany should be in the first instance at war with the US and Ukraine according to that logic, given the explosion of the Nordstream (much more important and evident than reported drinking water alteration or whatever you claim of DHL planes with incendiary devices). Also, Ukraine should be at war with the US for its interference in the election process in 2014, where the democratically elected leader was toppled in a blatant west-backed coup.

You know what Georgia and Ukraine have in common? They're in the Russian sphere of influence area and have been for the past century. What's happening is that the west keeps meddling in the Russian sphere of influence and Russia responds in the only way it can: militarily. Russia exhausted the possibilities of diplomacy with the west, warned repeatedly of the consequences of western-alignment of Ukraine (which, again, was done antidemocratically in 2014). That's the reason why Russia invaded Ukraine, because its diplomacy, soft power and interference were weaker than those of the west in maintaining a sphere of influence. Believe it or not, history didn't begin in 2022.

The EU should stop the US-directed meddling in Russia's sphere of influence, and start building relations with the countries that are actually sharing a continent with it. It's just too racist and too subservient to US interests to do so.

Putin is our fascist problem and people appeasing Putin are also a part of the problem.

Putin is a fascist and that's a problem, but he's not the one pushing to cut our healthcare and education and pensions budgets, he does that in Russia. He's not the one threatening our minorities and our women, he does that in Russia. Europe is more than capable of having fascism by itself without the help of Putin, and blaming everything on a Russian conspiracy is, well, a conspiracy. Russia isn't nearly powerful or influential enough to be mostly responsible for the fascist problem in the EU, there are a lot more material conditions thst give raise to that.

Stop fucking cheering for war. Stop your warmongering attitudes, stop presenting Europe as the fighting ground for WW3, you DO NOT WANT to see war in the EU, and it's absofuckinglutely not too late to go back.

No need for whataboutism when discussing the imperial tendencies and supremacy in the west.

Insignificant compared to west germamy

How is Putin the biggest fascist threat for Europe? Fascism was literally born in Europe and exported elsewhere, we have Nazi and fascist parties getting consistent growth election after election in basically every EU country.

Believe it or not, Europe isn't at war with Russia, we should be struggling in favour of diplomacy to reduce both our and their military expenditure... which is hard to do when riding hard the NATO wave. Ffs Europe was building gas pipelines with Russia 3.2 years ago, we're really still capable of separating ourselves from fascist US, reduce military expenditure with fascist Russia, and take care of our own fascist problems.

The best way to fight fascism is with meaningful policy thay helps the working class. The best way to help it is proving that liberal democracy consists in getting to choose which party gets to enforce austerity this term

Without meaning this as a defense of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine: go check .world mod history, every other deleted comment is "Russian troll" or "disinformation" or equivalents. If you defend a policy of censoring points of view more charitative to Russia than western narratives be open about it, it's fine, just be aware that you're actually doing it

*in west Germany

ALL third-party candidates combined for less than 2% of total votes

So finally you admit it's not third party voters to blame for Trump?