I’m not sure what drivers are like where you live, so maybe our standards are different haha.

But pretty much everyone hates these streets. Drivers hate how narrow they are. Cyclists hate weaving between cars and pedestrians, and pedestrians hate being the least protected things on a street full of fast moving vehicles trying to kill them.

The fact that rich assholes in Tokyo are starting to buy huge American sizes SUVs as status symbols is making the problem worse too.

At the end of the day, the best thing for every city is to make it as inaccessible as possible for personal cars, and make sure pedestrians and cyclists have their own delineated spaces for transport.

cars drive slowly and carefully because their drivers acknowledge the street as a shared space.

As someone who lives in Japan, I can assure you that this isn’t true.

My life is going to end under the wheels of a hi ace or a mamachari.

You don’t know what we hope[1][2].

Is word salad still on the menu?

Russian “imperialist aggression” isn’t what this was in the first place[3][4][5][6].

This is what I’m talking about.

When presented with two truths, you’ll accept the pro-Russian one without criticism as it’s what you want to believe.

Your logic is:

West = bad
Russia is anti-west
Russia = good

For example, I bet you believe every dubious claim made about genocide in Donbass from pro-Russian sources, but you probably believe Bucha and Mariupol are false flag attacks made by “Ukrainian Nazis”

Not because it’s the truth, but because it fits your worldview.

Unsourced my ass:

Thank you, why couldn’t the article have actually linked this instead of a reddit thread??

Also how relevant are cold war documents to today’s situation? Ukraine was part of the Soviet union when this document was created. Do you really believe the KGB wasn’t producing similar documents? Look at the “Foundations of Geopolitics” a book that is actually still influencing Putin’s decision-making today.

“A negotiated end to the war” probably doesn’t mean “surrender unconditionally” as many .ml residents hope.

Ending the war without rock solid security guarantees just leaves Ukraine open to further Russian imperialist aggression in the future.

And as a side note, can I also confirm if the bar for evidence is so low in this instance that unsourced grainy scans of documents posted on tankie Reddit subs are considered authoritative?

does not hold elections

How long has Putin been in power now?

anti-colonial force

Tankies gonna tank.

Hope you pass the purity test when they come for you.

Some interesting stuff here, it’ll take me a while to read through it all.

Nothing really seems to support the idea that NATO conducted a genocide though.

Your first link is a dubious site that sources itself to support it’s argument.

As for the language law. It could have been handled better but the impact was overblown by Russian propaganda.

Also you ask Russian imperialism to be viewed in the context of NATO provocation. Why is it not also fair then to view the language bill as a response to blatant Russian aggression?

When do you think Ukraine invaded Iraq? You mean the Soviet union controlled my Moscow?

There needs to be evidence of NATO aggression against Russia for me to actually try to defend it (which I wouldn’t anyway)

So you believe western volunteers are mercenaries?

What would you call Russian prison battalions, kidnapped indian students and north Korean regulars?

Do you know how tiny 100km² is in comparison to the entire of Ukraine?

The reality of the war is a sparsely guarded Frontline across hundred of kms of empty land that frequently changes hands.

Ukraine also still holds land in Kursk according to current osint.

enabling you to marry your buttfucker

So you’re just blatantly homophobic?

Let’s assume you’re correct about US interference in Maidan.

Why do you believe that is an excuse for war, but Russian interference in the Ukrainian state (to the point that their president was a Russian puppet), was acceptable?

You don’t have any problem with Russia removing Ukraine’s right to self determination?

Why does Russia’s defense rely on the oppression of other states?

At the end of the day, millions of people are dead or injured because of Russian bullets. Do their lives mean so little to you?

Fair.

I also only read the article after your first comment to be completely honest.

Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014 ran a proxy war in the interim and has failed to complete it’s military objectives after nearly four years of total war?

Russia has over a million casualties.

Is this what winning looks like?

Unclear when IMF interference demands for austerity were known.

I think you’re conflating two separate issues. The IMF was not involved in trade talks between the EU and Ukraine. It was when Ukraine was seeking loans but Yanukovych didn’t reject to ratify the EU bill because of the IMF.

CIA/US state propaganda operations to fabricate that opinion, was done purely for nazification and warmongering purposes

To what end goal?

Is it so hard to believe that given the choice between closer ties to the EU or a gay hating, poverty stricken state run by robber barons and oligarchs, Ukrainians might have preferred the EU?

The idiocy of the public makes them resort to their programing.

This isn’t a fair argument, I could say the same thing about you, and you could say the same about me. How can we find truth when we both believe the other is simply regurgitating programming from some shadowy propaganda source.

I’ll ask this: Do you feel yourself entrenched in these views or are you actually open to changing them through discussion?

immediately massacred opposition in Odessa,

This didn’t happen though.

removed Russian language rights

This also didn’t happen.

Again no one is saying otherwise.

I’m very confused now. Because it seems like we actually agree with each other then and I’m not sure why we’re fighting.

I think NATO sucks, but I also think Russia does. The only thing I care about in this situation is Ukrainian autonomy.

If you believe Ukraine has a right to self defense and self determination then we’re in agreement.

Let’s look at this from another perspective.

Russia has completely failed it’s “special military operation” in Ukraine and is bogged down in a war of attrition with a nation that is not in NATO.

NATO countries are supplying a trickle of arms to Ukraine, but without a single NATO boot on the ground, without a single aircraft carrier, Russia has been stopped in its tracks and has failed to complete the majority of it’s military objectives, having even lost actual Russian territory to Ukrainian counter offensives.

Clearly Russia would not stand a chance if NATO decided to invade them.

So that begs the question, if you believe NATO wants to invade Russia, and it’s clear Russia couldn’t stop them, why haven’t they?

I engaged with it. It’s saying the Serbs were responding to a proxy war initiated by the CIA when they were literally just exterminating Bosnians.

You can give me your summary but I’m not reading any more dubious links on the matter, especially when link bashing is being used as a rhetoric device to prevent your argument being challenged.

And again:

1. NATO did not attack Russia
2. Russia invaded Ukraine

Do Ukrainians have a right to defend themselves from Russian imperialism?

Fair enough. Though he was named directly and is still just an economist.

Besides I’ve read the paper now. All it says is there there is still the possibility of the virus having been released due to a research related incident.

That’s a far cry from “CIA bioweapon” like the OOP believes.