Yeah I remember when he was in office, with regards to Syria he said something like "Oh of course we're over there to do imperialism and steal all the oil. That's what we're protecting."

It was a big scandal, but the truth is he was just being honest, because he is not clever enough to realize that it's useful to lie in this circumstance.

That's very good, anything that degrades American plausible deniability, or prestige is good. He's obviously personally completely reprehensible, but a narcissistic bumbler is exactly who I want to charge of American foreign policy.

"Murderer-State of Israel" goes pretty hard.

"The dockers state it clearly, we will not stain our hands with the blood of the people”

Hell yeah.

Love these dock workers.

I always get into arguments with people trying to do the "East Asian (usually Japan in the past, sometimes China now due to the propaganda push) countries legal systems are so draconian, 99% conviction rate omg" thing because when you look at things from a material perspective, the "someone in the government with relevant authority decided you might have done a crime, do you end up in prison as a result?" rates aren't higher than in the US, they're lower.

In China prosecutors drop cases that don't looks like they're going to result in conviction. In Japan, cases that aren't a lock just don't get an indictment in the first place. In Japan or China you can be judged likely innocent by the system and not lower the conviction rate while you can be deemed guilty in the US without raising the rate.

It's entirely "bizarre and mysterious orient " shit.

This sounds like libertarianism

Well actually Trump is going to do genocide+ so you commies are the ones really responsible for supporting genocide.

I haven't been religious in 20 years but I've had to reintroduce the concepts of sin and "Joe Biden is going to hell" into my worldview so I don't lose my mind.

It was pretty good but Scar was mostly killing genocidal war criminals and I think he shouldn't have been made to feel bad about it.

Having read the Jakarta Method, I always find it kind of shocking when I see modern Indonesia acting in an independent way that undermines Western hegemony, but especially stuff like this where they're partnering with the largest communist state on Earth.

IIRC they have museums to educate their citizens about the dangers of sneaky communist traitors right? Like are they not extremely anti-communist? Obviously material concerns take precedence over ideological nonsense, but is there not a huge backlash from a large segment of the population over working closely with China?

Oh I'll just tell the poor Americans I know whose homes were bulldozed for transportation infrastructure that it didn't happen because they could have fought it in court. Dumbass.

Wait, so your ideal is instead of negotiations, in the same vein as Afghanistan, Ukraine experiences this horrible war for another 9 years and then becomes a state ruled by the fighters involved in the war with the most extremist far right ideology rule it as a theocracy? To be clear that ideology in this case is Nazism.

You don't sound like an ally of the Ukrainian people.

I thought the blog posts with the Taliban guy whining about the boring life of an office drone were funny as hell, idk if that counts

EDIT: also as others have pointed out, we need to give their money back, people are starving over there.

Yeah, clearcut good is when a government starts building monuments to Holocaust perpetrators, and banning minority languages including Yiddish, followed by a decade of bombing ethnic minorities in a border region.