alcoholicorn

1991? When the US backed Yeltsin's coup, causing the breakup of the USSR, the greatest non-war-related humanitarian disaster of the 20th century, and paved the way for Putin to come to power?

We’d love peace there, like it was before Russia invaded

There was a civil war between the coup in 2014 and the very day of the invasion.

They should immediately withdraw all their troops so peace resumes.

That would be wonderful. Sadly I do not live in Russia and can't tell Putin to do that.

There's three parties here who can unilaterally end the war, America, Russia, and Ukraine. In theory, only the American government represents my interests.

I mean they don't in reality because our government is 3 military contractors in a trench-coat, but it's a nice thought.

That they have no intention of defending Taiwan would be my guess.

You're reading this backwards; war would cut US interests in Taiwan. If anything, this is preparing for the US to try to defend Taiwan.

A war with China would not be good for American business interests in Taiwan.

I love that scene, you have a table of vicious killers and sociopaths, and even they're disgusted at the idea of someone not tipping.

From the things I saw about the US election, the Dems were the side with plans for the economy - minimum wage adjustments, unions, taxing the rich, etc

The dems are in power now, they didn't do those things, so nobody believed they'd actually do it if they were elected again.

Additionally, parading around endorsements from Dick and Liz Cheney, and promising to build a border wall, tax breaks for small businesses, and other republican policies from 2016 didn't help the perception that the dems weren't going to help people.

Minsk II was never enforced, after Zelensky got elected on a peace platform, he told told Azov and co to disband. They threatened to kill him, and kept at it. They were shelling Eastern Ukraine until they very day of the invasion.

But in any case, my analysis is not based on trusting Putin, it's based on what Russia is capable of and what the expected effects of such actions would be. They don't have the manpower to fight an insurgency in Western Ukraine, let alone invade the rest of Europe at the same time.

Short of a revolution and dismantling the military industrial complex, we were always the bad guys for WWIII.

~20 million die of lack of clean water, preventable disease, etc each year due to dictators the US arms to prevent economic development and keep resources and labor cheap.

If the leftists were enough to sway the vote, don't you think they should have listened to us?

Between 2014 and 2022, fighting never stopped.