Almost 20 years after the invasion of Iraq and we're right back where we were then, but worse because now fucking NATO has decided they'd rather get into a nuclear pissing match with Putin than take one fucking L. Meanwhile stateside it's suddenly back in vogue to attack LGB and especially T rights, liberals and chuds have put aside their differences to play in the war drum circle together, the anti-anti-imperialist "left" is taking its victory laps online, the pandemic that still is killing and will continue to kill thousands every day is suddenly yesterday's news, and all we have to show for two decades of protests and agitation and organizing is a handful of better contracts for chuddy trade unions and a couple unionized Starbucks.
TL;DR: All hail the cockroaches who will inherit the fallout-choked Earth, I've no doubt they'll do a better job running the place than we did.
the only people taking Ls here are hardheaded Leftists refusing to admit they were wrong about this.
It's not even that embarrassing to say you got this one wrong. This invasion makes no sense for Russia and all signs point to it being a pyrrhic victory (in terms of geopolitics, not the actual fighting). You can just say "it just didn't make sense for Russia to invade, so I didn't think they would". But instead some "leftists" just decide to start supporting imperialism now. I'm sure that if hexbear was around in the 1800's the top posts would be about how the French invasion of Algeria is justified because of the British Raj.