My sibling in Satan the ukkkranians have suspended elections, outlawed all opposition parties, and integrated Nazi terror militias into their military. Is that the "freedom" you support?
But that's only temporary, they're going to stop doing it once they win just like the US ended warrantless surveillance and stopped supplying military gear to it's police and
It’s funny too because I imagine part of Putin’s calculus is “the most powerful country can get away with it, why can’t I?” and the US won’t set an example by holding their own people accountable, so more of these wars will happen because they’ll just point to the US’ conduct as acceptable
If people fighting for their freedom against a totalitarian regime is your definition of unnecessary then maybe you should reevaluate your political opinions.
Is the totalitarian regime the side with or without elections?
Back when words had meaning, which is usually only for as long as the first book describing the word is published, 'totalitarian' was used as a way to describe a system with 'totalizing' control and authority, i.e. full control over every aspect of society.
In practice, it was and is used by American political scientists to describe both the Soviet and Fascist systems of government, with full control of the every aspect of society, with the assumption, of course, that our system operates with different, particular controls, such as privatized media, private financial markets, etc.
Under such analysis, capitalism is simply a natural phenomena, and not a 'totalizing aspect', because American political scientists don't really recognize the concept of political-economy. This is one of the glaring axiomatic flaws. The particular flaws of the analysis are also quite poor, as not only was there massive privatization under Nazism, but there was fairly large latitudes in judgement that Soviets could use to pursue goals set out by the Central Soviet, and it was only during the 30's that the central soviet pursued major dictation of society (because Stalin and his advisors (the Central committee really) correctly predicted Germany would try to expand again, and military economies have pretty strict requirements ).
This is besides the fact that even under this model of analysis, modern Russia cannot be considered totalitarian. It now shares so much similar political institutional make-up with U.S. the U.S. would also be a totalitarian government, which was explicitly not the case by the creators of this analysis.
Needless to say, it's an incredibly flawed model that is unfortunately still taught in schools across the U.S., not just the 'bad ones', and tested for on standardized testing. However now it mostly has even been divorced from it's original flaws meaning to mean 'bad country I don't like's government'
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Before I reply in earnest, please answer this question:
"What was the Euromaidan"
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Open season for the next 40 minutes til the top of the hour!
Couldn't be the result of the US backing a right-wing coup because they didn't like the outcome of an election. That would NEVER
HAPPEN 
Reported for being a Russian bot, I hope the rubles were worth it
My sibling in Satan the ukkkranians have suspended elections, outlawed all opposition parties, and integrated Nazi terror militias into their military. Is that the "freedom" you support?
But that's only temporary, they're going to stop doing it once they win just like the US ended warrantless surveillance and stopped supplying military gear to it's police and
Come back when George Bush sits in the Iraqi prison cell where he belongs.
It’s funny too because I imagine part of Putin’s calculus is “the most powerful country can get away with it, why can’t I?” and the US won’t set an example by holding their own people accountable, so more of these wars will happen because they’ll just point to the US’ conduct as acceptable
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There are people who don't?! Wild
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lol
Vladimir Putin has been shelling Donbass civilians from inside Ukraine since then?
It's spelled Voldemort!
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You have spent exactly zero effort and time learning about the situation.
Okay Victoria Nuland.
If I knew how to mix music I would make a song with her "Fuck the EU" played right before the drop
I love it when libs try and give history lessons to us. you don't even know a quarter of what's been going on since 2014
it's also funny when I see a headline with Russia/Ukraine in it and an unbalanced upvote-to-comment ratio, it's like a lib dunking siren
His name is actually Vladimort Putler, get it right
Is the totalitarian regime the side with or without elections?
...and what does totalitarian actually mean?
Back when words had meaning, which is usually only for as long as the first book describing the word is published, 'totalitarian' was used as a way to describe a system with 'totalizing' control and authority, i.e. full control over every aspect of society.
In practice, it was and is used by American political scientists to describe both the Soviet and Fascist systems of government, with full control of the every aspect of society, with the assumption, of course, that our system operates with different, particular controls, such as privatized media, private financial markets, etc.
Under such analysis, capitalism is simply a natural phenomena, and not a 'totalizing aspect', because American political scientists don't really recognize the concept of political-economy. This is one of the glaring axiomatic flaws. The particular flaws of the analysis are also quite poor, as not only was there massive privatization under Nazism, but there was fairly large latitudes in judgement that Soviets could use to pursue goals set out by the Central Soviet, and it was only during the 30's that the central soviet pursued major dictation of society (because Stalin and his advisors (the Central committee really) correctly predicted Germany would try to expand again, and military economies have pretty strict requirements ).
This is besides the fact that even under this model of analysis, modern Russia cannot be considered totalitarian. It now shares so much similar political institutional make-up with U.S. the U.S. would also be a totalitarian government, which was explicitly not the case by the creators of this analysis.
Needless to say, it's an incredibly flawed model that is unfortunately still taught in schools across the U.S., not just the 'bad ones', and tested for on standardized testing. However now it mostly has even been divorced from it's original flaws meaning to mean 'bad country I don't like's government'
How can you know nothing about what you're talking about, yet seem to care so much?
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I'm pretty sure you're talking about Ivan the Terrible
Oh I forgot Ivan the Terrible is ambiguous, I meant the conqueror, not the Ukrainian nazi mass murderer
You seem to not know who’s truly behind Russia’s invasion
That's really not what happened, Ukraine bombed areas declaring independence, after a fachist coup
There is Hamas under Ukraine
i thought this was a bit, but then i saw the domain... it never fails
go serve yourself up a nice helping of that nuance you all love so much
Oh honey.