Yzermandius19

China and Russia are weak returning to a gold standard is not a sign of strength and Russia is getting it's ass kicked by Ukraine

in other words America is so powerful that only America itself can bring it down no nation on the globe is in a position to take the mantle from America everyone else is a lot weaker if you think America is weak, then no one is strong and America is still strong relative to all of it's competition

plenty of people know what Putin's goals alot of people not knowing what Putin's goals are, doesn't mean that no one knows Japan has sanctioned Russia and China is not in a position to bail Russia out of this mess Russia is not in a winning position demanding rubles as payment and threatening to cut off exports they are economically reliant on doesn't alter that blackmail is the only card they can play, and that is a sign of weakness not strength

I attribute that to incompetence you attribute that to Russia being hyper competent and having a genius plan that is playing out exactly as they have envisioned one assumption is infinitely less likely than the other and incompetence isn't the unlikely assumption

America dominates militarily, technologically, culturally, diplomatically and economically if this was a game of Civilization they'd be the nation closest to winning by every single win condition full spectrum dominance ftw

he tried taking it in two weeks it didn't work

America is dominating on almost all fronts

The Ukrainians do not favor being in a federalist state with Russia they are a separate nation and wish to maintain their autonomy your opinion of what they should want doesn't matter

most Ukrainians do not consider themselves Russian especially now both Russians and Ukrainians being Slavs doesn't change that you not being able to tell the difference doesn't mean there isn't one it just makes you ignorant there is big difference between a civil war amongst Slavs and a war between two Slavic nations

and yet despite all the harm it has done the good outweighs the bad by several orders of magnitude a strong America is a boon for the world and it succumbing to weakness would be a tragedy

now that I can agree with however that is total 180 from "The West is strong, America is weak" that you started with in your OP you came around in the end better late than never

the only way to bring it down is suicide if it doesn't beat itself plenty of juice left to squeeze out of it yet

sharing the same ethnicity does not make it all one country Slavs live in many different countries when two of them go to war that's not a civil war

you don't understand Russia or Ukraine, history or geography, or Trudeau comparing Ukraine to Quebec and Russia to Canada in your analogy proves that Trudeau would never make such an idiotic comparison

the American response to BLM riots was far less extreme than Canada's response to Freedom Convoy protests even though the Truckers were infinitely better behaved because Canada is a totalitarian shithole and America actually gives a shit about free speech unlike Canada and Canadians like you

because they were protesting oil pipelines which is a cause the left approves of oppose the left's covid mandates though then they call you a terrorist and crush you under the jackboots

indeed Russia being Russia

Trucker Convoy did a lot better 100% BLM was infinitely more violent yet the federal government never declared martial law over it and never shut down the peaceful protests Canada did

the convoy wasn't a riot

Ukraine is not apart of that federation equating them to Quebec and Russia to Canada is a stupid analogy

who is stronger than America? you claim they are weak weak relative to who?

you assume that nibbling a little bit of Ukraine off temporarily for the cost being incurred is somehow a win for Russia that is a far more ridiculous assumption than any assumption I make

they know there is a war going on they just aren't on the frontlines there is a difference and the war certainly isn't moving them towards Russia just the opposite they are distancing themselves from Russia now more than ever when this war was started to prevent that exact thing from happening epic fail

losing more than they gain is losing failing to meet their key objectives is losing Russia can hold unto very little of it gains and if all it wanted was land access to the Crimea then explain all the forces near Kiev were about they weren't trying to nibble away a little bit of Ukraine they were trying to take the whole thing they wanted a pro-Russian Ukraine and have insured the continued existence of anti-Russian Ukraine which they were trying to prevent

what are you talking about? you mock my English then cobble together this gibberish? projection is a helluva drug