I certainly do not envy the situation on your side of the ocean, since just watching from far away things seem to be incredibly fucked. I hope you can find some solution that doesn’t include becoming even worse dystopian hell or devastate everything, especially since the rest of the world will still take a hit too… But yeah I am not a person that has an opinion about that, that matters.
I’m assuming there’s more going on in the talks of European leaders right now, but it’s not just revealed. At least they seem to be finally waking up to the realization that USA is not an ally anymore yeah, not as long as your recent disaster of a leadership is in power. Ukraine is holding out pretty well right now all things considered, they’ve gotten a lot of internal damage done with bringing the war closer to many russians by their drone strikes. I don’t know will Putin crumble before he succumbs to old age, but his position is growing weaker as things stand.
The only way Russia stops it’s warring though really is if it breaks internally and the russian imperialism - that drives the invasions and genocides - is eradicated. Any ceasefire or stop to the war in Ukraine just means they will use the time to gather their resources for a new attack to somewhere, even if it takes some years. And the only way I can see Russia ever being free of the imperialism, is if it fully breaks internally into independent states. No outside force can help with that, that would just give a convenient enemy to blame, and let them continue with the imperialism even if temporarily hindered
It’s pretty shitty over here because it’s a slow boil. It feels like Trump has cranked up the speed but we’ve been heading this way a while, and it’s been so normalized that every escalation isn’t a surprise, we as individuals who are disgusted by it are really powerless to do anything about it because our institutions are corrupt and between the cops, the courts, and our hateful neighbors, a one person stand against the injustice isn’t going to achieve anything. It like you pointed out with Russia, unless it starts breaking at a state to state level, there’s not much that can be done to break the federal power. We’re far too big, far too populous, far too resource rich, far too isolated, far too powerful and important to the current global economy to ignore, and the people in power know that so they just keep doing as they please.
I’m hopeful that our midterms this fall will be the breaking point, the final straw that removes all doubt for both foreign and domestic leaders to recognize America is cooked because they’re going to rig this election as a trial run to ensure they’ve got it sealed to rig the next presidential election. Boycotting our products and encouraging your leaders to withdraw from trade with us is working, the cost of living and the quality of life most of us working class folks enjoyed is skyrocketing and hurting us. But that’s what it takes. Make our privileges suffer and hopefully it’ll turn into enough discontent that eventually manifests as a revolt. I have a slight hope for us. For all our acceptance of populist tyranny our self-mythos of rugged individuality, self-determination, glorification of violence, and personal gun collections is bound to come to a climax at some point. That’s the difference between us and Russia, I really hope for our sake and the world’s sake we don’t end up like that.
It is depressing things turned out this way, thanks for giving more context of the situation on your side of the ocean to this internet rando. USAs been on my personal boycott list for a while now, with countries like China and Israel… it is truly a sad state of affairs I even have that list.
I certainly do not envy the situation on your side of the ocean, since just watching from far away things seem to be incredibly fucked. I hope you can find some solution that doesn’t include becoming even worse dystopian hell or devastate everything, especially since the rest of the world will still take a hit too… But yeah I am not a person that has an opinion about that, that matters.
I’m assuming there’s more going on in the talks of European leaders right now, but it’s not just revealed. At least they seem to be finally waking up to the realization that USA is not an ally anymore yeah, not as long as your recent disaster of a leadership is in power. Ukraine is holding out pretty well right now all things considered, they’ve gotten a lot of internal damage done with bringing the war closer to many russians by their drone strikes. I don’t know will Putin crumble before he succumbs to old age, but his position is growing weaker as things stand.
The only way Russia stops it’s warring though really is if it breaks internally and the russian imperialism - that drives the invasions and genocides - is eradicated. Any ceasefire or stop to the war in Ukraine just means they will use the time to gather their resources for a new attack to somewhere, even if it takes some years. And the only way I can see Russia ever being free of the imperialism, is if it fully breaks internally into independent states. No outside force can help with that, that would just give a convenient enemy to blame, and let them continue with the imperialism even if temporarily hindered
It’s pretty shitty over here because it’s a slow boil. It feels like Trump has cranked up the speed but we’ve been heading this way a while, and it’s been so normalized that every escalation isn’t a surprise, we as individuals who are disgusted by it are really powerless to do anything about it because our institutions are corrupt and between the cops, the courts, and our hateful neighbors, a one person stand against the injustice isn’t going to achieve anything. It like you pointed out with Russia, unless it starts breaking at a state to state level, there’s not much that can be done to break the federal power. We’re far too big, far too populous, far too resource rich, far too isolated, far too powerful and important to the current global economy to ignore, and the people in power know that so they just keep doing as they please.
I’m hopeful that our midterms this fall will be the breaking point, the final straw that removes all doubt for both foreign and domestic leaders to recognize America is cooked because they’re going to rig this election as a trial run to ensure they’ve got it sealed to rig the next presidential election. Boycotting our products and encouraging your leaders to withdraw from trade with us is working, the cost of living and the quality of life most of us working class folks enjoyed is skyrocketing and hurting us. But that’s what it takes. Make our privileges suffer and hopefully it’ll turn into enough discontent that eventually manifests as a revolt. I have a slight hope for us. For all our acceptance of populist tyranny our self-mythos of rugged individuality, self-determination, glorification of violence, and personal gun collections is bound to come to a climax at some point. That’s the difference between us and Russia, I really hope for our sake and the world’s sake we don’t end up like that.
It is depressing things turned out this way, thanks for giving more context of the situation on your side of the ocean to this internet rando. USAs been on my personal boycott list for a while now, with countries like China and Israel… it is truly a sad state of affairs I even have that list.