World Politics Thread

Imagine the British Empire with the surveillance and mass data collection facilities modern day China has. We’d all still be swearing fealty to the pedo protector family.

www.theguardian.com/world/video/2022/feb/25/ukrainian-woman-sunflower-seeds-russian-soldiers-video

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mil.ru still seems to be down.

Anonymous have been doing some pretty stellar work the last couple of days. Taking down RT and hacking the Russian MoD.

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I don’t understand.

Ukraine don’t look like they’d need that much help to stop the troops which makes it e even safer for them. They’re taking on the 4th largest military in the world on their own and doing far better than they should.

The rest of the world? Stopping Russia advertising on Facebook and blocking some banks.

I know escalation is the concern but the politicians should still be ashamed of themselves.

I don't really know what the solution is, but what we are doing clearly isn't good enough.

I understand the reticence to send troops in but we should be arming Ukraine to the max while making Putin an utter pariah.

I think the fact that many of the solutions seem so toothless, is because the actual question of what to do is not easy. Diplomacy is fucking hard.

So to me it seems a bit weird to say "you politicians should be ASHAMED, we're not DOING enough, we need to do SOMETHING" when you literally have no suggestion as to what they should be doing instead, or what they might be doing without feeling the need to broadcast it all across the headlines. I don't think there's much appetite in our countries for military intervention, because... you know... Iraq. Afghanistan. We armed the resistance in Afghanistan, look how that turned out!

If it helps, we're also doing nothing to resolve at least half a dozen horrific conflicts around the world, ones that don't have much to do with Russia.

Some conflict around the world is not comparable with this. Things needed to be done years ago about this, it’s too late now.

Implying leaders can’t be criticised because we can’t solve it is a ridiculous content. Diplomacy is hard, and look at who we have had over the last few years doing that.

Of course you can criticise them, everyone makes mistakes.

But what do you do if literally every option on the table is a shit sandwich in some way? Because that's what diplomacy often is, and the people who say otherwise are deluded.

Sorry, but to me the DO SOMETHING attitude usually means "hey we're all out of ideas, let's just go to war". And I'm extremely wary about that.

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3500 is a crazy number of losses when the combined Coalition losses in Afghanistan over 20 years are roughly that